UBER-ising Your Payments Customer Experiences – Key Success Criteria

Straight from Harvard…   PayX International recently was involved in the Innovation Project 2016 held at the Memorial Hall, Harvard University, in association with PYMNTS.com. The surroundings and architecture were magnificent and one marvels at the history and discussions and debates that must have taken

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Payments APIs – The last mile to realising the Holy Grail in Payments?

Recently, three of the world’s biggest financial services firms—Mastercard, Visa and Citi—have promised to ditch their insular approach and open up their platforms to partners. APIs in Payments has become the forefront of Bank strategies to not only retain but grow market share, grow traction

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Payments Industry adapts: VISA & Mastercard simplify US EMV – PayX Industry News – Issue 34

Our regular round up of the latest news in the Payments Industry. If you would like to receive our newsletter straight to your inbox, you can subscribe here     Top Stories Visa and MasterCard Support Common Solutions to Enable U.S. Chip Debit Routing North

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What’s in Your Wallet?

My kids gave me a new Union Jack wallet for Christmas, forcing me to answer the question in Capital One’s old adverts, “What’s in your wallet?” Capital One credit card (the advert worked!), personal debit card, business debit card, supermarket credit card, 2nd debit card,

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Interchange Fees – It’ll all end in Tiers!

If MasterCard’s analysis, published in their Insights paper 1Q2007, of the effects and outcomes of the RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) intervention into Interchange Fees (ICFs) back in 2002 is to be taken at face value then the prospects for European consumers using payment cards,

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If the Force is with the Mega Processors what price card scheme fees?

It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that the Global and Regional card payment processing organisations have their sights set, if not on world or territorial domination, certainly on ever increasing size and scale.  Where organic growth fails to deliver to aspirations, smaller operations are

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Card Issuers don’t refer for the fun of it

Both of the international card schemes Visa and MasterCard, include in their impressive array of member fee tariffs an assessment fee for Issuers that breach a percentage threshold of authorisation referral responses to authorisation requests received.  The percentage is 0.5% but that is incidental. Both

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Getting ‘back to core business’

Over the last 4 years we have seen the payments industry in “disruptive change”. Well established organisations have all been challenged by alternative players and all are moving through change cycle stages with varying degrees of speed and success. What appears to be most interesting

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Is it a complex world we live in ….. or is it a simple world made complex?

So a man walks into a shop and says to the shopkeeper “I’d like to buy that electric drill in your window and pay with my MasterCard”. “Certainly Sir”, the shopkeeper replies and starts to pack the goods. “Actually”, the customer says, “I’ve changed my

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So King Cash has now been deposed – Where now for ATMS?

With an amazing synchronicity following  my recent Webinar, where a discussion on ATM migration had also consider if cash was now not the payment method of choice – a press release ‘Is cash dying in Britain?’ was issued. This press release from Skrill states: ‘One

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