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Reed Luhtanen Executive Director at U.S. Faster Payments Council
Dialogue is an integral part of our society. Real, meaningful dialogue can be the driver behind collaborative action that can bring out change, understanding, cooperation, confidence, and more. And in today’s environment with now-daily conversations about issues that are core to our humanity – systemic racism and oppression, health and safety conc...
17 August 2020 /payments /retail
Sunil Jhamb Founder and CEO at WLPayments
The recent much publicised twitter hack is another example why for the CIOs and CTOs of banks and PSPs, fraud and security are ever-present concerns in the back of their mind. Protecting both their own organisations and their merchants from the threat of cybercrime is a truly business-critical challenge – and one in which the stakes are always ch...
24 July 2020 /payments
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier Founder and CEO at iBanFirst
Increases in fraud during COVID-19 The upsurge in online fraud attempts during the COVID-19 lockdown is part of a long-term upward trend, internationally, observed in all sectors. According to PWC, 47% of businesses worldwide have been victims of fraud in the past 24 months. Action Fraud, the UK’s National Fraud and Cybercrime Reporting Centre has...
21 July 2020 /payments
A record 33% of UK purchases took place online in May, according to the Office for National Statistics. Yet with average conversion rates at less than 3%, firms are still missing out on billions of potential income. The likes of better, persuasive sales copy on websites can help firms profit more from the fast-rising interest in e-commerce in the p...
10 July 2020 /payments
Retired Member
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...
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
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