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Rafael Lourenco

Rafael Lourenco EVP at ClearSale

How fraud prevention is costing e-commerce businesses millions - and customer satisfaction

According to a new report by Aite Group, merchant losses to e-commerce fraud are projected to grow to $6.4 billion by 2021. Fraud is a persistent and increasingly sophisticated threat to retailer profits, and that is concerning enough in itself – but merchants need to be wary that fraud-busting can also backfire and cost them even more. ‘False dec...

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Mobile-Enabled Consumers Love To Use Prepaid Cards

Consumers are looking for convenient, immediate, and frictionless payment experiences that simplify everyday tasks, transactions, and routines. As a result, more and more consumers are turning to mobile payments. MOBILE PAYMENT USE IS ON THE RISE 95 percent of Americans own mobile phones and approximately 80 percent of those are smartphones, acco...

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Richard Warren

Richard Warren Partner at FirstPartner

Why PSD2 SCA is a Challenging Journey for the Travel Sector

The decision by many regulators not to enforce PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) on electronic payments on 14th September has given valuable breathing space to e-commerce and payments players. However, the travel and hospitality sector will find compliance extremely challenging even with the benefit of proposed 18 month managed implementat...

/payments /regulation

Ron Delnevo

Ron Delnevo Chair at UK Cash Supply Alliance

UK Post Office Access To Cash - Setting Back Service Standards By Half A Century?

More stories this week in Britain about the potential for Post Offices to replace ATMs as far as the supply of cash to the public is concerned. There is a heavy irony in Post Offices now being touted as substitutes for ATMs in the UK. Way back in 1967, the Scot John Shepherd-Barron invented the ATM because he was frustrated that bank branches were...

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Paul Shumsky

Paul Shumsky CEO & Founder at @Finpace.tech

Why Ecommerce Business Needs a Mobile Wallet in 2024

The retailers that stand to gain the most ground in today’s fast-evolving industry are those that build a streamlined online and in-store shopping experience that is second to none - and digital wallets offer a powerful means of doing this. Shopping is as much about the comfort and ease of the retail experience as it is about what is on offer onlin...

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Paul Marcantonio

Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay

The Potential and Reality of Cryptocurrency in Video Gaming

Cryptocurrency promises to change the world, but it might start with games. The ubiquity of microtransactions in modern video games makes the industry ripe for a crypto insurgence. With gamers spending an average of $85 each on the (free-to-play) game Fortnite, generating $300 million a month for the game’s creators, cryptocurrency luminaries are ...

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Saara Day

Saara Day Head of Marketing at Beyond

What does it take to win the payments transformation race?

The new report “The Payments Transformation Race: Criteria for Success” from Aite and Icon Solutions identified that banks that have a clear and robust payments transformation plan are more profitable than their competitors – effectively widening the gap between the winners and losers in the transformation race. So how does a bank become one of th...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Mari-Anne Bayliss

Mari-Anne Bayliss Director, Payment and Fraud Solutions, EMEA at CyberSource, a Visa solution

The Merchant View: Let's Please All Agree on SCA Enforcement Timelines

Since the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Opinion in June on the strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), I've been thinking and talking about it with colleagues, peers and — especially — with merchants. In particular, we've been discussing the opportunity given to nationa...

/payments /regulation The future of Payments in Europe

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Payroll Card Users Mights Not Be Who You Think They Are

Payroll card users might not be who you think they are, according to a new report by Mercator Advisory Group, a news and reporting leader in the U.S. prepaid debit card market since 2004, and in Canada since 2014. The report, titled U.S., Canada, and U.K. Prepaid Markets: Similarities and Differences, provides a comparison of these markets includ...

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Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

The UnBanked don’t need Banks!

UnBanked – They don’t need Banks! It's SIBOS!! For me this the best time of my year. I have been to 17 of the last 22 SIBOS’s. For some, their event is the Super Bowl, the Olympics or FIBA Basketball Championship or for many more it’s the World Cup, but me, SIBOS is my Super Bowl. This year many people are talking about SWIFT falling behind, at th...

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