No more credit cards, pay with your smile – Industry roundup: 18 May
by CTMfile
Fastest growing fintech, Synergistic collaboration, 5 partnerships with DBS, $100 million risk-sharing facility, biometric facial recognition.
Card Payments at POS
Background
The use of payment cards is growing faster worldwide than any other major payment system. In many developed countries, by value, payment cards are used for the majority of payments at point of sale…
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Industry roundup: 27 January
by Graham Buck
US addresses chip shortage; Trio unite on trade finance; LiquidX’s first securitisation facility; Semiconductor ETF from HSBC AM; BNPL market grows
Industry roundup: 3 January
by CTMfile
Purchasing cards on rise, digital peso by 2024, Bank South Pacific enables FX transactions between digital and Islamic banks, Small business struggles
Industry roundup: 20 October
by Jack Large
Store automation hots up; new Green Financial Centre Index; Is ‘Crypto’ a Risk?
Industry roundup: 4 October
by Jack Large
News in brief, featuring Pandora Papers kickback; BigDaddy new POS system, and WhatsApp payments in India
Worldline to provide WhatsApp Business API services
by Jack Large
Worldline’s messaging solutions will build and automate conversations between businesses and clients worldwide through WhatsApp
Industry Roundup
by Jack Large
EPA’s Whitepaper on Project Financial Crime, Worldline enables UnionPay acceptance in Nordic, Bank Green Pledges
Is this the start of local countries fighting back in payment systems?
by Jack Large
Nepal and South Korea seek independence from global payment schemes and monopolies
How 5G will shake up global payments and benefit businesses
by Ben Poole
Verizon Business and Mastercard are partnering to bring 5G to the global payments industry.
Where treasurers see the value in request to pay
by Ben Poole
A Euro Banking Association report surveyed corporates from 20 countries to see how their companies would use request to pay.
Payment systems: cards are only part of the story, you need whole picture locally
by Jack Large
Globally payment cards keep on expanding, but the vital variations are local
On the fifth day of Christmas my guru sent me advice on how to:
by Jack Large
Optimise AND integrate your payments and collections
Collecting payments: is really about unified commerce NOT just payments
by Jack Large
Make your customers’ journey a pleasure: fit in with how your customers do business AND use all your customer data, THEN focus on reducing costs
New commercial payments options released by Visa and BBVA
by Ben Poole
Both firms have launched solutions designed to improve the corporate B2B payments experience.
Payment cards cost way too much and it’s getting worse (up 5%-16% in 2019)
by Jack Large
The BRC and other UK trade bodies are calling for action to tackle excessive card costs
COVID-19 and the impact on digital payments
by Ben Poole
Two new reports consider the effect that the pandemic is having on cash and payments behaviour.
Payments Update: Rows and new technologies drive the industry forward
by Jack Large
Payment card rows continue; new technologies and processes are used to fight COVID-19
Card companies build on initial COVID-19 response
by Ben Poole
Mastercard and American Express have come out with new initiatives in the past week.
CTMcast - 19 March 2020: Review of key recent posts and more on Coronavirus crisis
by Jack Large
Jack and Ben reviewed last week’s stories and the current COVID-19 crisis
CTMblog: Coronavirus realities? SCA adoption; GRC; Investing today
by Jack Large
How bad will Coronavirus really be; SCA adoption; GRC programmes; Collection letters; Investing in long term; Time for outsourcing?
MultiSafepay and “Request to Pay”: open banking comes of age
by Jack Large
MultiSafepay piloting Deutsche Bank’s Request to Pay solution, a first step in creation of a pan-European scheme for online payments.
Taking the paying out of life and business
by Jack Large
Payment systems disappear as services and ecosystems takeover
Santander Group agrees to acquire merchant services company Elavon México
by Ben Poole
The group will provide acquiring and payment services to merchants, enabled by its global merchant platform.
CTMcast - 13 February 2020 : Review of key recent posts
by Jack Large
Jack and Ben were joined on this CTMcast by Bruce Lynn, Managing Partner, The Financial Executives Consulting Group