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Jack Momose CEO at Degica
The Japanese market is becoming increasingly popular among western companies, fuelled by its large, wealthy population and strong perception of western goods. Yet it’s a market known for being difficult to enter, not least due to its very different culture and and the high demands of its consumers. But can technology – and, in particular, payment t...
21 January 2022 /payments
David Maisey CEO at MultiPay Global Solutions Ltd
The battle lines have been drawn, but which side will back down first is still to be decided. Now in its third week, the spat caused by Amazon’s announcement that it would stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the UK from January 19th, 2022, due to the high fees the card provider places on transactions has got the payments world talking. Once...
07 December 2021 /payments
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
ISO 20022 is coming. The new global messaging standard for payments systems is generally agreed to be a good thing for the banking industry – the Bank of England’s consultation on the plans showed respondents were “largely supportive”. Indeed, as the UK’s central bank notes, ISO 20022 is designed to create a globally consistent financial messagin...
09 November 2021 /payments /regulation
Akhil Rao Director at Nth Exception
As a common business language for the financial marketplace, ISO 20022 is firmly positioned as a unifier for new and contrasting FinTech innovations, such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Smart Contract (SC), and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Considered the de facto, universal business language for financial industry initiative...
06 September 2021 /payments /retail
Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3
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 cannot be easily patched and upgraded. As a result, weaknesses can remain in a system for a significant stretch of time. It is not surprising that 6...
04 August 2021 /security /payments
Jaime Lowe Sales Director at UTP Group
The UK has reported almost 14 consecutive days of falling Covid case numbers, tumbling from over 45,000 cases a day to below 25,000 cases as of yesterday. This is in sharp contrast to the predictions made by certain experts who believed daily cases could climb as high as 500,000. While the Prime Minister has urged caution in spite of the good news...
02 August 2021 /payments
Retired Member
The push to the modernization of payments is not a recent phenomenon. Financial institutions and intermediaries have regularly been moving through rounds of improvement; but, this time, the pace of transformation, its scope, and impact are unprecedented. Drivers of the Modernization We have noticed two primary drivers for this dramatic movement. T...
25 July 2021 /payments /retail
Gabe McGloin Head of Business Development EMEA at Verifi at Verifi Inc
The digitisation of commerce has escalated the need for card-not-present (CNP) businesses to bring proactive customer communication to the fore. From digital receipts to high-tech AI chatbots, sellers have more options than ever to interact with customers. Not only will embracing these efforts heighten transparency, but also improve customer servi...
22 July 2021 /payments /crime
The recent news that the iconic ‘Blankety Blank’ game show was returning to our screens under the masterful Bradley Walsh brought back many great memories. Originally a firm family favourite on the BBC back in the 1980’s under fellow Irishman, Sir Terry Wogan and again reprised under the always funny Les Dawson, the premise of the game was a fun qu...
19 July 2021 /crime
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Treasury management or more generally Supply Chain Finance management is still a neglected topic at many SMEs. While large international corporations make the investment into expensive treasury management solutions (often part of their ERP solution) and even setup their own In-House Banks, this is considerably more difficult for the mid-corp segmen...
01 June 2021 /payments
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