In our estimation there are somewhere in the region of 700 banks looking to change their payments infrastructure. This change has been driven by the M&A activity of banks, processors and payments vendors, leading payments solutions attracting “maturity” status and the pace of innovation within the payments market. Processors capable of delivering a lower risk…
It is very easy to say that the Alternative Payments Methods; Mobile, Square, iZettle, e-Commerce, Cloud Wallets etc., are approaching mass and will “replace” cards in the future. Appropriate historical analogies could be: “Cards are the end of Cash” – a statement recurring for about 40 years, or even the “Chip is the end of…
Recent news reinforces that the Payments Industry is continuing towards a full blown disruption change cycle. Within this cycle massive opportunities abound, rule books are rewritten and unfortunately a trail of casualties are left by those who didn’t adapt quickly. Refreshingly this month, several leading organisations announced signing long term agreements in moves to build…
For many years the payments industry has been largely stable and predictable; today the industry is changing at a pace never seen before. Historically industries such as Telecoms and Automotive have experienced very similar change described as “The Disruptive Change Cycle”. Essentially the dynamics of customer & market demand change so fast and unpredictably, that…