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Card Payments and Fraud Prevention in the Netherlands: Opportunities and Threats

Card Payments and Fraud Prevention in the Netherlands: Opportunities and Threats

While the card payment industry in the Netherlands presents strong opportunities for local banks, issuers should also be cautious of potential...
When Interchange is Capped, Infrastructure Matters More

When Interchange is Capped, Infrastructure Matters More

The UK High Court’s recent decision to uphold the Payment Systems Regulator’s (PSR) powers to regulate payment systems marks an important moment for...
The Rise of Tokenization-based Payment Solutions

The Rise of Tokenization-based Payment Solutions

The way that card payments work has evolved several times since the first credit cards arrived in the 1950s. Manual checks carried out by bank...
Interview with the Ciso: How Embedding Security Across Every Facet of Paymentology’s Business is Providing a Platform for Innovation

Interview with the Ciso: How Embedding Security Across Every Facet of Paymentology’s Business is Providing a Platform for Innovation

Security is paramount in the world of payments. And ensuring security across a payments business like Paymentology is a challenging and complex task...
Beyond the Sales: What Black Friday & Cyber Monday Reveal About the Modern Payments Ecosystem

Beyond the Sales: What Black Friday & Cyber Monday Reveal About the Modern Payments Ecosystem

Throughout Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we gain a glimpse into consumer behaviour and the resilience of global payment systems. While consumers...
Why Legacy Tech Can’t Keep Up With Modern-Day Needs

Why Legacy Tech Can’t Keep Up With Modern-Day Needs

As technological advances continue to drive innovation, legacy systems are increasingly ill-equipped to meet modern requirements. Once considered the...
Click to Pay: How This Digital Wallet is Changing Online Payments

Click to Pay: How This Digital Wallet is Changing Online Payments

The digital age has brought new levels of convenience to consumers the world over. Ecommerce with next-day delivery has revolutionised the way we...
The Hidden Costs of Choosing the Wrong Issuer Processor

The Hidden Costs of Choosing the Wrong Issuer Processor

On paper, your issuer processor might tick all the boxes: it handles authorisation, meets compliance requirements and appears cost-effective. But...
Scaling Securely Starts with the Right Issuer Processor

Scaling Securely Starts with the Right Issuer Processor

When it comes to the payments industry, trust is everything. Customers expect security, regulators demand compliance and internal teams rely on...
What to Look for in a Future-Ready Issuer Processor

What to Look for in a Future-Ready Issuer Processor

Progress waits for no one, especially within the payments sector. Payment programmes are getting more ambitious and so are the teams behind them. As...
Who should consider Cards-as-a-Service?

Who should consider Cards-as-a-Service?

Launching a card programme has traditionally been a slow and costly process, often limited to large banks or well-funded fintechs; but with...
The Benefits of Cards-as-a-Service

The Benefits of Cards-as-a-Service

Launching a card programme has traditionally been a long, expensive and complex process, as businesses needed to build banking infrastructure,...
What is Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS)?

What is Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS)?

Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS) allows businesses to offer their own payment cards, whether debit, credit or prepaid, without having to build the...
The Issuer’s Roadmap to Successful Card Issuance

The Issuer’s Roadmap to Successful Card Issuance

Every card in circulation is the result of multiple players working behind the scenes, from banks and fintechs to payment networks and processors....
Telcos’ roles in mobile banking – The top 4 business models and best practisesnd best practices

Telcos’ roles in mobile banking – The top 4 business models and best practisesnd best practices

In the previous article, we talked about the opportunities the world of financial markets offers to telcos. Today, as there are several avenues to...
Card Payment Fraud Trends in the UK: What Banks Need to Know

Card Payment Fraud Trends in the UK: What Banks Need to Know

Those of us working in the payments industry need to be aware of the shifting trends in fraud. These crimes affect our customers and our institutions...
Outgrowing Legacy: Why It’s Time to Rethink Your Issuer Processor

Outgrowing Legacy: Why It’s Time to Rethink Your Issuer Processor

The way people pay has changed. The pace of innovation has changed. What has not changed, at least not fast enough, is the core infrastructure many...

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Inside Snappi, Greece's First Digital-Only Bank
Inspiration | Getting Started

Inside Snappi, Greece's First Digital-Only Bank

November 19, 2025

Wallets Are Being Rewritten: Tokenization, Embedded Finance & the Future of Payments
Business Models | Technology

Wallets Are Being Rewritten: Tokenization, Embedded Finance & the Future of Payments

May 13, 2025

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