Market developments and payment strategy
- Trends in payments markets
- What has been gained so far and what needs to be solved
- Payments modernisation
- Developments in regional cooperation models (and links to global systems)
- Evolving payment market structure
- Role (and licensing) of non-banks as Payment Service Provider (PSP)
- Developing a profitable enterprise payments strategy
- Payments product management: balancing competition and cooperation
- New entrants and their challenge to the payments market
- Developments in industry standards (ISO, EMV etc)
Trends in payments methods, products and services
- Trends in payments methods
- Mobile and e-payments
- Developments in cross-border payments
- Correspondent banking (and its alternatives)
- The role of data in payment messages (for many stakeholders)
- New payment technologies
- The use of AI for payments functions
- Trade ecosystems and links to payments services
- Value-added services
- e-invoicing services
- Identity and authentication services
Faster payments
- Value-add for consumers and/or businesses
- Regulatory developments
- Economic models
- Impact on rulebooks
- Connection of FP schemes for cross-border payments
Central Bank Digital Currencies etc.
- Retail Central Bank Digital Currency payments
- Developments with non-fiat currencies (stable coins etc.)
Merchant payments
- Developments in cards payments for POS and webshops
- Online payments for (global) web merchants
- Developments in vending machine payments
- Interchange arrangement models
- Developments in cash payments (and co-existence with non-cash paymens)
- Replacing banknotes, coins and cheques
Real Time Gross Settlement Systems and settlement methods
- Payments sovereignty
- What are the next steps of the policies of central banks?
- Independence of central banks as RTGS operator
- Settlement methods and their features such as finality
- Central bank settlement services
- Settlement of retail payments
- Settlement of the payments legs of securities transactions
- Settlement of forex transactions
- Settlement of wholesale CBDC
Corporate payments and treasury management
- Financial supply chain management
- Cash -, currency – and liquidity management
- Payments data for reconciliation purposes
- Government payments (tax, social benefits, subsidies)
Payments platforms
- Changing processing models
Payments operations
- Reducing payment processing costs
- Outsourcing or not?
- Replacement of legacy systems?
Payment risk management and compliance
- Risk governance and risk culture
- Fraud management
- Cyber-security management
- AML-CFT management
- Counterparty risk management
- Management of sanctions risks
Social impact of payments
- Payment policies to foster financial inclusion
- Workers’ remittances
- Contribution of payments policies to the UN Sustainability Development Goals
- Impact of ESG principles on the actors in the payments industry
Regulatory initiatives impacting the payments market
- What are the regulatory expectations for the next steps?
- Importance of payments in a global landscape
- Consumer protection
- Follow up FSB cross-border roadmap recommendations
- Identity regulation (legal entities and natural persons such as eIDAS 2.0)
- Competition law
- FATF principles
- IPR
As such, each 100-page issue of Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems publishes:
Detailed, practical guidance on developing payments strategy – authoritative articles analysing best practice, emerging issues and new thinking in how to develop a profitable, customer-focused payments strategy, written by leading payments experts. Each offers the latest thinking in payments strategy and product development.
Market reviews – learn about emerging opportunities, trends, developments, new entrants and technologies in corporate, retail and wholesale markets for payments – as well as what is happening in other country’s payments industries – and how to apply this to your payments strategy and payment processing.
Case studies on managing business, risk and operational issues – ‘how-to’ actionable advice from payments experts at financial institutions detailing their practical experience and lessons learned in managing payment systems.
Central bank and regulator views – the latest thinking on security, efficiency and how payments systems can enhance financial sector stability, as well as how legal and regulatory changes create new business opportunities.
Essential reference-quality material for:
- CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs and CIOs with staff accountable for payments
- Suppliers of payment services
Payment strategists
Transaction banking managers
Card managers
Product managers
Treasury and liquidity managers
Correspondent banking managers
Operation and service managers
IT managers
Risk and compliance managers
- Buyers of payment services
Corporate treasurers
Treasurers of government agencies
Cash managers
Invoice managers
Web retailer managers
- Payment, card and identity schemes
Scheme managers
Legal counsels
Standards experts
- Market infrastructures
Clearing house and settlement experts
Payments and card network experts
- Central banks
Market infrastructure specialists
RTGS managers
Collateral managers
Oversight managers
- Service providers
Consultants
Auditors
Third party processors
Vendors of technology
- Industry associations with members interested in payments
- Academic institutions and business schools (Professors, lecturers, researchers and students with an interest in payments)
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