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Strategic agreement between EPI and EuroPA: building a unified European digital payments network

Finextra

EuroPA is an alliance of national digital payment champions – 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁(Italy), 𝗕𝗶𝘇𝘂𝗺 (Spain), 𝗠𝗕 𝗪𝗔𝗬 (Portugal), 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝗸 (Poland), 𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗦 (Greece), and 𝗩𝗶𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗣𝗮𝘆 (Nordics). It accelerates the adoption of A2A payments across all transaction types: P2P, B2C, C2B, B2B WHAT ABOUT THE DIGITAL EURO?

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The Digital Payments Preferences That Cross The Generational Divide

PYMNTS

For financial institutions (FIs) and enterprises that seek to pivot to meet the growing demand for digital payments, observing and reacting to shifts in how different generations prefer to pay will be critical during the pandemic and beyond, according to Royal Cole , executive vice president, FI payment solutions at FIS.

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The Changing Landscape of Banking Experience with RTP

Faster Payments Council

While real-time payments (RTP) was previously considered an infrastructure luxury, it has now become a common method of payment in many parts of the world. This adoption has changed the payments landscape. Digital and RTP payments have dramatically accelerated the pre-existing, but slow-moving trend, away from cash and checks.

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AeroPay Closes Seed Round Led By Continental Investors

PYMNTS

In July, AeroPay launched an initiative aimed at legal cannabis businesses, rolling out a new series of compliant digital payment solutions for the sector. "We We have a guiding conviction that payments remain an underinvested and under-innovated category in C2B and B2B commerce," said Paul M.

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Deluxe CEO: B2B Payments Will See Resurgence In Paper Checks

PYMNTS

The company already has what he termed a “material footprint” in digital payments and cloud-delivered services. The B2B space has had to adapt, too, he said — and that points to a longer trend where checks will hang on and co-exist with digital payments for a good long while. On The Path To Digitization.

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Meeting Consumer Demand With Speed-Of-Life Payments

PYMNTS

It has these newer, faster methods running across core payments infrastructure that was not built to support so many, so fast. Although there is no physical “supply” in digital payments, the need to keep up with consumer’s expectations is just as real and can pose just as much of a challenge. Alphabet Soup.

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Wielding Africa’s Mobile Penetration To Ease X-Border B2B Payments

PYMNTS

To overcome these challenges and drive mobile payments penetration in the B2B arena, MFS Africa recently announced its acquisition of Beyonic , a digital payments FinTech servicing small businesses and FinTechs across east Africa. That said, cash continues to be the dominant payment method in many parts of the continent.

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