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Test automation for the 21st Century
Markets globally are as different as they are similar with innovations, regulations and even cultural differences deciding on how solutions are implemented. FinTech has been in focus when it comes to finding new and simple ways to bank, lend and pay. This means that there is constant change to the IT ecosystem:...
Read MoreAutomated Testing- The future of end-to-end lifecycle testing!
Disruptions in the 21st century have led to a revolution in the technology ecosystem across various stakeholders namely acquirers, merchants, banks, retailers and financial institutions. The unifying characteristic of these stakeholders is a constant need for change. New platforms, new products, new hardware and new channels...
Read MoreThe new era of transaction switching
With the increasing number of payment channels and methods, the complexity of transaction switching software is ever growing. Aspects like reliability, performance, low latency, resilience and security have become qualifiers rather than differentiators....
Read More21st century Payments-Why evolution is just not good enough!
The history of payment system products since the 1980s is one of gradual evolution. There have been few radical changes. Instead, products saw incremental enhancement over time, with many products all built on core code that was written in the 1980s and 1990s. Products like BASE24, Postilion, BASE24-eps and OPEN/2...
Read MoreCruise Control on the FinTech Highway
Depending on where you live, your life style, or preferences, you may own a car. Where I live, right in the middle of the United States, I need a car. Got to have one, no two ways around it. I need it to get to the store, to get the kids to school, to get…Anywhere! Now I like my car just fine. I have had it for just over nine years now and it has been mostly reliable. I can do most of the things that I want or need to do....
Read More21st Century ATMs in the digital world: Seamless Middle East
Our chief operating officer, Jim Tomaney, will be presenting: ‘21st Century ATMs in the digital world’ in the Cards and Payments Demo Theatre at 12.30pm on day two of the conference....
Read MoreOutrun the bear! Differentiation is the way to compete with scale
Rod Bungey, North America Sales Director, discusses innovation in the US payments market ahead of TRANSACT 2019....
Read MoreLooking to AI & Machine Learning in the ATM Space
David Lock, Senior AI product manager, discusses how AI and Machine Learning apply to the ATM space and how can they be used to develop advancements....
Read MoreApplying the brakes to the runaway train of technical debt
In 2008 the hubris of the financial sector that we serve finally caught up with itself. Mountains of consumer debt that had been packaged, re-sold and deferred turned out to be unserviceable and the whole edifice came tumbling down.Now commentators are asking whether any lessons have really been learned as consumer debt in some western economies st...
Read MoreThe Payments Switch - A Complex Fabric of Business and Technology
Payments switch is a complex fabric of functionality and technology, intricately woven to provide a solid platform. With the intent to deliver high throughput & resilience to the ever-changing field of payments services. From a bird’s eye view, it might seem as if payments switch is a generic platform used to transform...
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