The Field Guide to Global Payments
The Field Guide to Global Payments

Author: Sophia Goldberg

Publisher:

Published: 2022-06-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780578295268

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The payments industry is complex and quickly changing. From the origins of card-basedtransactions, to the vast world of digital wallets, to the emerging land of decentralizedfinance and cryptocurrencies, it can be hard to know where to start as a consumer ormerchant better looking to understand how money moves in the twenty-first century.In The Field Guide to Global Payments, payments industry veteran and entrepreneurSophia Goldberg offers a smart, compressive course on payments, covering theevolution of the industry, surveying the current global payments landscape, and lookingforward into emerging payment technologies.The payments industry underpins the entire modern globalized economy. It's hard forsomeone starting off to know what they don't know. With this book, readers will finallyhave access to a high-level overview of this crucial but complex space. This is a bookfor anyone who is either interested in payments or in a role that touches payments -that could be an accounting team who processes payments, someone starting a jobwithin a payments company or payments team, business owners looking to betterunderstand funds flow and subscriptions models from a payments perspective, orexecutives who want to learn more about the mechanics of where much of their revenueliterally comes from.In this day and age, payments should no longer be an afterthought for any merchant ororganization. It's time to dig in and really understand the players and networks throughwhich our money runs.

Payments Systems in the U.S.
Payments Systems in the U.S.

Author: Carol Coye Benson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982789728

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"Payments Systems in the U.S." is a comprehensive description of the systems - (cards, checks, cash, ACH, etc.) that move money between and among consumers and enterprises in the U.S. In clear and lively writing, the authors explain what they systems are, how they work, who uses them, who provides them, who profits from them and how they are changing. Anyone working in the payments industry - or needing to use payments products - can benefit from understanding this. The second edition updates information on card, ACH, and check systems, as well as providing perspective on developments in emerging payments.

Payment Systems
Payment Systems

Author: D. Rambure

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-09-17

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 023022721X

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Payment systems are changing profoundly through regulation, technology and competition from new entrants. This is a comprehensive introduction and reference on payment systems, covering their structure, international systems and settlements, and focusing on electronic transfers. Concludes with the future of the payments business.

The PAYTECH Book
The PAYTECH Book

Author: Susanne Chishti

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1119551919

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The only globally-crowdsourced book on the future of payments (“PayTech”), offering comprehensive understanding of a rapidly evolving industry at the centre of global commerce The movement of money between individuals, organisations and governments is crucial to the world economy. The payments industry has undergone immense transformation ­– new regulations, technologies and consumer demands have prompted significant changes to the tools, products and use cases in payments, as well as presented lucrative opportunities for entrepreneurs and FinTech professionals. As payment technologies become faster and more efficient, companies and investors are increasingly favouring PayTech innovation due to better customer experience, increased revenues and manageable risks. The PAYTECH Book brings together a diverse collection of industry experts to provide entrepreneurs, financial services professionals and investors with the answers they need to capitalise on the highly profitable PayTech market. Written by leaders in the global FinTech and payment sectors, this informative volume explains key industry developments and presents valuable first-hand insights from prominent industry practitioners. Contributors include advisors and consultants to the payments and financial services industry, entrepreneurs and business owners utilising cutting-edge PayTech capabilities, academic researchers exploring the social-political-economic impact of PayTech and many others. Detailed chapters cover essential topics such as cybersecurity, regulation and compliance, wholesale payments and how payment systems currently work and how PayTech can improve them. This book: Defines PayTech and identifies its key players Discusses how PayTech can transform developed markets and accelerate growth in emerging economies Describes how PayTech fits into the larger FinTech ecosystem Explores the future of PayTech and its potential as an agent of social change and financial inclusion Provides diverse perspectives on investment in PayTech and what consolidation and expansion will look like The PAYTECH Book: The Payment Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and FinTech Visionaries is an indispensable source of information for FinTech investors and entrepreneurs, managers from payments companies and financial services firms and executives responsible for payments in government, corporations, public sector organisations, retailers and users of payments.

Global Payments
Global Payments

Author: Carol Coye Benson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780982789766

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Glenbrook's "Global Payments" provides the go-to-answers to the big questions about global payments. In clear and lively writing, the author explains the common model behind national payments systems all over the world, what actually happens in a cross-border payment, and how fintech innovators are changing the industry. The book describes payments innovations in the rails, in the products and services, and new out-of-the-box alternatives. It explores real-time retail payments (aka Faster Payments) and how these systems are facilitating financial inclusion. Anyone in the payments industry - from anywhere in the world - can benefit from understanding this big-picture view.

Electronic Value Exchange
Electronic Value Exchange

Author: David L. Stearns

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1849961395

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Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based on research gathered from personal documents and interviews with key actors; investigates, for the first time, both the technological and social infrastructures necessary for the VISA system to operate; supplies a detailed case study, highlighting the mutual shaping of technology and social relations, and the influence that earlier information processing practices have on the way firms adopt computers and telecommunications; examines how “gateways” in transactional networks can reinforce or undermine established social boundaries, and reviews the establishment of trust in new payment devices.

The Future of Payment Systems
The Future of Payment Systems

Author: Stephen Millard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-09-17

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1134071302

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Drawing on wide-ranging contributions from prominent international experts and discussing some of the most pressing issues facing policy makers and practitioners in the field of payment systems today, this volume provides cutting-edge perspectives on the current issues surrounding payment systems and their future. It covers a range of continually important topics, including: the form payment systems might take in the future the risks associated with this evolution the techniques being deployed to assess these risks and the implications these risks have for the respective roles of the public and private sector. Produced in association with the Bank of England, this book is fascinating reading for practitioners and policy makers in the field of payment systems, as well as students and researchers engaged with the economics of payments and central banking policy.

Payment System Technologies and Functions
Payment System Technologies and Functions

Author: Masashi Nakajima

Publisher: Engineering Science Reference

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781615206452

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"This book analyzes the evolutionary trends, functions and mechanisms of payment systems and presents an in-depth explanation of how these trends led to the reduction of settlement risk and the importance of such mechanisms that have contributed to the evolutionary progress of payment systems"--Résumé de l'éditeur.

The Anatomy of the Swipe
The Anatomy of the Swipe

Author: Ahmed Siddiqui

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781641374477

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Have you ever wondered what happens during a swipe of a credit card? Every major tech company will become a payments company. Yet, not many people understand how payment systems in the US work. Those that do "get it" are unlocking multi-billion dollar opportunities. If you've ever wondered what happens when you actually swipe/dip/tap your credit card or debit card then The Anatomy of the Swipe breaks down the details in the simplest manner possible. Here are some questions answered within these pages: How does money move from my credit card to my favorite coffee shop? How can I build a neo-bank? How can I build my own debit or credit card? How can I accept card based payments? The Anatomy of the Swipe speaks to software developers and entrepreneurs who are looking at implementing card-based payments for the first time, merchants who want to be able to accept payments for a website or store, or those who want to issue their own debit/credit card. This book walks beginners through modern innovations created because of card-based payments, as well as the motivations and revenue models of each party in the payments ecosystem.

Credit Card Processing for Sales Agents
Credit Card Processing for Sales Agents

Author: Bill Pirtle

Publisher: Mpct Publishing Company

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9780982611661

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Book will use the best minds in the credit card processing industry writing in their areas of expertise to help train processing agents.