Creative use of branch window space by Barclays, helping their customers navigate their mobile banking app. Picture: Mark O’Keefe This helpful piece of customer education reminded me of a piece I wrote a few months ago about education being the secret ‘sauce’ for the successful implementation of payments regulation…. Education: the secret ‘sauce’ for the successful implementation of payments regulation It’s 1997 […]
Crumpled up in your coat pocket or bag, you’ll probably find a receipt. That never-read, rarely-used and bin-destined piece of paper is the acknowledgement that something has been paid for or that goods have been received. The oldest, discovered, receipt confirmed the sale five sheep, one lamb and four grass-fed male kids. It was written on a piece of clay […]
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The planet found itself gripped by a virus that knows no boundaries, democratic nations wilfully complied with imprisoning STAY AT HOME pleas, and ordinarily over crowded bustling cities were brought to a peaceful but eerie standstill. Even as we seem to be easing out of the crisis, what are small businesses most worried about whilst trying to work through (in […]
Jonathan Williams, Principle Consultant and Director of Mk2 Consulting has published analysis of Payment Statistics for the UK from January to June 2020. Jonathan writes: There has been a lot of discussion of the economic impact of the lockdown measures on consumers and businesses. Suggestions of significant impact to GDP have been shown in other data sets but one source […]
The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which celebrates collaboration and innovation across the emerging payments industry, has launched Project Recovery to help the UK FinTech make informed decisions and equip them to survive in the post pandemic world. The FinTech sector has a key role to play in the UK’s economic recovery and so the aim of Project Recovery is to […]
Introduction Cashflow remains the lifeblood of any business organisation and getting the monies in on time and with minimum fuss and effort can be critical to viability and profitability. Whilst the payment method, or perhaps more appropriately payment methods, have to work for the recipient organisation (the payee), they have to be effective and appealing to the payer. Today, it […]
Today, 5 May 2020, Tony Craddock from the Emerging Payments Association shared news on the launch of Project Recovery / Reboot. On behalf of Eazy Collect I am pleased to lead this new group. Tony describes the purpose of the EPA’s Project Recovery / Reboot as a new working group, led by Mike Chambers of Eazy Collect and mentored by […]
A guest blog by Don Hollingum from Direct Debit 101. For more information visit: www.directdebit101.co.uk Why use Direct Debit? Direct Debit, the product, has been working for thousands of businesses, both large and small for over 50 years, and its usage continues to grow both in terms of the number of organisations that use it and the number of payments collected […]
A guest blog by Don Hollingum from Direct Debit 101. For more information visit: http://www.directdebit101.co.uk Why use Direct Debit? Direct Debit, the product, has been working for thousands of businesses, both large and small for over 50 years, and its usage continues to grow both in terms of the number of organisations that use it and the number of payments […]
Moving the “UK Fintech Week 2020″ to an online format was a smart move – especially as it meant that I could join the excellent ‘The Future of Cash Post COVID-19” webinar moderated by Natalie Ceeney and supported by Graham Mott and John Howells from LINK (the operator of the UK’s ATM network) – all from the comfort of a […]
A guest blog by John Doyle, Managing Director, The Payments Business. To find out more visit: https://thepaymentsbusiness.com The world is divided into two types of leaders (well there are probably many more, but we’ll settle on two for now). Corporate Leaders who successfully build businesses and Industry Leaders who successfully impact on society or economic behavior. Gerard is clearly the […]
I don’t know much about politics in Northern Ireland and I know even less about the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) but after just 30 pages in it looks like Sam McBride’s Burned is going to be an engaging read. As a payments consultant a sentence written by Sam certainly made me think: The image …. was of a ventriloquist consultant […]
Sarah Kocianski from 11:FS provides the low-down on the possible pain points of SCA, the effects it may have on consumers and what looks like the best approaches to rolling out the initiative. Payment fraud is on the rise. As part of the EU’s PSD2 regulation, SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) has been written into law by all EU countries. The […]
Lloyds Bank announces Eazy Collect as first PSP client onboarded to Lloyds Bank Gem, the newest Cash Management and Payments Platform At the recent Lloyds Bank Payments Innovation Conference, Steve Everitt, MD Head of Payments for LBG Global Transaction Banking, paid tribute to Eazy Collect being the first client to adopt the new platform focused on delivering leading payment management […]
