243 Results from 2020, /payments
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In a time of real-time, instant payments, it is strange to see that companies providing pre-paid gift vouchers are still massively being created and continue to grow. At first sight buying such a gift voucher has only disadvantages, as it converts liquid currency to a product, with less favorable qualities (i.e. can only be consumed in certain shop...
16 June 2020 /payments The future of Payments in Europe
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has already led to massive changes in business and consumer behaviour, is accelerating the adoption of digital payments and the interest in real-time payments across the globe. During a recent webinar we organized to discuss ACI’s Global Payments Report ‘Prime Time for Real-Time’, 36 percent of attendees said that they...
12 June 2020 /payments /covid-19
Gustav Korobov Senior Sales Executive - Core Banking platform at Advapay
At a time, when banks are finalizing their Open APIs, fintechs are developing their superb applications, and consumers are thinking whether they need Open Banking or not, I decided to share my thoughts on what the opportunities and risks will Open Banking bring for all market participants. Open Banking is a banking initiative that was developed to...
12 June 2020 /payments /retail Fintech
Haohan Xu CEO at Apifiny
The race is on to reinvent settlement. As customer demands for faster settlement times increase, and new technologies come online, banks are under pressure to meet their clients’ heightened needs It's been more than 20 years since the Internet’s arrival transformed the way people access information, manifested in search engines that deliver the wor...
11 June 2020 /payments /startups SWIFT Matters
Retired Member
The global gaming industry has been growing rapidly in recent years and continues to flourish; it’s predicted to be worth more than $565 billion by 2022. That’s an increase of more than $100 billion since 2018, which means the industry will grow by more than a fifth in the coming years. There are a number of factors from the last year in particula...
11 June 2020 /payments /startups Fintech
Last summer, experts predicted that global ecommerce sales would increase by 16% in 2020. Of course, they were not able to predict COVID-19 crisis and the impact it would have on consumer behaviour. A new stay at home economy has emerged as businesses embrace digital sales channels to meet evolving consumer needs. Months after many countries impl...
10 June 2020 /payments /covid-19 Fintech
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
There has been a lot of hype about conversational commerce. Many say that this will be the future of how people will interact with technology. In question, however, is how will technology be able to understand us and respond? Of course we should be able to talk to technology, like we do with other humans. One can see how brands have embraced this ...
09 June 2020 /payments
How does a business owner choose a banking plan? It’s not only special features and attractive rates that drive the customer’s choice: complete and ethical visual representation on a bank’s website is absolutely crucial to increase conversion and build trust. Unfortunately, this is something many banks neglect to this day, using opaque – and somet...
09 June 2020 /payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Ray Brash CEO/CoFounder/Investor/CFO/Payment Expert at SESANTIPAY ADVISORY
During his 1962 State of the Union Address, John F. Kennedy declared: “The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”. While the original philosophy behind the sentiment wasn’t intended for organisations, per se, it’s an apt quote when reflecting on fintechs in light of COVID-19. We are all aware that the pandemic has shut down our n...
09 June 2020 /payments /covid-19 Fintech
Mike Laven CEO at Currencycloud
As many parents of adult children do, I recently offered to help my son manage his mortgage application. And, while I was of course delighted to see everything go through in the end, part of me wished I hadn’t got involved. The bank’s processes were ugly and cumbersome, with seemingly endless paperwork, various mobile portals and old-world ways of...
09 June 2020 /payments /covid-19 Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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