Payments & Infrastructure
Payments and financial infrastructure are evolving rapidly through digital wallets, cross-border platforms, mobile payments, and new blockchain-based systems. Fintech Review analyses innovations reshaping transactions, payment rails, and the underlying infrastructure of digital finance.
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Beyond Payments: How Embedded Finance is Reshaping Business Models
Embedded finance is transforming industries by incorporating financial services directly into non-financial platforms. This integration allows businesses to offer banking-like services, enhancing customer experience and simplifying transactions. Consumers benefit from seamless access to payments, loans, and insurance, all within familiar digital environments. This shift is redefining traditional banking structures. Fintech firms and non-financial businesses are…
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The Evolution of Payment Solutions: From Traditional Methods to Digital Wallets
Payment systems have undergone significant transformations over the years. From cash and checks to digital wallets, these changes have revolutionised commerce and consumer behaviour. We explore the evolution of payment solutions, analysing adoption rates, security challenges, regulatory shifts, and innovative technologies. Traditional Payment Methods: Cash and Checks For centuries, cash reigned supreme as the primary…
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The Future of Digital Payments: Trends and Predictions for 2025
The digital payments landscape is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements and changing consumer preferences. As we look towards 2025, several key trends are shaping the future of digital payments, including contactless payments, cryptocurrency transactions, and mobile payment solutions. Digital payments in 2025: current trends and predictions for the future, offering insights on how businesses…
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Financial Inclusion and the Future of DeFi: An Interview with Fuse CEO
Fuse aims to bridge the gap between traditional and decentralised finance, empowering small businesses and emerging markets
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Fintech in Emerging Markets: Opportunities and Challenges
In emerging markets, fintech is profoundly transforming financial services. These markets, often characterised by underdeveloped financial infrastructure, benefit significantly from fintech innovations. Fintech Review delves into how fintech is reshaping financial services in these regions. We will explore success stories, the pivotal role of mobile money, and the unique challenges faced. The Role of Mobile…
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Digital Payments in the Fintech Revolution
Digital payments are at the forefront of transformation. Fintech, by nature a blend of finance and technology, is revolutionising how transactions are conducted worldwide.
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What Next for Payments in SaaS: Interview with Jack Mangnall
Shape Technologies is revolutionizing the payments industry with its cutting-edge payments-platform-as-a-service, designed to empower payment service providers globally. Fintech Review sat down with Jack Mangnall, Cofounder of Shape Technologies, a dynamic player in the fintech space. Jack, with his extensive experience in client-facing operations and strong focus on innovative fintech solutions, has played a pivotal…
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A Guide to the Link Between Fintech and Global Money Transfers
By Kate Sands from 6XDMEDIA. Rates of global money transfers, also known as remittances, have grown five-fold over the last two decades and they show no signs of slowing down. Fintech is making it easier than ever before to transfer money internationally, and businesses and individuals alike are making the most of it. Let’s take…
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The Silent Revolution of International Payments: Interview with Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier
The rapid shift from traditional banking systems to more advanced digital platforms marks the revolution in international payments. It is enabling real-time and cost-effective cross-border transactions. This transformation is not only enhancing user experience and financial inclusion. But also reshaping the global financial landscape and how businesses operate internationally. Fintech Review asked a few questions…
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Role of Corporate Cards in Improving Business Credit and Cashflow
Payment infrastructure for businesses has improved over the years with many innovations. Technology has helped develop tools such as corporate cards to suit modern business needs and manage finances in a way that wasn’t possible before. Corporate credit cards are financial tools that a company can issue for its employees and provide them with a…
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How to Choose the Right Payment Gateway
By Sam Anderson from WritingSimon.com The explosive growth of technology has drastically altered the payment landscape. It is making it easier than ever for customers to access a variety of efficient and seamless payment options. To provide customers with a personalized experience, it is critical to select the right payment gateway for your business. But…
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Real-Time Payments Demand Advanced Security Features
How fintechs can protect customers in the battle against fraud
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This is Why Online Payments Are the Next Big Thing in Ecommerce Innovation
By Ed Whitehead, Managing Director EMEA for Signifyd, a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores. Industry players are on a mission to differentiate themselves. While merchants and consumers are demanding innovative ways to pay for what they buy. A seamless payment experience is becoming more and more important to consumers and therefore…
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Mapping the Customer Journey: How to Reduce Friction Due to SCA
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) was introduced with the aim to reduce ecommerce fraud. And while the two-factor authentication process is coming into force right on time with fraud attacks rife in the ecommerce landscape, it is also creating friction in the customer journey. Unfortunately, higher cart abandonment rates and lost revenue are some of the…
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Keeping Consumers in the Know: How SCA Awareness Benefits Merchants
When the new Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regulations were put in place, the goal was clear – reducing ecommerce fraud. But the two-factor authentication has also created significant friction in the customer journey. Merchants are trying to navigate the new regulations and ease the process, but there are gaps in customers’ awareness of the new…
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The Bright Future of Emerging Market currencies: Interview with Mike Robertson and Adrian Brown
The world of currencies is definitely an interesting one. Not even talking about the elephant in the room, cryptocurrencies, which steal the show these days. But that’s tiny in our big wild world. Rather let’s talk about good old currencies. A world that goes far beyond the almighty US Dollar, the Euro, or the Great…
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The Astonishing Growth of Payments in Esports: Interview with Kamran Hedjri
The payments industry is a vast and complex world. As a start, what do we really mean when we talk about payments? It can mean a thousand different things to a thousand different persons. Within specific industries, the needs can be quite divergent. That is what makes it so interesting. What about the growth of…
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Payments orchestration: what’s next? Interview with Kristian Gjerding
Payments are like an opera, they need a conductor otherwise it is a lot of noise and not at all a symphony. Why? Because similarly, it would be as if all the musicians play at the same time without coordination. Just a lot of noise and hard to follow what is really going on. What…
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Remarkable Future of Credit Cards: Interview with David Boyd
Credit cards have been around for quite a while. These little pieces of plastics started to be issued as early as the 1920s by stores to let loyal customers spend more easily. Fast forward to today, and things have changed quite a lot. And not so much at the same time. Of the 2.8 billion…
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Infographic – Financial Trends to Watch Out for in 2022
Infographic on financial trends in 2022 by Colette Cassidy, Director of Irish tax consultancy All Finance Tax, specialists in financial and taxation advice.
