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Open Banking Payment Methods
Open banking payments are revolutionizing financial transactions by enabling secure, customer-author...
Read moreThe All-important Role of the Payments Team
We got together with Ana Stef, Global Head of Payments at NetBet, one of the biggest online gaming g...
The exciting growth of payments in the US Gaming Industry
The US gaming industry continues to grow exponentially, making it a highly exciting place to be for ...
Gaming jargon 101
The online gaming sector has become big business, but even for merchants the terminology can by myst...
PXP Financial - Log4shell security response
On 9th December 2021, Information security researchers reported the discovery of a critical vulnerab...
Your secret weapon to making omni-channel a reality
Omni-channel retailing is trending high again, particularly during the pandemic. We explain how choo...
How to increase online conversion with local payment methods
Don’t lose customers for the simple reason they can’t pay you. We explain why local or alternative p...
PXP Financial powers payments for hospitality app. Book4Time
As the hospitality sector re-opens, the payment experts continue to support businesses in the hospit...
Top checkout UX tips to boost online conversion
How small tweaks to the checkout user experience can deliver potentially big conversion gains.
Strong customer authentication when the final amount is not known
Sometimes neither the merchant nor the customer know the final transaction amount when an online ord...
How to turn contactless payment to your advantage
As well as prompting a shift towards online shopping, Covid has affected how people pay in-store. We...
Get more out of your payment partner during peak season
With peak trading season just around the corner, we consider some principles to guide retailers’ res...
Retail and payments in the COVID-19 era – how retailers can survive the second lockdown
While every sector has been affected by COVID-19 in some way, the retail industry has experienced on...
Hospitality and payments in the COVID-19 era - how the digitisation of payments is supporting the industry
For obvious reasons, the hospitality sector has suffered as a result of COVID-19 and the restriction...
New report ‘Supporting Businesses and Payments through COVID’
London, UK, 26 October - PXP Financial, the global expert in acquiring and payment processing servic...
Strong customer authentication: merchant-initiated transactions (MITs)
Merchant initiated transactions are out of scope for strong customer authentication. However, there ...
Strong customer authentication for busy people
If your business accepts card payments, you’ve probably heard about the new strong customer authenti...
How PCI DSS requirements help inform third-party risk management
Globalisation and competitive pressure is leading to greater outsourcing and more complex supplier r...
How to manage third-party risk
Collaboration is one of the strengths of the payment industry. But any strength can also be weaponis...
The four-step plan to optimising the checkout experience
When you look at the customer conversion line, there are many moving parts and hundreds of factors t...
The 4Ts of risk management
Tolerate, terminate, treat and transfer — we look at the 4Ts of risk management.