Displaying 1 - 10 of 218 Payments and Industry Trends blog posts
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EMV at the Pump: Is it Really That Secure?
Thursday, April 08, 2021 Terry Rourke to Fraud Management, Secure eCommerce, Payments and Industry TrendsLast weekend I went spring skiing, well spring snowboarding — but you know what I mean. It was sunny, with temperatures in the 50s — an epic day of carving mashed potatoes to close my snowboarding season.
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PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance – A Catalyst for Progressive Consumer Payments Modernization
Friday, March 26, 2021 Ray Lockwood to Fraud Management, Consumer Payments, Payments and Industry Trends2021 marks the beginning of the implementation of the new PCI DSS standards, with the final version of PCI DSS v4.0 currently planned for completion in Q4 2021. The planning phase, which has been run collaboratively by the Security Standards Council with the global industry since 2019, has now come to an end and the time window for global financial institutions to begin implementing their solutions has begun. In short, if you haven’t started yet, you’re already behind the curve.
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Fintech’s March Madness: The Top Seeds “Jonesing” for Glory in Indiana
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Dan Ring to Payments and Industry TrendsAhh March Madness… my favorite time of year for sports (and gambling) and also the one tournament where I’m typically out of the running in my myriad betting pools after day one. While I’ve paid only marginal attention to actual college basketball this year, I’ve been keeping much closer tabs on the madness that has enveloped fintech. And while 68 teams comprise the real March Madness tournament, I’m really only focused on the top four fintech seeds… and that’s primarily due to length of this post (as well as my waning attention span).
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Cloud Trends That Will Shape India’s Banking Sector in 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Ciaran Chu to Payments and Industry TrendsIndia’s banks and financial institutions (FIs) continue to adapt and innovate as the pandemic drives mass adoption of digital payments. Long term success will depend on successfully ramping up services and ensuring profitability while reshaping customer experiences. This is where the power of the cloud will come into play: In 2021, cloud will increasingly power vital infrastructure for India’s banking and payments sector, improving remote collaboration as well as enabling faster and more agile application development and deployment.
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What Will the World of Post-Pandemic Payments Look Like? [Dave Birch Q&A]
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Christopher Taine to Payments and Industry Trends, Consumer PaymentsDave Birch is a leading global authority on payments and digital identity, who is no stranger to predicting what the future of financial services has in store. After delivering the keynote presentation at our recent ACI Edge Virtual: Banks & Intermediaries, we gathered some insights from Dave on what the world of payments could look like, post pandemic.
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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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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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The Pandemic Has Accelerated the New Era of Acquiring
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Carlos Pérez Rubio to Payments and Industry TrendsThe COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many trends already taking shape in consumer purchasing behavior. Almost overnight, routine activities ranging from picking up groceries to buying gas unexpectedly became something that they had never been before – risky.
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How National Central Infrastructure Initiatives for Real-time Payments Create Immediate Business Opportunities for Merchants
Thursday, August 20, 2020 Lu Zurawski to Payments and Industry TrendsMore and more countries and regional alliances are investing in the creation of new financial market infrastructures. Governments and leaders of central banks have decided that the finance industry needs investment to be fit for the demands of digital economies, suitable for the trailblazing businesses of the fourth industrial revolution.
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Payments Modernization in the Cloud: An Inflection Point in the History of Payments
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Katrin Boettger to Payments and Industry Trends, Consumer PaymentsPublic cloud is one of the big buzzwords in payments right now. While a few years ago financial institutions were reluctant to embrace the technology, they are now among the most likely to do so. ACI discussed the topic of Payments Modernization in the Cloud during a recent webinar, moderated by Finextra’s Head of Research Gary Wright. Katrin Boettger caught up with the panellists — Ciaran Chu, head of cloud at ACI; Peter Hazou, business strategy leader at Microsoft and Lu Zurawski, practice lead, retail banking at ACI — about why the COVID-19 pandemic might be a further catalyst for the worldwide adoption of cloud technology.