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Laura Francis

How microservices are changing the game for operational resilience and cyber security in payments

Cloud adoption among banks has accelerated exponentially in recent years with views now pivoting towards seeing cloud as central to resiliency challenges. Unlike cloud-based systems, legacy technology...

04 Aug 2021
The Payments Business
Laura Francis

Why Cloud Payment Processing is the answer to scaling challenges at banks

The global impact of Covid on payments has seen a surge in the use of contactless cards and account-to-account transactions, creating a giant pressure point for payment processing. Banks and financia...

27 Jul 2021
Platform Payment Technology
Laura Francis

Why Enterprise Banks Must Adopt Innovations in Payment Technologies

The global rise of digital banks, including Monzo, Starling, N26, Volt, Airwallex and Revolut, has continued at pace and as a result, all have successfully managed to acquire sizable customer bases si...

30 Jun 2021
Platform Payment Technology
Laura Francis

Minimising the Risk of Transforming Core Payments Technology

Implementing technical change will always incur risks. But, by putting the right measures in place will ensure that these are kept to a minimum. In their latest report, the Financial Conduct Authorit...

04 May 2021
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Laura Francis

Is Open Banking all it claims to be?

Open banking is becoming more widespread. The UK’s OBIE (Open Banking Implementation Entity) reported that the number of open banking users doubled from January to September 2020. With the EU looking...

23 Apr 2021
Open Banking
Laura Francis

Why financial institutions are banking on cloud-native technology to stay competitive

Digital banking has exploded, fueled by growing digital confidence, technology advancement and new, agile challenger banks but also a global pandemic creating an almost overnight shift in how both bus...

17 Nov 2020
Cloud Banking out of the Box
Laura Francis

Future-proofing your payments infrastructure

Any chief technology officer (CTO), in any financial institution big or small will tell you that the challenges in payment processing are the same. After all, a payment is a payment and people want th...

23 Sep 2020
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Laura Francis

The future of payments is in the cloud

Why now is the time to move away from legacy payments infrastructure Technology is moving at a remarkable pace – by the time something has been built and launched it already feels outdated. So it may ...

13 Jul 2020
The future of Payments in Europe
Laura Francis

SME banking in times of uncertainty

How Covid has accelerated the Fintech/Bank collaboration model to become the new normal In these uncertain times, it is no secret that SMEs are some of the hardest hit by the economic impact of COVID...

22 Jun 2020
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Laura Francis

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 ...

05 May 2020
SEPA and European Payments
Laura Francis

SME Challenges in Cross Border payments

The economic scale of the SME market is substantial, contributing £2.0 trillion (52%) a year to the UK economy alone and growing. But for SMEs wanting to trade internationally, they’re met with highly...

20 Apr 2020
The future of Payments in Europe
Laura Francis

Accelerating innovation in financial services: Is Faster Payments doing enough?

The concept of real-time payment processing both from an operational and cost advantage is big news yet only 36% of all electronic payments in the UK are now via the Faster Payments Service (FPS)1. On...

14 Apr 2020
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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