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How Interac e-Transfer Won The Ubiquity Game In Canada

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After all, FIs are the ones who have to integrate the solutions they choose, ensuring that they work — and work fast — and keep their customers’ financial data secure. Typically, financial institutions (FIs) are a tougher sell than end users when it comes to new money-moving products. That’s why ubiquity is so desirable.

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Sleepless In Payments

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Which suggests that the focus in payments needs to shift toward keeping customer data secure , not just the payment card information they carry around in their physical or virtual wallets. SWIFT has recruited 45 or so banks and let it be known that it wants to throw its faster payments platform hat into the ring.