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From open banking to open finance and beyond: The future of financial data-sharing

The Payments Association

From open banking to open finance and beyond: The future of financial data-sharing March 18 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? The evolution of open banking into open finance, examining regional regulatory approaches and adoption trends. Why is it important?

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How Do You Offset Credit Card Processing Fees?

EBizCharge

Credit card processing fees are the costs associated with card transactions that businesses must pay to accept and process credit or debit cards from customers. and can cover the costs associated with transferring funds between banks, fraud prevention, and compensating card networks, payment processors, and issuing banks.

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Merchant-facing regulation: What merchants need to know in 2025

The Payments Association

These developments will impact merchant compliance, cost structures, customer experience, and operational risk. Non-compliance could lead to regulatory enforcement by national authorities, as well as reputational harm and potential exclusion from EU markets. Why is it important? What’s next?

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How Companies Make Revenue from Payments and the Different Business Models

Clearly Payments

It encompasses various elements, including the target customer segment, value proposition, distribution channels, revenue streams, key resources, and cost structure. Established payment platforms have already cultivated extensive user bases, merchant networks, and partnerships with banks.

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In the mind of the merchant: Top challenges and priorities for the next 12 months

The Payments Association

It highlights key trends, such as open banking, tokenisation, and fraud prevention, which are crucial for merchants to remain competitive and secure. As the payments ecosystem continues to evolve with innovations like open banking, instant payments, and tokenisation, merchants are facing a host of challenges and opportunities.

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Future Friday: Drastically Downsizing the Bank "Branch"

Fintech Labs Insights

The number of traditional bank branch (1000+ square feet, fully staffed) are on the decline. While I appreciate the helpful people and wide-open spaces, most (note 2) bank branches are just too costly to support the declining "non digital" customer base. Opening accounts, especially for someone new to the bank 2.

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What is a White-Label Payment Gateway?

Ikajo

On the one hand, existing payment service providers can switch to a white-label payment gateway from their own payment solution if they feel it can no longer cover their needs regarding high transaction load, modern payment features, lack of integrated banks and payment providers, etc.