Digital Agenda for Retail Banking and Payment Companies

whitePaper | July 31, 2022

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whitePaper | September 10, 2022

The Global Payments Revenue is expected to reach $2.5 trillion by 2025 overcoming the pandemic induced decline in 2020/2021, when revenues stood at $1.5 trillion.

whitePaper | October 26, 2022

They claim that financial services institutions (FSIs) fall short in several areas, including anticipating needs, prioritizing financial wellness, and enabling customers to control their data.

whitePaper | July 29, 2022

Would you like to be able to aggregate your data across your bank accounts? Enable your tax accountant to see your financial information? Enable the App of your choice to make a payment on your behalf? Or perhaps you would like to enable your residents or customers to perform these tasks in a low cost, secure and interoperable way? There is a global movement towards “Open Banking/Open Data” the paradigm shift where a user authorizes the release of their data from one entity (a data holder like a bank) to an entity where they would like it to go (a relying party like a FinTech). This is also known as “user-consent based data sharing.” Although this movement started with banking use cases and gaining access to data held by banks, it is now expanding to a range of other verticals including brokerage and mutual fund services, insurance, telecommunications, utilities, health and more.

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

Over the last few years, the payments landscape has massively changed. The use of advanced technologies by traditional and new financial services providers, including fintech, Big Tech and challenger banks, have increased the level of competition and the overall degree of innovation. In the open finance scenario, public administration, corporate and retail customers are enabled to choose among a variety of products, that go beyond traditional banking functionalities.

whitePaper | April 3, 2023

Every day, businesses send hundreds of billions of dollars in payments through the global banking system. But many organizations fail to recognize how inefficient – and costly – this process really is. Transaction costs may be relatively small on a per-transaction basis. But when one considers the sheer number and value of payments that are made each year, the tally of fees can reach into the billions of dollars.