Payments
Will CBDCs be built on digital identity?
Tuesday 17 May 2022
Economists, governments, financial institutions, and crypto players are showing a growing interest in the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The term refers to a digital token of a country’s official currency, providing the public with direct digital access to central bank reserves. Issued and regulated by a national monetary authority or central bank,
- Published in Content, Identity, Opinion, Payments, Regulation
Transforming Customer Experience with Payments
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Transforming Customer Experience with Payments Thanks to the emergence of services like Netflix, Uber and Amazon, which place customer experience at the centre of their proposition, consumers now expect a frictionless experience when they shop with all retailers. It’s no longer acceptable for payments to be overly complex and make the purchasing journey inconvenient. One
- Published in Content, Embedded Finance, FTT Lending
Modern card programmes for SMEs – FTT Chats Lending 3.0 series
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Alex Miles, UK Managing Director at Capital On Tap joins us in the latest of our FTT Chats – powered by Marqeta. Over the coming weeks, we are sitting down with several digital players who are reshaping the lending landscape for the next generation of borrowers. In this chat, Alex is joined by our Chief
- Published in Content, Embedded Finance
Can direct debits survive in the digital world?
Tuesday 15 March 2022
A very interesting guest post from our friends at Tribe Payments on the future of direct debit payments and what may replace them. Are Faster Payments and VRPs the killer combination? Direct debits (BACs) and CHAPS payments have long served a useful purpose, largely due to their high transaction limit. But this dynamic changed with
- Published in Content, Embedded Finance, FTT Lending
Why consumers don’t care about fintech
Tuesday 11 January 2022
How can we create payment experiences that inspire genuine brand affection? FTT Embedded Finance UK and Europe presented an exclusive panel discussion with Derek Stewart (Founder and CEO at PAYSME), Otabek Nuritdinov (Co-Founder and CEO at StormPay), Alex Reddish (Managing Director at Tribe Payments) and moderated by Tasneem Harnekar (Global Head of Operations at Alchemy
- Published in Blog, Community, Community & Events, Content, Customer Experience, Embedded Finance, Payments, Video
Fintech for travel – Embedded for a rebound?
Tuesday 05 October 2021
Fintech for Travel – Embedded for a Rebound? The  travel and tourism industries were among the hardest hit from lockdowns and restrictions introduced by governments around the world to reduce the spread of COVID. According to statistics from the Office for National Statistics, in Q2 2020 overseas residents spent 97% less than in Q2 2019 on their visits to the UK, highlighting the stark
- Published in Content, Embedded Finance
It all starts with a payment
Tuesday 28 September 2021
At FTT Embedded Finance North America, we were joined by an impressive group of industry leaders to explore the topic of embedded payments. Industry practitioners Kothai Senthil , Vice President, Head of Payments, Albertsons, David Tax, Senior Manager, Payments Strategy and Innovation, TD Bank, Matteo Gamba, Product Lead Payments, Wayfair and Manash Bhattacharjee, Head of
- Published in Content, Embedded Finance
Make payment optimization a part of your core payment strategy powered by Very Good Security
Tuesday 21 September 2021
Getting locked in with a single Payment service provider (PSP) can lead to loss of flexibility, higher payment processing costs, lost sales due to false positive declines, and loss of control over payments data – putting a strain on revenues. Fortunately, payment optimization is an easy-to-integrate remedy to vendor lock-in. Download Make Payment Optimization a
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Marqeta Keynote – Evolution or revolution: A payments journey
Tuesday 14 September 2021
What does the emergence of embedded finance mean for technology innovators, financial service providers, and non-financial businesses? FTT Embedded Finance North America included an impressive fireside chat with an embedded finance pioneer, Jason Gardner, CEO of Marqeta and Simon Torrance, CEO of Embedded Finance & Super App Strategies and Executive Working Group Member at World Economic Forum. It is a fascinating discussion on the problems that embedded finance seeks to address at scale,
- Published in Community & Events, Content, Embedded Finance, Fintech
How can financial institutions thrive in an era of embedded finance?
Tuesday 31 August 2021
The financial services business model has changed significantly during the past decade, as have the solutions that consumers leverage to manage their financial lives. Around the world, we are seeing more examples of how banking services have started to merge into non-financial applications. Unbundling is slowly changing the way financial services are delivered and consumed,
- Published in Content, Embedded Finance, Fintech, Innovation