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Open Banking Payment Methods

Open banking payments are revolutionizing financial transactions by enabling secure, customer-author...

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Open Banking Payment Methods

Discover how open banking payments revolutionize transactions with faster, secure, and cost-effective solutions for businesses and consumers. Explore more today!

Digital Wallets Explained

Aiming to make payments understandable, we launched a blog series titled "The Rise of Digital Wallets." Let's uncover what are digital wallets.

Expert Insights: iGaming

To get to grips with the exciting developments, we sat down with Desislava Stranska, our Senior Sales and Business Development Manager, who gave her expert opinion on the payment landscape of iGaming. 

Data security: defence in depth

A layered approach to security is the most effective. In this post, we provide the low-down on detective, responsive and recovery controls, in addition to preventative ones. 

How to manage third-party risk

Collaboration is one of the strengths of the payment industry. But any strength can also be weaponised as a weakness. We examine some of the ways that businesses can manage the risks of collaborating with third parties.

Retailing in the time of Covid

We’re living in strange retail times. With Covid lockdowns in place, shops shuttered and supply chains under stress, retailers are looking for new ways to reach customers.

Streamlining payment reminders with pay-by-link

At PXP Financial, payments is our core business. That’s why we’ve recently partnered with Prommt to enable secure pay-by-link or SMS payments. It’s ideal for any business that takes partial, instalment or recurring payments.

Contactless limits to increase

The spending limit for contactless card payments is being increased in several European countries. This is to support customers in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Information security beyond PCI DSS

The payment card industry introduced data security standards (PCI DSS) more than a dozen years ago. This has helped embed a security culture around sensitive card data. These learnings can be scaled companywide. We offer advice on how.

Securing telephone payments

Every business needs to make the process of taking card details over the telephone secure and efficient. Prommt is a payment request platform that will transform the way you secure and collect payments over the phone.

5 tips for maintaining good security

Sometimes good security hygiene is not about shiny, new tools or big-budget initiatives. It’s about a few simple things done consistently and well. Here are five top tips for maintaining good security.

Pay-by-link for the hotel sector

PXP Financial has recently announced a new partnership with Prommt, the payment request platform, to enable secure pay-by-link via Email and SMS, complementing PXPs existing payments channels.

How to save your business millions

All too often some of the world's most recognised retail brands have something alarming in common: the number of staff and hours dedicated to payment reconciliation. Could they be saving millions?

Tokenisation for hoteliers

Tokenisation is great from a security point-of-view. But many hoteliers are seeing ancillary benefits around operational, cost and marketing efficiencies.

Making your staff mobile

People buy from people. As more retailers roll out mPOS in their stores, they are finding that making staff mobile has implications for service and training.

Preparing for the peaks

No sooner is summer over, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas seem to be around the corner. How can retailers prepare for the peaks of peak trading?

The merchants guide to PSD2, SCA and 3DS

The Second Payment Services Directive – or PSD2 – is a directive created by the EU countries to regulate payment services and providers in the European Economic Area (EEA). PSD2 has already been passed into law in most EU countries, including the United Kingdom.

SOC 2 – PXP Financial

PXP Solutions, the powerful system behind PXP Financial, has been through a rigorous auditing process to receive the coveted SOC 2 accreditation.

Reducing data security liability

Our hosted point to point encryption (P2PE) and tokenisation services help you take card payment without taking card data, thereby reducing your liability and PCI DSS scope.

Making your staff mobile

As more and more of our customers roll out mPOS in their stores they are finding that making staff mobile has implications for service and training.

The unwelcome guest

In the hospitality business, your aim is to make guests feel welcome. But there is one exception: hackers. They are the unwelcome guests on your network. Here are some tips to keep them at bay.