Banking

The evolution of payments: When size, speed, and change collide

Banking

The payment industry has three Rs: Rules, requirements, and regulations

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Billers

Fraudsters are developing sophisticated scams in the utility sector

Banking

The Invisible Synthetic Identity Heist

Billers

Tackling Sophisticated Fraud: Innovations and Approaches for a Secure Digital Future

Fraud has permeated numerous aspects of our lives, infiltrating the most routine activities and transactions, causing unease and uncertainty for many individuals. In fact, fraud-related losses in the U.S. topped $10 billion last year, up 14% from the previous year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Real-Time Payments

Banking

The 2024 global payments and fintech trends

野花社区 has been supporting real-time payments since 2005, processing hundreds of millions of payments monthly across 26 networks. We provide software solutions to participant banks and central banks, facilitating secure real-time payment processing and offering fraud protection services.

Banking

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Aunque los pagos inmediatos son una realidad desde hace muchos a帽os, no se puede negar que la transformaci贸n que supone el 鈥渢iempo real鈥 ha despegado en Latinoam茅rica a un ritmo vertiginoso. No obstante, la tasa de adopci贸n var铆a enormemente de un pa铆s a otro.

Billers

New Consumer Research Reveals Major New Cost Pressures in the Pipeline for Billers

or billers strategizing around payments innovation, it鈥檚 essential to understand consumer payments expectations and the wider financial pressures they might be facing.

Merchants

5 Ways Optimizing Reconciliation Boosts Merchants鈥 聽Financial Health

Every merchant must reconcile transactions, but not every reconciliation tool is the same. Outdated back-end platforms can result in merchants missing out on multiple performance gains, while an automated, orchestrated approach can put their business out in front.

Merchants

Long Live Digital Payments!

Good news for U.S. merchants of all kinds 鈥 money will be easier to spend than ever before through different means to digitize payments. Over the last 50 years, consumer spending habits have surged through the use of credit and debit cards and, more recently, the introduction of real-time payments and other alternative payment forms such as PayPal, Zelle and Venmo. U.S. market projections (see chart below) indicate that consumers will continue to adopt and expand usage of all non-check and non-cash payment types over the next five years.

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Global payment trends
As the world adopts real-time payments, how does your market stand to benefit?

Merchants

Are you coordinating or orchestrating payments?

Online payments are very complex, with multiple channels, payment types, processors, service providers, unique fraud and regulations that vary in every country. In-store complexities are even greater, with payment stacks often growing organically or through acquisitions instead of strategically.

Banking

SEPA one-leg out SCT Inst (OCT Inst) : a great opportunity for new international services

Payment Service Providers in Europe should start looking at the significant possibilities offered by the newest EPC rulebook on One-Leg Out SCT Inst, to develop new business propositions by providing effective international transaction processing to their retail and corporate customer base.

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Billers

Security meets convenience: Why mobile bill pay can become a key defense against fraud

The adoption of digital wallets has been growing around the world. Today in the U.S., digital wallets such as PayPal, Venmo and Square Cash are widely used alongside smartphone-native solutions like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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Banking

Historias de 茅xito de los principales sistemas de pagos inmediatos del mundo

En busca de las ventajas econ贸micas de unos pagos m谩s r谩pidos y eficaces, la mayor铆a de los mercados m谩s importantes ya cuentan con sistemas de pagos inmediatos o los est谩n desarrollando, por lo que la atenci贸n se est谩 centrando en impulsar su adopci贸n.

Merchants

7 ways payments orchestration is a game changer

As payments continues to play a starring role in competitive sales strategies, merchants are increasingly turning to payments orchestration to help them build better end-to-end customer experiences and meet increasingly demanding operational KPIs.

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Banking

Next-Generation Payments in Aotearoa, New Zealand: A new dawn for growth

The relatively small scale of the Aotearoa market may discourage a high level of capital investment in payments infrastructure seen in markets such as Australia. Yet that shouldn鈥檛 be an obstacle to creating a highly resilient, agile, secure, extensible and scalable next-generation payments system.