Displaying 71 - 80 of 164 Payments and Industry Trends blog posts

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  Women Are a Force to Reckon with When it Comes to Wearable Payments

  Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Silvia Mensdorff-Pouilly to Payments and Industry Trends

  A few weeks ago, Visa unveiled a sunglass prototype with payment capabilities. The pair of shades, showcased at several tech events around the world, looked almost identical to non-tech models – with the exception of a tiny chip embedded on the side. To pay, a wearer simply taps them on a Visa near field communication (NFC) enabled terminal.

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  Alternative Payments, Immediate Payments and Collaboration—Big Initiatives That Will Bring Big Value in the Middle East

  Friday, May 12, 2017 Paul McMeekin to Payments and Industry Trends, Immediate Payments

  We recently wrapped up an exciting Seamless Payments, Middle East conference. Attendees debated about numerous industry topics, with considerable buzz around alternative payments and immediate payments.

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  ETA TRANSACT: Time To Break Out… And Cross Borders To Reach New Customers

  Thursday, May 11, 2017 Michael Grillo to Payments and Industry Trends, eCommerce, Payments Risk Management, Merchant Retail

  It’s before lunch on day one of ETA Transact17 in Las Vegas; exhibitors are still putting the finishing touches on their stands in the main hall, so it’s the perfect opportunity to sit in on some of the breakout sessions, part of the educational program put on by the Electronic Transactions Association. And ‘breakout session’ seems particularly apt in this case, as panelists from ACI Worldwide, Planet Payment, and arvato launch into a discussion on how merchants and payment providers can ‘break out’ of their domestic markets and take advantage of the huge opportunity in cross-border eCommerce.

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  (When) Are We Really Going Cashless?

  Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Dan Ring to Payments and Industry Trends

  We’re officially in May, which means that the unofficial start of summer in certain parts of the world is quickly approaching…and it also means that we’re overdue for another Rantings post (maybe). And with that, Mark, I just returned from a Southeastern jaunt with the family, eating my way through Asheville, NC and Nashville, TN (with a quick stop at Dollywood). In addition to now having staggeringly/dangerously high cholesterol from the mass quantities and (primarily fried) food I consumed, I also have a surplus of cash—because my wife coerced me into withdrawing money from an airport ATM (in advance of said jaunt). What’s interesting is that I actually spent at least some cash each day of our trip, primarily for tipping hotel workers, but also for the infrequent small cash-only business.

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  Blockchain Is Hot, But Where’s the Beef?

  Monday, May 08, 2017 Roger Oliphant to Payments and Industry Trends

  In spite of the hype—news of blockchain developments and its associated Bitcoin currency has become nearly ubiquitous—large-scale enterprises have been slow to adopt the emerging technology that promises to disrupt and improve a wide range of industries from finance & banking, insurance and real estate to cybersecurity and even music.

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  ATMs in a Cashless World? To Define is to Limit

  Tuesday, May 02, 2017 Rachel Hunt to Payments and Industry Trends

  Happy 50^th Birthday! The humble Automated Teller Machine (ATM) first made its appearance on the payments stage in the late 1960s, fast becoming a familiar feature on every high street, and has now reached a global installed base of just over 4 million. But cash is still king in many emerging markets, propping global growth, despite signs of decline in Europe and other mature regions.

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  Ellucian Live 2017: We Have Seen the Future of Cloud Payments

  Monday, May 01, 2017 Marc Sczesnak to Payments and Industry Trends, Bill Pay

  Each year, Ellucian brings together more than 8,000 attendees from 1,300 higher education institutions to Ellucian Live, the higher ed industry’s largest event—to discuss best practices and preview upcoming tech advancements.. 

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  The Next Generation of Women in Tech

  Friday, April 28, 2017 Andrea Snyder to Payments and Industry Trends

  ACI recently hosted its second Coding for Girls camp in Omaha, with 30 middle school girls taking part. A group of ACI volunteers and executives hosted the free event (complete with a pizza lunch) at the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The camp gave the girls a hands-on introduction to HTML, CSS and Java, helping to spark interest in tech and coding at a young age. We sat down with Sampy Gajre, senior recruiter, ACI Worldwide, who leads the Coding for Girls program, to talk about the importance of learning about tech at a young age, ACI’s plans to expand the initiative to other cities—and how she is helping to recruit the next generation of female tech leaders.  

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  Liquidity Management and Instant Payments: Why Banks Must Act Now

  Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Domenico Scaffidi to Payments and Industry Trends, Immediate Payments, Transaction Banking

  With the pan-European Instant Payments Scheme due to go live in November this year, real-time payments are about to become a reality for many businesses and consumers in Europe. Our own research shows that the demand for faster and innovative banking services among consumers and business is high.

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  Rapid Rails for Real-Time Payments

  Monday, April 24, 2017 Sandra Horn to Immediate Payments, Payments and Industry Trends

  As the NACHA PAYMENTS conference arrives in Austin, Texas this week, we spoke with Steve Ledford, Senior Vice President, Product and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH) about the key issues conference participants will be talking about: same day ACH, real-time payments and Request for Pay transactions, among other topics.