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Open Banking Payment Methods
Open banking payments are revolutionizing financial transactions by enabling secure, customer-author...
Read moreNew 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.
How 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...
A beginner’s guide to risk assessments
By Graeme Zwart, Head of Security Time, budget and resource are finite for every organisation. So, s...
Retailing in the time of Covid
We’re living in strange retail times. With Covid lockdowns in place, shops shuttered or reopening un...
What bicycles can tell us about information security
By Graeme Zwart, Head of Security A psychology paper on the science of bicycles provides some useful...
The Dunning-Kruger effect in information security
By Graeme Zwart, Head of Security A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But when it comes to info...