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SCA: With weeks to go until Europe’s deadline, is the industry prepared?

SCA: With weeks to go until Europe’s deadline, is the industry prepared?

Brian Gaynor
22 Dec 2020

With just weeks to go before the 31 December 2020 deadline for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) ...

How to Maximise the Remaining Time Before the Extended SCA Deadline

How to Maximise the Remaining Time Before the Extended SCA Deadline


15 Dec 2020

It has been an extraordinary year for e-commerce, with web traffic reaching a record high in 2020 an...

Shaping the future of payments and securities through responsible innovation

Shaping the future of payments and securities through responsible innovation


14 Dec 2020

For more than 40 years, SWIFT has collaborated with its network to identify industry-wide challenges...

Reinventing the banking business model for the digital world

Reinventing the banking business model for the digital world

Ben Poole
03 Dec 2020

With rapidly changing consumer spending trends, the rise of e-commerce, and the growth and success o...

The evolving European payments landscape

The evolving European payments landscape

Ben Poole
26 Nov 2020

Transaction speeds are increasing. Faster payments rails and instant transaction policies are being ...

Strategic advantage lies in the journey, as much as the destination

Strategic advantage lies in the journey, as much as the destination


23 Nov 2020

Covid-19 has exposed the status of banks’ digital transformation strategies. While the steps that ba...

European sovereignty shackled to its payments

European sovereignty shackled to its payments


19 Nov 2020

March 2014: in the midst of the diplomatic crisis following Russia's invasion of Crimea, some Russia...

ISO 20022 holds key to fintech innovation and competition in years to come

ISO 20022 holds key to fintech innovation and competition in years to come


29 Oct 2020

As banks and other financial institutions migrate to ISO 20022 in the years ahead, many of the ongoi...

How to pronounce ISO 20022 - and other important migration details

How to pronounce ISO 20022 - and other important migration details


05 Aug 2020

We’ve reached out to the experts to compile answers to the most asked questions across the topic of ...

Expectation, standardisation and automation: Seizing the initiative in real-time payments

Expectation, standardisation and automation: Seizing the initiative in real-time payments


31 Jul 2020

Real-time payments are likely to not only expedite the movement of money, but also heighten the expe...

Apples and oranges: What makes Pay.UK and EBA Clearing’s R2P models so different?

Apples and oranges: What makes Pay.UK and EBA Clearing’s R2P models so different?


10 Jul 2020

Is there more than one way to skin a cat? A peek under the hood of Pay.UK’s and EBA Clearing’s respe...

There is more to digital payments in Africa than M-Pesa

There is more to digital payments in Africa than M-Pesa

Madhvi Mavadiya
25 Jun 2020

In 2010, Kenyan payments, money transfer and micro-financing service M-Pesa became the most successf...