Blogs

Why aren’t banks extracting value from payments data?

As traditional financial institutions compete with big tech and fintech players, gaining access to and extracting value from payments data has become paramount. In fact, the Economist recently described data as now the most…

Hussam Kamel

17 December 2019

Blogs

Detecting Fraud in An Imbalanced Payments World

There’s been a lot in the press recently about the benefits Machine Learning offers when it comes to fraud detection. However, there are limitations. In reality, most of the payments transactions made…

Tamsin Crossland

16 December 2019

Blogs

Striving for ubiquity and interoperability in the US

The first Faster Payments Barometer, conducted by the US Faster Payments Council in partnership with Glenbrook, received over 700 responses with broad coverage across industry stakeholder groups such as financial institutions, core…

Gene Neyer

11 December 2019

Blogs

Should banks outsource payments?

At a recent webinar hosted by InstaPay on payments transformation, a question was posed to the speakers (from HSBC, Nordea and Icon Solutions); “Given the challenges involved in payments transformation and the…

Cindy Heidebluth

10 December 2019

Blogs

5 Key Takeaways from AFP Conference 2019

AFP Annual Conference drew a huge number of attendees this year and packed a lot into three days. People came from far and wide to attend and discuss all things payments, risk…

Jason Hayes

29 October 2019

Blogs

What does it take to win the payments transformation race?

The new report “The Payments Transformation Race: Criteria for Success” from Aite and Icon Solutions identified that banks that have a clear and robust payments transformation plan are more profitable than their…

Cindy Heidebluth

7 October 2019

Blogs

Do agile projects need Solution Architects?

Increasingly software development in large organisations is moving to agile methods, primarily scrum.  Agile empowers developers to design and build the system – where does solution architecture fit in? Agile and scrum…

Adam Richardson

19 August 2019

Blogs

5 takeaways from EBAday 2019

This year’s EBAday, hosted in Stockholm, focused on three themes: innovation, infrastructure and reinvention. It explored positive disruption, the opportunity of payments and examined the impact of real-time, roadmaps and regulations. Here…

Cindy Heidebluth

28 June 2019

Blogs

What does real-time payments really mean for corporates?

Faster Payments have changed the world for the better and many corporates are already reaping the benefits. During our recent webinar we heard from industry experts in the US, Steve Ledford –…

Kate Nelson

20 June 2019