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Instant payments are the ‘new normal’. The last decade saw a ramp-up in adoption as regulation, customer expectation and technology dovetailed to create immediate, 24/7 demand for financial services. This means that banks and payment service providers (PSPs) who rely solely on speed of payments as a competitive differentiator will struggle to get a...
30 June 2020 /payments
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
There were some high profile announcements of WhatsApp payments available in Brazil (https://tcrn.ch/3dzlnC9) recently. Anybody interested in chat commerce sat up and took notice. Some also tried out Facebook Pay, the payments service WhatsApp owner Facebook launched last year. I can say with some certainty, we all were excited about the possibili...
Sunil Jhamb Founder and CEO at WLPayments
The payments market opportunity Ecommerce is big business. Emarketer has predicted that global ecommerce sales will reach $5 trillion by 2021, following sustained annual growth rates of more than 20%. In turn, this flourishing market generates billions of dollars of fees for the payments companies that enable it. Little wonder, then, that an array...
17 June 2020 /payments /retail
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Bond-Fires of the Vanities, The US Government plan to save the Bond Market, Many of you may remember the 1987 Tom Wolfe book that became the 1990 movie “Bonfires of the Vanities”. The story is about a Wall Street hotshot who watches as his high-flying lifestyle goes down in flames. The origin goes back to Florence, Italy, 1497, when the spiritua...
08 June 2020 /wealth /crypto
Ron Delnevo Chair at UK Cash Supply Alliance
One of the aspects of the current Coronavirus Pandemic that makes my blood boil is the tendency of the advocates of particular payment methods to claim they are somehow safer for the public to use for in-person payments. Sometimes such claims are supported by "research" findings or even the words of a handy "academic", presumabl...
18 April 2020 /payments /covid-19
Peter Davidson Business Consultant at Self Employed
The Coronavirus pandemic is already seeing many tech firms direct their employees to work from home. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Amazon.com. Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Twitter Inc, (NYSE:TWTR), and Facebook Inc.(NASDAQ:FB) are some of the tech firms that have recommended or mandated working from home. Improvements in communication and collaboration wo...
18 March 2020 /payments
From being a cash-oriented economy, India has transformed its payment sector to a large extent. The boom in digital payments is attributed to various factors like smartphone penetration and progressive regulatory policies. Especially after the Government of India passed the Demonetization Act in 2016, both the urban and rural population have adopt...
02 March 2020 /payments
CRYPTO or GOLD It’s the start of a new year and a new decade! I am feeling great because I am back in my twenties again! As I recall my twenties and early banking career, I realize how my thinking has changed. During those young and fun filled days I overlooked some important questions. How do I increase, preserve and protect the wealth that I am c...
09 February 2020 /retail /crime
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
In the not-so-distant future, payments are expected to become more or less invisible as our financial processes become more sophisticated and frictionless. Invisible payments take physical payment methods such as cash, debit and credit cards, and wearables completely out of the equation – creating a convenient and speedy experience. We have alread...
13 January 2020 /payments
Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay
Though it may seem like everything in the payments space is geared towards boosting conversion, i.e. the amount of times a potential customers completes the intended action of clicking “buy” – and this is indeed the case – I’m here today to tell you about three specific ways in which payment technology can raise the conversion rate, i.e. the amoun...
25 November 2019 /payments
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