Welcome to the second edition of Payments Review, your source of analysis and insight on payments trends. This quarterly digital magazine, exclusively for members, brings together a range of views and voices from across the industry.
Luke Cutajar, director of customer success at Ripple, fell into the payments sector 17 years ago after landing a role at American Express when he left university in Brighton. Specialising in foreign exchange services initially, Luke speaks to The Payment Association’s editor Jyoti Rambhai about building his payments career.
The UK’s financial watchdog has warned that e-money firms must undertake a “significant shift in culture and behaviour” if it is to comply with the new Consumer Duty rules, due to come into force in July.
Welcome to the first edition of Payments Review, your source of analysis and insight on payments trends. This quarterly digital magazine, exclusively for members, brings together a range of views and voices from across the industry.
From chips embedded into consumers hands to make contactless payments to biometric wearable devices, and digital currencies versus a cashless society, The Payments Association speaks to industry experts to find out the key themes likely to dominate the industry over the next decade.
Miranda McLean from the European Women in Payments Network (EWPN) examines how the culture has changed for women in the payments, but argues why more needs to be done in what is still a traditionally male-dominated sector.
The Payments Association’s members and invited guests came together to celebrate Christmas in style on 6 December, as well as getting a unique opportunity to meet the association’s newest Advisory Board members and the new chair of the judges of the PAY360 Awards, Laura McCracken and the new deputy chair of the judges, Mike Chambers.
Virtual cards used for B2B transactions can offer tailored payment solutions for customers, while suppliers could gain instant payments and enhanced data, according to several firms using the payment method for B2B transactions.
When it comes to supporting customers through the cost of living crisis, it seems the payments sector has faded into the background and innovation has stalled. Project Inclusion intends to turn that around.
Representatives from companies such as Starling Bank, American Express, Nationwide, Visa, Mastercard, Bottomline, Clearscore, Vyne, Pennies, Tink, Eversheds Sunderland, Baker Botts and many more came together to discuss the future open banking model.