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Finance

Was Amazon’s stand-off with Visa the catalyst Open Banking needed? Prakash Sinha thinks it could open the door to even more consumer choice.

By Prakash Sinha, Radware Last November, in one of the most dramatic financial announcements of the...

16th March, 2022

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Banking

Contactless payment rates surge in the UK: But what comes next?

Kriya Patel, CEO, Transact Payments Ltd Contactless payments have changed the way that Britons pay f...

9th March, 2022

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Finance

With SCA deadline looming – what happens next?

By Rob Crutchington, Managing Director of Encoded Organisations with an online presence need to be s...

8th March, 2022

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Technology

3 Verafin Alternatives to Look at in 2022 | ScanWriter, BankScan, and CFIS

“Evaluating alternatives is a critical part of the decision-making process. Weighing the pros and co...

7th March, 2022

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Technology

Pragmatic automation: overcoming the stigma surrounding quick fixes and ‘automation debt’

By Yad Jaura, Product Marketing Manager at Netcall Automation has been heralded as a key accelerator...

4th March, 2022

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Banking

Open banking’s role in addressing the cost of living crisis

By Dan Morgan, Europe Policy Lead, Plaid The crisis at hand As we emerge from another peak of the co...

15th February, 2022

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Banking

EU Member States Move Towards a Cashless Future

By Florian Winkler, COO and Co-founder of VitraCash] The global shift towards a cashless economy has...

15th February, 2022

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Business

Tap-to-phone will change the payments game for small retailers and merchants

Kasper Enggaard Krog, CEO at mobile payment and business technology firm, Vibrant, explains why micr...

10th February, 2022

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Banking

How real-time payments are revolutionising payroll

By Ian Wheeler, founder and CEO of northwest-based fintech payroll company, Income Group, explores t...

8th February, 2022

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Business

Introducing Payment Gateways – the key to secure e-commerce

By Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili, CEO of HPS Over the past years, e-commerce has experienced unprecedented...

8th September, 2021

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Finance

Exclusive: Chinese state firms to take big stake in Ant’s credit-scoring JV – sources

By Julie Zhu HONG KONG (Reuters) – State-backed firms are set to take a sizeable stake in a ke...

2nd September, 2021

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Investing

ByteDance says it will downsize fintech business, plans to sell stock broker ops

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing-based ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, said on Wednesday that it wo...

2nd September, 2021