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The Payments Business

Share opinion and experience on how the payments landscape is changing and learn about the challenges and opportunities facing payments stakeholders in the future.

Max Kent

Max Kent VP of Global Procurement at Compleat Software

Taking Back Purchase Control as Inflation Soars

Max Kent – VP of Global Procurement at Compleat Software, the purchase to pay software house Already exceeding 9% in the UK, inflation is set to hit an eye-watering 11% before the end of the year, according to the Bank of England. That’s due to the huge hike in fuel, energy, food and raw material costs, in the wake of the pandemic, Brexit and the...

/payments /cloud

Mykyta Grechyna

Mykyta Grechyna 

New Ukraine’s Fintech Legislation: Embracing Innovations

This year the Law of Ukraine on Payment Services (“LPS”) enters into force marking a new chapter in the country’s financial business environment and regulation. LPS introduces description, framework of operation and regulation of contemporary financial technologies, including electronic money, payment networks and Central Bank Digital Currency (CB...

/payments

Donica Venter

Donica Venter 

Meeting Consumer Demand: How Omnichannel Payments are Changing the World

Technology has changed at an astounding pace over the two few years, especially for the payments industry. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the development of payment solutions far beyond what anyone could have expected. Omnichannel payments are changing the way businesses interact with customers, and the way customers interact with businesses. W...

/payments /markets

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Retired Member 

Supporting the growth of cryptocurrency transaction with payments

Providing seamless payment journey, with the options for customers to pay with their preferred local payment methods, is not only necessary for international crypto exchanges, but it is key to make trading easier and accelerate the speed and growth of crypto transactions. This, however, is easier said than done. Identifying all the major payment s...

/payments /crypto

Victor Zheng

Victor Zheng CEO at mx51

Banks must innovate now or they will be replaced by Big Tech

The next bank you sign up to may not be a bank at all. It could be Apple or Square, Adyen or even Stripe. If the writing isn’t on the wall already, big tech is coming after banking. What started in stealth almost a decade ago with the introduction of wallets in smartphones is now moving into payments, deposits and lending -- core banking businesse...

/payments /retail

Jamel Derdour

Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 - www.transact365.io

Protecting Merchants and Making Them More Profitable

The rise of e-commerce and global payment providers has transformed the way in which merchants are able to access emerging markets. By understanding the complex infrastructure of payments systems at a national and international level, providers leverage next generation technology to ensure transactions are facilitated securely and quickly. Howeve...

/payments /markets

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Retired Member 

5 Things You're Missing Out On When You Don't Accept Crypto Payments

The online payments ecosystem is in disruption, largely brought about by cryptocurrencies, the first of which was created over ten years ago. In February 2021, the Bitcoin exchange rate reached an all-time high of USD 33,000 per coin. Crypto payments are growing more common, and accepting cryptocurrency is no longer as difficult as it once was; it...

/payments /crypto

Akshay Grover

Akshay Grover CEO at Cellulant

Payment aggregation: bringing together the African economy

Africa’s vibrant economy and lack of significant legacy payment infrastructure have led to a curious phenomenon on the continent. On the one hand, it has given rise to an explosion of payment platforms and solutions designed to respond to the different needs of businesses and consumers on the continent – making the region a beacon of innovation in...

/payments /inclusion

Lynton Buxton

Lynton Buxton Marketing Manager at Parseq

When only a cheque will do…

When compact discs were first released in the 1980’s, people were amazed at the thought of digital music and it took some years for music listeners to think about replacing their vinyl records with CD’s. However, with the vinyl record consigned to history, step forward to today and over a fifth of all albums purchased in the UK is now vinyl. Resea...

/payments /crime

Luigi Wewege

Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank

8 Truths People Might Not Know About Offshore Banking (And Should)

Perhaps you’re interested in setting up an offshore bank account. However, one internet search is all it takes to find that there’s a lot of conflicting information about offshore banking. So, what’s true and what’s not? To help you answer that question, here are several basics about offshore banking that not everyone knows. Use these as a foundati...

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