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Women in Payments: Breaking into Payments and Cybersecurity
Friday, October 23, 2020 Nidhi (Mathson) Alberti to Payments and Industry TrendsOn a virtual panel during the Women in Payments Symposium Canada, Donna Teevens, director of global information security, ACI Worldwide, joined a number of women from payments organizations including Interac, PayPal, RBC and Dentons to discuss, “The Key to Cybersecurity in a Crisis and Beyond.”
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How to Deliver on the Promise of End-to-End, Global Real-Time Payments [Q&A]
Monday, October 19, 2020 Craig Ramsey to Low Value Real Time Payments, High Value Real Time PaymentsTraditionally, Sibos has been focused on high-value cross-border payments, but – as with so much of 2020 – times are changing. High- and low-value cross-border payments are converging, and the rich-data standards that are emerging for real-time payments will further accelerate this trend. The big challenge will be, how do we deliver on the promise of end-to-end, global real-time payments?
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Strong Customer Authentication: New Rules Will Trigger Profound Changes in Many Organizations [Q&A]
Friday, October 16, 2020 Katrin Boettger to Consumer Payments, Fraud ManagementOne of the biggest industry issues for the payments community right now is strong customer authentication (SCA) – the new regulation for card payments, including card-not-present or eCommerce payments. This is due to come into force on December 31, 2020 in the EU, and on September 14, 2021 in the U.K. ACI recently brought together industry stakeholders for a webinar entitled Competition Versus Compliance: How an SCA Exemptions Strategy Can Grow Your Business. I spoke with these stakeholders about the challenges, but also opportunities, that SCA will bring to the payments industry.
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The Two Sides of Payments Modernization in Asia: Real-Time and Financial Inclusion
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Leslie Choo to Low Value Real Time Payments, Consumer PaymentsHome to nearly 60 percent of the world’s population, as well as some of the most dynamic and diverse markets, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region plays a critical role in shaping the world economy. The diversity of the region is also evident in its payments landscape, with almost every country forging its own path towards payments modernization.
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The Fight for Fuel Customer Loyalty Is On
Thursday, October 08, 2020 Bob Koscheski to Consumer PaymentsIn 2019, price determined where 59 percent of consumers chose to purchase their fuel, and more than half opted to pay at the pump, preferring to simply pay for gas and go.
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Payments in a Post-Coronavirus World: How the Pandemic Is Influencing Tomorrow’s Industry in Latin America
Tuesday, October 06, 2020 Federico Vilanova to Payments and Industry TrendsWhile the novel coronavirus has (understandably) dominated the day-to-day focus of today’s payment players, the fact is, at some point we will either fully adapt or be living in a post-coronavirus world. How can our industry prepare? In a recent webinar hosted by Fintech Americas, we brought together experts from Redeban Multicolor, Red Link and PROSA to explore where they see the industry going – with a specific emphasis on Latin American markets – and what they’re doing to ensure future success.
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Central Infrastructure for Real-Time Payments: Overcoming the Final Hurdle [Mastercard Q&A]
Monday, October 05, 2020 Craig Ramsey to Low Value Real Time Payments, High Value Real Time PaymentsThe modernization of cross-border payments has brought transparency, certainty and speed to international business. However, the long-term success of new innovations, such as SWIFT gpi and Universal Confirmations, hinge upon real-time, end-to-end, data-rich transaction flows.
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Gaming Merchants Are Riding a Rollercoaster in 2020 with Rises in Revenue and Fraud
Thursday, September 24, 2020 Sharell Barshishat to Fraud ManagementWith the social lives of millions worldwide on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many have turned to video gaming as a safe outlet to interact with others or to simply counter boredom.
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Cut Your Losses – It’s Time to Digitize Medical Loss Ratio Rebate Payments
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 David Young to Bill PayThe deadline to issue medical loss ratio (MLR) rebates for 2020 is next week, yet many health insurers are meeting the requirement by sending paper checks in the mail. Meanwhile, only seven percent of health care premium payments are paid by check, according to the 2020 ACI Speedpay Pulse survey on billing and payment preferences. Policyholders receiving these checks may not understand why they are receiving them – if they even open the envelope in the first place.
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Could COVID-19 Be India’s Cashless Catalyst?
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Somya Patnaik to Low Value Real Time Payments, Omni CommerceIndia’s push towards a digital economy has accelerated over the years, with a supportive regulatory environment, home-grown technologies and innovation around digital infrastructure improving “last mile” connectivity to the remote towns and rural areas of the country. While the “Digital India” drive has been consistent, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the true value of digitization for businesses and consumers alike. It is a watershed moment and has fast-tracked the pace of digital adoption, particularly for payments, which now plays a critical role in economic recovery.
