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Seller Fraud at Online Marketplaces: How to Combat It?
Ecommerce business expansion on online marketplaces inevitably goes hand in hand with the increasing risk of facing fraud. This is majorly due to the fact that modern marketplaces with embedded payments often act as payment facilitators for the merchants. Despite the fact that this practice allows transaction processing to be more intuitive and easily scalable, it also makes it more prone to malicious attacks.
24.03.2022
4 min
Global
How to Build a Resilient Merchant Payment Infrastructure
In the ever-changing global environment, it’s incredibly important to build and maintain a merchant payment infrastructure that can withstand anything that comes its way. The overview you’re about to read focuses on the best practices of increasing payments resilience applicable to both merchants operating exclusively online and those pursuing an omnichannel strategy.
21.03.2022
3 min
Global
Competitiveness of Banks & FIs: Trends, Issues, Perspectives
Companies in the financial sector are going through major adjustments in the environment that experienced a drastic shift throughout the global pandemic. Apart from keeping up with the massive adoption of payment technologies, businesses had to update their strategies while remaining compliant with the new regulations.
16.03.2022
5 min
Global
PSD2 Review: Insights from the EBA Discussion Paper
The Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is the current set of guidelines that regulates payment services across the European Union and the European Economic Area. This directive is being regularly updated to suit the evolving technology and confront the emerging fraud methods. It is also continuously monitored to ensure its effectiveness.
10.03.2022
4 min
Global
Hosted Payment Page: the Simple and Secure Checkout Tool
Every business strives to ensure a seamless payment process for its customers. While this puzzle has many pieces, one of its critical elements is a smooth online checkout procedure. It can be achieved in different ways, yet one of the best options is to implement a hosted payment page.
05.03.2022
4 min
Global
Secure Payment Page: What It Is and How to Create It
A fast and frictionless checkout process is essential for a positive customer experience. However, what is equally as important is how secure the transaction is.
03.03.2022
4 min
Global
SPAA: Learn More About the Emerging SEPA Payment Scheme
Schemes define payment processing on an international level, so it’s essential to stay in sync with all the emerging updates. There are currently a few initiatives for new payment schemes, one of them being the SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA). Find out everything you need to know about it in this detailed guide.
02.03.2022
5 min
Global
Cross-Border Payments Interoperability: ISO 20022 and Beyond
As soon as SWIFT announced the rollout of ISO 20022, it became clear that it would be a revolutionary step for cross-border payments. Here we will discuss how this standard will influence the current state of affairs of international money transfers and explore whether it is enough to solve the interoperability problem the industry is facing.
24.02.2022
3 min
Global
The Future of Payments: Instant Global Transactions
In general, it takes from one to five days for a cross-border money transfer to get to the recipient. With the modern pace of life, this is way too long of a waiting time for both individuals and businesses.
18.02.2022
4 min
Global
Maestro Is Retiring - Debit Mastercard Takes Over
Here’s the news: starting from 1 July 2023, banks and credit unions will discontinue issuing Maestro cards for good. With over 400 million cards currently in circulation worldwide, this decision is sure to require significant adjustments.
11.02.2022
4 min
Global
How Can EU Regulations Respond to the Changes in the Payment Industry?
With the payments market evolving rapidly, the existing rules and regulations require adjustment. In this article, we’ll uncover which changes are likely to take place in the industry and how the EU could respond to them.
10.02.2022
5 min
