The Payments Business

Founded by John Doyle
Group founded 28 Oct 2019
Posts 77
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Share opinion and experience on how the payments landscape is changing and learn about the challenges and opportunities facing payments stakeholders in the future.

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Jeremy Light

Big Brother is Watching You - Payment Systems, Surveillance Systems, Control Systems

1230 words, 4:50 min read An Orwellian Dystopia As more and more payments become digital, a key question for payment systems architects is how to preserve the privacy of their users. Without privacy, ...

29 Sep 2020
Joris Lochy

Payment contact management - Room for innovation

Executing payments has evolved considerably over the last years. While 25 years ago most payments were done by filling in a paper form, today almost all payments are initiated digitally via a web or m...

13 Sep 2020
Reed Luhtanen

Exploring QR Codes for Faster Payments

Around the world, QR codes continue to explode in popularity as a payments instrument. In China, over the past three years, QR code “scan-to-pay” solutions have grown 15-fold, reaching $1.3 trillion U...

25 Aug 2020
Reed Luhtanen

The Dialogue Driving the Faster Payments Interoperability Question

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...

17 Aug 2020
Sunil Jhamb

Staying in control of digital payments

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 o...

24 Jul 2020
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier

Protecting your business against bank transfer fraud

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...

21 Jul 2020
Sunil Jhamb

How payment evolution can drive conversions

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 po...

10 Jul 2020
Retired Member

5 ways to maximise the value of instant payments

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. ...

30 Jun 2020
Hannes Van Rensburg

Taking payments in chat to market

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...

30 Jun 2020
Sunil Jhamb

How to build and grow your payments business

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%....

17 Jun 2020
Chris Principe

Bond-Fires of the Vanities

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...

08 Jun 2020
Ron Delnevo

ALL In-Person Payments CAN Be Equally Safe During The Coronavirus Pandemic

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...

18 Apr 2020

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