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

Mobile Payment Fraud Verification

Merchants

Powering the world鈥檚 payments ecosystem with a best-in-class payments orchestration platform

Analyst firm Datos Insights recently released their Datos Matrix: Payment Orchestration Vendor Evaluation comparing payments orchestration vendors and named 野花社区鈥檚 merchant payments orchestration platform 鈥淏est in Class.鈥 The main scoring categories Datos used to analyze payment vendors were provider stability, client strength, client service, product features, and functionality.

Merchants

Navigating merchant payments with industry experts

Payments orchestration is a game-changing strategy that centralizes payment flows across multiple providers and systems, but not all solutions are built the same. As the global economy becomes increasingly digital, organizations face a significant shift in payment processing and management.

Merchants

Need a refreshing spike in summer sales? Follow Amazon鈥檚 lead

Traditionally, the summer is a slower time for retail, with sales in the U.S. typically centered around key holidays like Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day. In the summer of 2015, Amazon changed everything when it introduced Amazon Prime Day, its own all-purpose summer shopping holiday exclusively for Amazon Prime members. This helped the marketplace giant in two ways: it increased sales during a lull, and it provided an additional incentive to become an Amazon Prime member.

Merchants

Pay with my hand? No way!

While I was watching the news, a story came on about a new technology coming to the local Whole Foods where you could pay with your palm.

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Billers

How a Modern Payments Experience Can Help Credit Unions Gain and Retain Younger Members

I recently attended the 2024 America's Credit Unions Governmental Affairs Conference, where one of the speakers said something that caught my ear: Essentially, the younger demographic is not fully aware of the concept of a credit union, its unique characteristics compared to other financial entities and the reasons why they might want to consider banking with them.

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.

Prime time for real-time

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

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Merchants

The complete guide to merchant payments orchestration

Payments orchestration platforms typically provide businesses with a single place to monitor and manage multiple payment systems, payment providers and multiple payment methods, allowing merchants to offer customers a wider range of payment options, while simplifying the payment process on the back end.

Billers

Top 3 Consumer Bill Pay Insights From the Latest 野花社区 Speedpay Pulse Survey

Our latest bi-annual survey of consumers鈥 bill paying habits shows a large shift toward mobile adoption, indicating that Request to Pay is gaining traction. Plus, with faster payments more in demand than ever, the data reveals that 2022 is shaping up to be another year of big change for billers.

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Billers

Remote Customer Service Representatives Are Here To Stay 鈥 And So Are The Risks

The world has done a spectacular job of embracing remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of jobs 鈥 and millions of workers 鈥 that previously seemed to be anchored to the workplace or workstation have been liberated.

Billers

Speed Is Everything: Why Faster Payments Should Matter to Billers

Developing the best possible payments experience for customers should be top of mind for every biller, and yet, consumers鈥 expectations for a faster payments process have largely been unmet. A new 野花社区 Speedpay Pulse study reveals that if consumers don鈥檛 get what they want, they are willing to go elsewhere in order to get it.

Billers

10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022

While many are making their resolutions for the upcoming year, organizations of all types must resolve to increase their cybersecurity and vigilance in the face of new and expanding threats. Here are my top 10 cybersecurity predictions for the new year.

Billers

Billing and Payment Experts Share Their Top Two Predictions for 鈥22

With just a few days left in 2021, many consumers (and businesses) are ready to wrap up another challenging year and start fresh in 2022. In the world of bill pay, 2021 certainly sent many waves to billers in all industries in the form of mail delays, staffing challenges, and rising costs.