
Banking in the metaverse: The next frontier
As you read this, the internet is being reshaped. And it’s already transforming banking. We have not witnessed a topic explode quite like the metaverse. While extended reality (XR) technology has been...
Variable recurring payment (VRP) is the latest development in UK Open Banking. It offers an innovative way to initiate ...
One of the most remarkable things about payments right now is how easy they are to miss. Not that long ago, moving ...
Money is on the move. Transactions that once took days now happen in seconds as new technology kickstarts ...
This thought leadership piece looks at Instant Payments in the Middle East – how this innovative trend being ...
Our latest Payments Pulse study is full of many fascinating insights. One of the most interesting details from this ...
Life in the Middle Ages in Europe was hard. The majority of people’s time was spent on the basics: hauling water from ...
Digital technologies have conditioned us to crave immediacy. We get packages delivered in an hour. We binge-watch ...
Instant, on-the-go services have become part of daily life for consumers around the globe. It is now possible to ...
As you read this, the internet is being reshaped. And it’s already transforming banking. We have not witnessed a topic explode quite like the metaverse. While extended reality (XR) technology has been...
When Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 science-fiction novel, Snow Crash, he could hardly have foreseen that the phrase would be everywhere by late 2021. With bigtech giants like...
Back in 2009, Apple coined the catchy phrase, “there’s an app for that.” Since then, apps (single-use apps, that is) have multiplied exponentially and become part of everyday life for most people. But...
In a post-COVID world we have seen dramatic changes in the way customers pay, from the further shift towards a cashless society to a digital revolution in e-commerce payments. As we look forward, we s...
Every January since 2018, our annual “Top 10 Banking Trends” report has attempted to cut through the noise and reveal the real forces shaping the industry’s future. On top of the bold predictions and ...
The pace of change in payments right now might seem overwhelming. The pandemic has supercharged the trend towards contactless, online and instant payments. Contactless payments, for instance, grew 150...
Digital payments are gaining popularity as cash usage declines around the world. While card payments still dominate in countries where they have a large incumbent advantage, digital products like paym...
This blog is based on my keynote presentation at the 2021 Payments Canada SUMMIT Payments leaders probably feel like they are living in the future right now. The pandemic changed the industry forever....
At the recent Money 20/20 conference, I spoke with The Fintech Times about which potential disruptors banks and payments players are most concerned about. Accenture surveyed over 200 payments executiv...
Open Banking allows customers to share access to their banking data with trusted third parties, which then provide the customer with a better banking experience. Its adoption has been uneven around th...