This article is intended for those pragmatically focused on growing mainstream sustainable payments businesses now. If you want to consider sexy or outside chance plays, then perhaps this is not for you. This article lists what we see as the top key payments industry value add initiatives for the next few years, and lists…
Read more from our PayX analysts from Day 2 of Innovation Project 2016 Fireside chat with Charlie Scharf – CEO – Visa • The kinds of services they’ve delivered for many years to Issuers, they now need to direct their attention to merchants and do a better job by working with these one by…
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 EMV: U.S. Won’t Make October Deadline What will the next era of payments look like? – PayX Payment and Fraud Trends to Look…
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have changed the way web applications are built. In the past it used to take months to build a service. Now, through the use of API platforms, these services can be integrated in a matter of minutes. This means that APIs have become more and…
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 and loyalty, and get back to a value-add growth path…
Apple continues to hit the rumour mill. The latest article on CNET made me comment with the following: “The question to me is not whether Apple will expand their payments capability, as that seems inevitable, but more the question is whether Apple will dare to step into the open payments ecosystem or stay with their…
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 CloudZync launches mobile wallet New UK Payments Council report paints picture of 2022 payments PayPal – Leave your wallet at home and pay…
Mobile Payment 2015 [infographic]Compliments of Mobile Payments Today
Total Payments have posted a list of what they see as their top 10 posts of 2013 – so far! They have some really interesting and varied posts so we thought we’d share them with you too! 10. Top mPOS Players in Asia 9. What Do Mobile Bank Users Want in the Future? 8. Dave…
According to Wikipedia, a tipping point is ‘a point in time when a group —or a large number of group members— rapidly and dramatically changes its behaviour by widely adopting a previously rare practice.’ In a PayX blog in December 2012 we talked about Mobile payments reaching a tipping point – ‘maybe we have reached…