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Open Banking Payment Methods
Open banking payments are revolutionizing financial transactions by enabling secure, customer-author...
Read moreHow localising prices improves conversion
If you sell globally, then pricing locally removes payment friction and helps boost revenue.
Retail and Covid-19: post-lockdown quick fixes
Commerce has changed in the last three months. Retailers have had to adapt quickly to Coronavirus co...
How to improve online conversion
Small tweaks to checkout UX, fraud screening and payment acceptance can realise potentially big conv...
The role of the store post-Covid-19
To what extent will the post-Covid store of the future be like the store of the past? And how has th...
The 6 most common reasons for chargebacks
In the next in our chargebacks series, we examine the six most common reasons for chargebacks. We ex...
Past predictions about the future of payments
It’s human nature to want to know what the future will hold, so we make calculated estimates and, wh...
Chargeback FAQ - 10 Common Chargeback Questions
In this post we'll look at ten common questions on the subject of chargebacks.
Get up and running quickly with pay-by-link
As shops plan to reopen and implement social distancing due to Coronavirus, businesses are looking f...
How do I get paid during Covid-19? Let me count the ways…
Coronavirus restrictions have meant that businesses are having to adapt their trading models. And th...
Retailing in the time of Covid
We’re living in strange retail times. With Covid lockdowns in place, shops shuttered or reopening un...
Strong customer authentication: ready, test, go…
Merchants in Europe and the UK are getting ready for the new strong customer authentication requirem...
The exceptions which prove the rule
Where there are laws, there are loopholes. Where there are conditions, there are caveats. New EU str...
Streamlining payment reminders with pay-by-link
Not all sales are In-Over-Out. That’s when the customer comes into a shop, goods are exchanged over ...
Strong customer authentication: mythbuster
The EU strong customer authentication requirements have evolved over time with the publication of va...
Contactless limits to increase
Various countries are increasing contactless card limits following Coronavirus outbreak
Information security beyond PCI DSS
In the modern economy, data equals money. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and others have built whol...
Securing telephone payments
Every business needs to make the process of taking card details over the telephone secure and effici...
5 tips for maintaining good security
Sometimes good security hygiene is not about shiny, new tools or big-budget initiatives. It’s about ...
Pay-by-link for the hotel sector
PXP Financial has recently announced a new partnership with Prommt, the payment request platform, to...
Alternative payments…what should you be offering?
No-one visits a shop, restaurant or website to pay for something. Similarly, when it comes to gaming...