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1.2KB2B PaymentsFX Fees Not The Only Cross-Border B2B Payments Pain Point
The European Union (EU) is introducing measures to reduce cross-border payment fees, which have emerged as a top pain point in the...
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2.6KSmarter PaymentsInstant Payments Mean Instant Security Challenges, Says EBA CLEARING
European banks have increasingly used faster payments since the November 2017 launch of EBA CLEARING’s RT1 instant payments system. Even as financial...
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1.9KSmarter PaymentsReal-Time Payments Fraud: An FI Infrastructure Issue
As the need for speed increases worldwide, banks and other financial players are adapting payments to work smarter — not harder. Faced...
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1.8KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: The Risk-Reducing Case For Push Payments
The following Deep Dive explores what’s driving interest in push payments, and where the technology may smooth out and secure consumer payments,...
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2.7KSmarter PaymentsIn India, Faster Payments Deliver ‘Instant Gratification’ To Migrants
For many Indian migrant workers, sending remittances involves the anxiety-inducing experience of giving cash to couriers or postal services and hoping for...
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4.5KSmarter PaymentsFaster Payments’ Impact On India’s 100M Migrant Workers
For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and consumers, payments that arrive promptly are worth far more than payments of the same dollar value...
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3.3KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: Making Smarter Payments Safer
As data becomes more accessible, businesses and banks — as well as fraudsters — are looking to learn as much as possible...
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3.6KSmarter PaymentsHow Smarter Payments Are Making The Gig Economy Safer
Even as technologies and payments get smarter, some firms still employ less-than-smart practices. For example, in the freelance market, says Engage Technology...
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6.8KSmarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: Can Smarter Payments Kill Off Timesheets?
In the smarter payments ecosystem, payments are more than simply moving funds from sender to recipient. These transactions are also about the...
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1.1KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: How Faster Payments Change Business As Usual
The adoption of faster payment systems is a worldwide trend, with more than 40 countries now offering their own schemes. The following...
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5.6KSmarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: How Smarter Payments Build Smarter, Safer Marketplaces
The rise of faster payment systems worldwide are not only enabling payments to move between parties at greatly enhanced speeds, but a...
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3.8KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: A Blockchain-Based Payment Rail?
Could blockchain be the next big thing in payment rails? U.S. corporates currently have a range of options available when they need to...
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930Smarter PaymentsSearching For Payments Infrastructure Ubiquity
Making payments move faster cross-border is something of an old refrain. But Manish Kohli, Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions head, says speed...
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2.4KSmarter PaymentsWhy Payment Rails Need More Than Just Speed
In the financial services sector, payment rail networks are a valuable resource for quickly moving and settling payments between parties. As more...
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6.3KSmarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: Citi On The Need For X-Border Payments Speed
When it comes to expanding operations, it pays to think globally. As more companies take their operations to the world stage, a...
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3.1KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: The Growing Threat Of DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks are among the most serious cyberthreats. During these events, multiple compromised computer systems launch attacks on one or several parts...
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4.5KSmarter PaymentsSpyCloud On Making Payments Smarter And Safer
With stolen consumer credentials being readily sold on the black market, account takeovers have become a $5 billion a year problem. But...
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7.0KSmarter PaymentsTRENDING: The Long-Tail Of Account Takeovers
In the quest to make payments smarter, speeding up transaction times isn’t always enough. Payments must also be made safe from fraud...
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6.1KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: The UK’s Open Banking Experiment
The U.K.’s open banking initiatives have been in place since January, intended to encourage greater competition in the financial services space by...
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3.2KSmarter PaymentsHow ISO 20022 Can Boost Interoperability, Intelligence
Legacy infrastructure used by traditional banks and innovations offered by FinTechs don’t often speak the same language. To get the two working...
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5.8KSmarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: Is ISO20022 FI’s Digital Payments Tower Of Babel?
New technology and innovations are pushing the payments industry forward, making transactions speedier and safer than they were before. But the emergence...
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7.9KSmarter PaymentsDeep Dive: The Rapid Rise Of Global Faster Payment Systems
Several nations and financial institutions have launched their own efforts to improve the speed of payments, including the U.S., the U.K., Australia...
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3.3KSmarter PaymentsHow Smarter Payment Tools Make Filing Taxes Less Taxing
The early bird may get the worm, but for the 15 million early tax filers in the U.S., weeks may go by...
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6.1KSmarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: H&R Block On Offering Smarter, Faster Tax Refunds
The rise of new technology has dramatically altered the traditional nature of payments, allowing gig workers and full-time workers faster access to...
