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Alessio Balduini

Alessio Balduini CEO and Founder at Credit Data Research

Open banking: Enabling SMEs to drive recovery in a post-Covid economy

The latest data from Bank of England projects a contraction of 14% of GDP on an annual basis with an astounding 25% contraction in Q2 alone. This could result in a loss of 15-20% - or up to a million - Small and Medium Enterprises. Needless to say, these are unprecedented and troubling figures. The graph below is unique as it is based on open bank...

/payments /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Are banks that run on legacy systems able to compete with their digital counterparts?

Now, more than ever, the disparity between the legacy systems still used by some traditional banks, and the newer systems used by challenger banks, is stark. It goes without saying that systems developed back in the 70’s were not designed for our modern world. Legacy systems are not adaptable. How could they be? Those who designed them had no idea...

/payments Banking Architecture

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Contextual Commerce: Paving the Way for Contextual Banking

When it comes to e-commerce, frictionless has been the name of the game for several years now. The rise of in-app purchases makes it clear — consumers want to stay within the channels they’re in, and they want purchases to be quick, easy and convenient. After all, more than half of consumers have made a purchase directly through a social media pla...

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Gerard Hergenroeder

Gerard Hergenroeder Retired IBMer and Banking Executive at Payments Shark

An opportunity to transform the credit card world

It has been awhile since I last posted a blog. I am sure everyone is thinkling about potential credit losses as a result of rising unemployment rates. In the U.S. it now over 15%. During the great mortgage recession in 2007 loan losses peaked at 10%. It took almost 10 years to get the loss rate below 5%. Just prior to the recesssion losses averaged...

/payments /retail Futuristic Banking

Igor Tomych

Igor Tomych Founder/CEO at Dashdevs

Stripe is Rewriting the Card Issuing Business

The years of playing both sides of the fence and being torn between the online and offline worlds have been boiled down to a few months by the pandemic. Unfortunately, most businesses haven't been ready for this. Consequently, for offline conservatives and digital newbies, the current disruption turns into a real challenge. Setting up a fully digi...

/payments /wholesale

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Making the EHR Transition to Telehealth

The tug of war between legacy systems and more modern platforms continues, as the digitization of many medical practices and hospitals across the globe upends the status quo. While the transition to newer systems has been inevitable, many are facing an unprecedented upgrade within a short time span in order to support telehealth initiatives. As th...

/payments /devops Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Top 5 Digital Banking Myths: Community Banks Need to Abandon

Digital payments are already here, whether we are ready for it or not. With every passing day, there are FinTech companies continually pushing the digital payment envelope. New ideas and services are created all the time. We also see nontraditional FinTech companies enter the digital payments space, examples are Facebook and Apple (just to name a ...

/payments Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Laura Francis

Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3

The New Reality: Directly connect to SEPA Instant without the need for a Central Bank

What do a Fintech, a Tier1 bank and a non-bank PSP have in common? The committment and drive to make payments faster, easier and more cost effective for the global financial community. This includes non-banks. The possibility of collaboration between these parties was once thought impossible but today, by utilising close partnerships with Tier 1 b...

/payments SEPA and European Payments

Chris Jones

Chris Jones Managing Director at PSE Consulting

Acquirer Top Tips for SMBs to Keep Trading in a Covid-19 Lockdown

UK acquirers recognise their smaller business customers are facing an unprecedented set of challenges. “Whether you’re a business that has relied on face-to-face shops and you want help setting up a website, or you’re looking for advice on how to keep your business and its customers safe from fraudsters, we are here and ready to help,” commented R...

/payments /covid-19

Uri Rivner

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

7 Cybercrime predictions for a global virus outbreak

If I had to pick one community that is definitely going to thrive during a global virus outbreak, it's online fraudsters. Check out these seven predictions about incoming cyber crime... An unprecedented global virus outbreak is just what the cyberfraudster ordered. Confusion, chaos, and abrupt changes in digital user behavior can help the sharp-min...

/payments /crime Online Banking

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