Displaying 1 - 10 of 211 Payments and Industry Trends blog posts
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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, Retail 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.
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Brazil’s Digital Payments Transformation: Five Key Takeaways
Monday, August 10, 2020 Vlademir Santos to Payments and Industry Trends, Immediate PaymentsBrazil has abundant growth opportunity when it comes to digital payments, with PIX – the Central Bank of Brazil’s new instant payments system – expected to have a significant impact. This was evident during a recent webinar Digital Transformation into Payments, hosted by Mercado & Consumo em Alerta and featuring experts from Getnet, Pernambucanas, Conductor and ACI.
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From "Access to Cash" to "Access to Digital" – How Innovative Thinking Is Keeping SMEs Trading
Monday, August 03, 2020 Lu Zurawski to Retail Payments, Payments and Industry TrendsWith millions of people in London and the wider U.K. having endured lockdowns and restrictions, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on our shopping habits. While some supermarkets have struggled to keep up with customer demand and social distancing rules, many small, local business have adapted to the crisis quickly, efficiently and in innovative ways. While supermarkets have run out of delivery slots, smaller businesses are now offering local deliveries whilst providing safe digital payments options. They are also selling goods that the big supermarkets have run out of because traditional supply chains have been interrupted.
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Taking the Pulse of Biometric Authentication in 2020
Monday, July 13, 2020 Ana Cheney to Payments and Industry TrendsGrowing demand for digital payment methods in recent years, including a plethora of mobile payments and person-to-person payment applications, has already put biometric authentication firmly at the forefront of payments and fintech. Moreover, the COVID-19 global health crisis has introduced new norms that have discouraged non-essential physical interaction, which has further boosted the popularity of digital payment alternatives. Already in March, CNBC noted that there had been a surge in the number of Americans preferring ‘”tap and go” transactions through digital wallets, like Apple Pay or Google Pay, overwhelmingly secured with biometric (mainly fingerprint) authentication.
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COVID-19 Crisis Will Accelerate Launch of New Digital Payment Services Underpinned by Real-Time Payments
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Katrin Boettger to Immediate Payments, Payments and Industry TrendsThe COVID-19 crisis, and the fact that many millions have been self-quarantining at home, contributed to a spike in eCommerce growth in sectors such as retail and gaming and changing payment behaviors. Katrin Boettger spoke to Adam Needel, principal solution leadership manager —real-time payments, to discuss the impact the crisis may have on the future of digital and real-time payments.
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When It Comes to Payments, COVID-19 Crisis Could Lead to Long-Term Shifts in Consumer Behavior [Q&A]
Thursday, April 16, 2020 Katrin Boettger to Immediate Payments, Payments and Industry TrendsACI Worldwide and GlobalData recently launched Prime Time for Real-Time, a new global report tracking and analyzing real-time payments volumes, growth and dynamics across 30 global markets. According to the global research, an industry first, more than half a trillion real-time payments transactions will be processed over the next five years. I discussed what the findings mean, and how the COVID-19 pandemic might be a further catalyst for behavioral change, with ACI’s global head of real-time payments, Craig Ramsey.
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Women in Payments: Celebrating International Women’s Day 2020
Friday, March 06, 2020 Nidhi (Mathson) Alberti to Payments and Industry TrendsInternational Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8, honors the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women – including equality for all women.
To commemorate the occasion, we spoke with a few female leaders in the payments industry about what the day means both for them and for the wider payments industry. The comments and insights we received were nothing short of inspiring and encouraging.
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Women in Payments: Student Perspectives on the Payments Industry (Part 1)
Friday, February 28, 2020 Nidhi (Mathson) Alberti to Payments and Industry TrendsLast month, ACI’s Omaha office hosted six students from the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Information Technology department for a one-day event, showcasing ACI’s solution offerings and the company’s role in the global payments industry. The six students, all of whom were members of UNO’s Association for Computing Machinery-Women (ACM-W) chapter, had previously participated in one of ACI Omaha’s Coding for Girls Camps.