Payments
Can direct debits survive in the digital world?
Tuesday 15 March 2022
A very interesting guest post from our friends at Tribe Payments on the future of direct debit payments and what may replace them. Are Faster Payments and VRPs the killer combination? Direct debits (BACs) and CHAPS payments have long served a useful purpose, largely due to their high transaction limit. But this dynamic changed with
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Why consumers don’t care about fintech
Tuesday 11 January 2022
How can we create payment experiences that inspire genuine brand affection? FTT Embedded Finance UK and Europe presented an exclusive panel discussion with Derek Stewart (Founder and CEO at PAYSME), Otabek Nuritdinov (Co-Founder and CEO at StormPay), Alex Reddish (Managing Director at Tribe Payments) and moderated by Tasneem Harnekar (Global Head of Operations at Alchemy
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Fintech for travel – Embedded for a rebound?
Tuesday 05 October 2021
Fintech for Travel – Embedded for a Rebound? The travel and tourism industries were among the hardest hit from lockdowns and restrictions introduced by governments around the world to reduce the spread of COVID. According to statistics from the Office for National Statistics, in Q2 2020 overseas residents spent 97% less than in Q2 2019 on their visits to the UK, highlighting the stark
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It all starts with a payment
Tuesday 28 September 2021
At FTT Embedded Finance North America, we were joined by an impressive group of industry leaders to explore the topic of embedded payments. Industry practitioners Kothai Senthil , Vice President, Head of Payments, Albertsons, David Tax, Senior Manager, Payments Strategy and Innovation, TD Bank, Matteo Gamba, Product Lead Payments, Wayfair and Manash Bhattacharjee, Head of
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Make payment optimization a part of your core payment strategy powered by Very Good Security
Tuesday 21 September 2021
Getting locked in with a single Payment service provider (PSP) can lead to loss of flexibility, higher payment processing costs, lost sales due to false positive declines, and loss of control over payments data – putting a strain on revenues. Fortunately, payment optimization is an easy-to-integrate remedy to vendor lock-in. Download Make Payment Optimization a
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Marqeta Keynote – Evolution or revolution: A payments journey
Tuesday 14 September 2021
What does the emergence of embedded finance mean for technology innovators, financial service providers, and non-financial businesses? FTT Embedded Finance North America included an impressive fireside chat with an embedded finance pioneer, Jason Gardner, CEO of Marqeta and Simon Torrance, CEO of Embedded Finance & Super App Strategies and Executive Working Group Member at World Economic Forum. It is a fascinating discussion on the problems that embedded finance seeks to address at scale,
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How can financial institutions thrive in an era of embedded finance?
Tuesday 31 August 2021
The financial services business model has changed significantly during the past decade, as have the solutions that consumers leverage to manage their financial lives. Around the world, we are seeing more examples of how banking services have started to merge into non-financial applications. Unbundling is slowly changing the way financial services are delivered and consumed,
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Caveat Emptor – Buy Now Pay Later – the Credit Score Risk?
Tuesday 17 August 2021
It’s not hard to see why consumers have embraced Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services with open arms in recent years. According to research from Finder.com, 37% of Brits say they have used a BNPL service in the past with more than half of BNPL users reporting to use these services more since the beginning of COVID. While BNPL is growing increasingly popular, especially among Millennials,
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How payment cards can take crypto mainstream
Tuesday 03 August 2021
How payment cards can take crypto mainstream The number of cryptocurrencies now exceeds 5,200, according to Investing.com, evidence that cryptocurrencies are increasingly viewed as viable stores of value. However, the technology that supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, and Dogecoin trading has some inherent limitations. Even the most popular cryptocurrencies today are not easily accessible for everyday
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Innovation powered by payments
Tuesday 18 May 2021
A cross sections of experts came together as part of Fintech Talents North America to discuss the exciting and fast changing world of payments. Payments are often a catalyst to greater innovation across the industry and the panel discussion was a great demonstration of how that plays out across the ecosystem. From the technology to
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