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Merchants

When seconds cost millions: Building true payments resilience for enterprise merchants

Banking

The women behind Bre-B How collaboration, consensus, and leadership helped transform payments in Colombia

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Merchants

Payments optimization in 2026: 6 stats every retailer should know

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Banking

Standing still is the real risk in cards. Q&A with cards & payments expert, Dean Wallace

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Banking

Beyond reimbursement: ACI鈥檚 Jackie Barwell on stopping APP scams while the money is still in flight

Fraud prevention is shifting. Learn how liability changes and real-time data sharing help banks stop scams before money moves.

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Banking

Real-time payments outrun the rules: Craig Ramsey on pay-by-bank and orchestration

Real-time payments are scaling faster than rules. Learn how orchestration, pay-by-bank, and regulation gaps are reshaping bank strategy.

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Banking

Pay-by-bank, tokenization, and the UK national payments vision: Paul Horlock, Santander UK

Santander鈥檚 Paul Horlock on UK payments strategy, pay鈥慴y鈥慴ank, and why programmable money鈥攏ot rails鈥攚ill define the next phase of growth.

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Banking

Is your card platform holding back growth? Legacy vs. modern explained

Learn how card platform choices impact cost, speed to market, and revenue, and why modernization is now a critical driver of growth.

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Banking

Bet on what鈥檚 new or fix what scales? John Dawson on payments innovation, AI, and trust

Payments are moving faster鈥攂ut trust must keep up. Learn what leaders must solve around AI accountability, fraud, and payments innovation.

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Banking

Agentic commerce, AI, and where payments really makes its money: Geoffrey Barraclough

Explore what drives payments revenue today and why AI and agentic commerce aren鈥檛 yet delivering at scale.

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Leadership in an era of transformation

Navigate the future of payments with insights on today鈥檚 barriers, leadership strategies, and ecosystem shifts.

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Banking

Why Age of Information (AoI) 聽is no longer a reliable indicator of trust

Learn how network visibility exposes hidden fraud risk inside digital identities and enables continuous, context-driven trust decisions

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Banking

Catching scams while the call is still live: JT鈥檚 Damian Di Carlo on the telco signal banks are missing

Payments miss key fraud signals. Discover how real-time telecom data helps detect and stop scams in progress.

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Banking

The end of the batch era

Dr Leda Glyptis explains why payments transformation fails on governance, habits, and operating models鈥攏ot technology鈥攊n a real鈥憈ime, irreversible world.

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Banking

Cards vs pay-by-bank: ACI鈥檚 Dean Wallace on why habit and convenience, not disruption, decides who dominates the checkout

Cards still dominate checkout despite pay-by-bank growth. Learn why habit, convenience, and acceptance shape payment choice.

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Banking

Barry Eichengreen on Money Beyond Borders, the Dollar鈥檚 Future, and the Rise of Stablecoins

The dollar鈥檚 erosion is gradual鈥攂ut the next inflection point will be decided by payments infrastructure, digital rails, and institutional trust.

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Banking

Why advisory and consulting firms should get to know ACI Connetic

ACI Connetic changes how banks approach payments modernization. Here鈥檚 why advisory firms should get ahead of it.