Top 5 Innovations in the Payments Landscape You Should Know by the End of 2020 The notions of interoperability, harmonization, transparency and unification have been popular in financial payments and messaging standards in 2020. As technological developments evolve and offer so many advantages for the businesses in every field, the financial ecosystem has had [...]
Achieving a Unified Payments Landscape with Payments Hub A unified payments system: Payments Hub Platform The payments eco-system has been struggling with the challenges related to increasing volumes of payments and customer expectations as well as the new innovative developments in the payments atmosphere that caused fragmentation and complexity eventually. The currently used payments [...]
Real-Time Payments: Re-defining the Payments Landscape The real-time payments system is a money transfer innovation that offers instantaneous payments, real-time communication, ubiquity and extensive data transfer between banks and banking systems. Payments can be made and received 24/7, 365 days including holidays and weekends. Together with the rapid improvements in mobile technology and digital [...]
Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain: Potentials and Challenges Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a new method of data validation that does not require a trusted authority and it enables to record, share and synchronize data across a distributed network of data stores and participants in a transparent way. Distributed ledgers (DLs) simply refer to [...]
Open Banking Framework in the Age of Digitalization Open Banking and the API Open Banking is defined as the secure method for businesses and consumers to exchange data in return for receiving faster payment-related or other innovative banking services by the new or already existing companies. It promises to revolutionize the whole system of [...]
Updates on RTGS Renewal Programme The Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service is defined as the infrastructure which holds accounts for the banks, building societies and other institutions by offering a final and risk-free settlement via real-time money transfers among these accounts. In the economy of the United Kingdom, this service has a crucial place [...]
Compliance Challenges for Financial Institutions in the ‘New Normal’ The ‘new normal’ in the financial framework The effects of COVID-19 in the financial world reflected themselves in the operational as well as the regulatory side. As the limitations in the on-location business and travel restrictions appeared in the face of the pandemic, it has [...]
Better Customer Experience and Compliance via Digital Onboarding What is digital onboarding? Digital onboarding, also called as remote or online onboarding, is a process of acquiring new customers via digital tools so that they can access the services and products provided by the financial institutions in a more user-friendly, simpler and faster way. Since [...]
TARGET Consolidation Project of the Eurosystem: Benefits and Challenges TARGET consolidation project was prepared and launched by the Eurosystem and scheduled to November 2021 with an aim to consolidate the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems of TARGET2 and T2S (each of which will be explained in detail below) by improving them technically and functionally [...]
These Trends Are Changing the Payments Industry in UAE Transition to a cashless economy The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has one of the most dynamic, innovative and liberal economies in the Middle East and in the world too through its large amounts of investments in the infrastructural and technological developments. The UAE is also [...]
