Displaying 91 - 100 of 181 Payments and Industry Trends blog posts
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Amazon & Whole Foods: A Game-Changer for Customer Experience
Thursday, June 29, 2017 Michael Grillo to Payments and Industry Trends, Merchant Retail, eCommerceThe estimated $700-billion-dollar grocery business recently got a jolt when Amazon announced its intended purchase of Whole Foods Market. With more than 450 stores in the U.S. and UK, Amazon will be plunging head first into the physical world of commerce.
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SleepAtNightability – Why We Must Not Forget The Fundamentals of Payments
Monday, June 26, 2017 Silvia Mensdorff-Pouilly to Payments and Industry Trends“Boring in payments isn’t a bug; it’s a feature.”
When I saw this quote on Twitter, I literally LOL-ed, mainly because it’s so true (thanks to James Wester & Sam Maule). Indeed the ’boring’ in payments exists for good reason; when it comes to peoples’ money, you can innovate, but you cannot forget the fundamentals. The basics may be boring, but the lesson there is that they are vital.
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Open Payments Require Collaboration for Successful Innovation
Monday, June 26, 2017 Mark A. Ranta to Payments and Industry TrendsThere are a few things in my life I enjoy more than the serenity of a garden. There is nothing more fulfilling than starting off with something as innocuous as a planted seed, only to watch it bloom during the course of the spring and summer, and end its journey in a bounty of produce. As anyone with a green thumb would tell you, it’s not just the quality of the thing you start with, but the care and watchful eye you give it along the way; when to water, when not to, when to weed, when the seedlings may need cover from a pending cold snap, and when you just need to let nature take its course.
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Regulating the Payments Ecosystem Transformation
Friday, June 23, 2017 Paul Thomalla to Payments and Industry TrendsNew banks, new payments players, new choice. The competition is heating up in payments, with both incumbents and those new to the scene, vying to emerge victorious.
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Payments Buzzwords Bingo: Mid-Year Report Card
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Mark A. Ranta to Payments and Industry TrendsSummer is in the air (and it’s 95 degrees this week!!). As we move properly into ‘flip-flops and shorts’ season in the North East, it’s about that time to check in on our annual calls from the New Year (and begin to look forward to counting down to the next set of predictions). Hard to believe that 2017’s Christmas is now closer than 2016’s, but so goes time, and nobody can slow that down. So without further ado I give to you… the mid-year trends update!
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Addressing Millennials and Their Influence within the Payments Industry
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Felipe Joya to Payments and Industry TrendsGenerational changes are a reality that affect all of us, and bring with them variations in behavior. We are currently experiencing one of these generational changes, which has also brought with it challenges for the payments industry. The nearly 2 billion millennials that now inhabit the earth have entered into adulthood (in some respects at least) and will soon become the generation with the greatest purchasing power.
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The ATM Turns 50: Does Retirement Beckon? Or Does A New Role in the Payments Ecosystem Await?
Wednesday, June 07, 2017 Christopher Taine to Payments and Industry TrendsThis year marks the 50th birthday of the Automated Teller Machine (ATM), with the first one installed in London on June 27, 1967. Five decades on, and there are more than 3 million ATMs deployed worldwide, with the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) citing research that calculated that a new ATM is added to the global installed base every three minutes. I spoke with Andy McDonald, vice president of Merchant Payments at ACI Worldwide, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the payments industry, much of it focused on ATMs. Who better to provide insight into whether ATMs have a well-earned retirement awaiting, or if we’ll still be using them (in one form or another) in 50 years’ time?
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Top 3 Things Students Want When Paying Tuition
Monday, June 05, 2017 Steve Kramer to Bill Pay, Payments and Industry TrendsI know the pain that Finance VPs in higher education experience. It seems like every day that someone comes to you saying “Our students need new technology. Can we squeeze it into the budget?” I own the P&L, so I get it.
Did you know that your university payment systems can take away some of your pain? Meeting new demands from students and parents will actually save you money. How? We sponsored a revealing survey with Aite Group that explains the potential savings.
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Are Open APIs the Stairway to the New Payments Ecosystem?
Thursday, June 01, 2017 Mark A. Ranta to Payments and Industry TrendsLosing yourself in music is something that everyone should do at least once a day. The freedoms that it affords one’s mind cannot be understated. In my eclectic (and eternal) playlist, there is one song that has likely been played at least twice as much as any other (and to be fair, it likely has the same global play counts); Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, an epic song that helped define the band to generations. But it was this past week when listening to the song when my mind was turning over thoughts on banking, and a line jumped out at me with new meaning; “There’s a feeling I get, when I look to the west…” While Jimmy and Robert were musing over much larger questions about life and death, my current journey had me subconsciously thinking about banking.
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SMEs Expect Instant Payments: How Do Banks Meet This Challenge?
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Barry Kislingbury to Payments and Industry Trends, Immediate Payments, Transaction BankingListening to their customers and delivering new services will be crucial for the success of real-time banking and payments in Europe and the US