Before and After — the Great Bitcoin Fork
Today, at 12:20pm UT, or 8:20am ET, Bitcoin split into two. One Bitcoin will be known as “Bitcoin” and enable Segwit2x, supported by most...
Three Steps to Driving International Remittance Growth
The days of traditional money transfer companies are numbered. Payments experts have predicted cryptocurrency, mobile wallets, P2P or...
The Link between Social Networks and Faster Payments
The push for faster payments has reached a fever pitch and almost all payment processors have some sort of solution. While each have...
Money Transfer Goes Social-The Facebook Land Grab
Last week both MoneyGram and Western Union announced the launch of SendBots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to bridge the gap...
FX Management – The most important SME tool You’ve Never Heard Of!
As most of you are aware, we live and work in a Global Economy. Whether it is importing the latest electronic device or sourcing a...
A Payments Fraud Primer
Since the earliest days of commerce there has been payments fraud. Hollywood has formed many of our views of how fraud takes place....
Are Money Orders Still Relevant?
The experts have been predicting the end of money orders for the last 20 years. Their obsolescence was so inevitable, that there has been...
Cross Border Payments: Why you need a Strong India Strategy
India’s importance is probably not new to you. For years, we have all sat in meetings, read articles or attended conferences that...
Mobile and Online are the Future, but Walk-in Bill Pay is Here to Stay (for now)
First, let’s acknowledge that Millennials are driving the long term trends of the payment industry. And that many studies show that they...
Can You Ever Be Completely Compliant?
Last week Western Union settled with regulators and agreed to pay $586 million to compensate fraud victims. Western Union admitted to...
