FDIC: US Banks Net Operating Revenue Hits $1 Trillion for 2023
US corporations are contributing to record bank profits as the industry’s net operating revenue broke the $1 trillion barrier in 2023. …
Why the Recent Visa Mastercard Settlement May Be Bad News for Merchants
Mastercard and Visa have reached a settlement with merchants over a long-standing swipe fee case, with the card giants agreeing to reduce interchange fees and permit more flexibility on surcharging and anti-steering rules. …
Choose Your Payment Processor Wisely: Avoid Common Traps with These 8 Red Flags to Look Out For
I’ve helped a lot of large merchants find the right payments partner(s) over the years and been involved throughout the buying process, from identifying key requirements and challenges early on, right through to negotiating the contract and deploying the solution. …
Recent Insights for Advancing Card Payment Fraud Prevention
Previously I’ve written about how merchants can reduce bank declines thereby increasing revenue and reducing customer friction. However, much bigger problems for merchants are typically i) reducing false positives and ii) preventing actual fraud. …
Reducing Bank Declines: a Strategic Approach for Merchants
In my previous blog I discussed the difficulties merchants have with spurious bank declines – where the transaction looks good to the merchant but the cardholder’s bank declines it for something other than, say, “insufficient funds”. …
Airlines: The Real Cost of Banking & Payments has Doubled Since 2019
So, What’s the Problem? Legacy arrangements and systems have helped the banking and payments industry generate billions in extra profit from the Airline industry. …
Are Gremlins Really to Blame For Your Card Payment Woes?
I listened to a podcast recently with Patrick McKenzie. Patrick is a serial software entrepreneur and business all-rounder who worked at Stripe and still advises them on product and company strategy. …
Official Data shows that Businesses are Handing Billions Extra to their Banks
The daily updates in the media about the path of interest rates for next year are unhelpful. …
Bank of England: Very Low Yields on Bank Funds
UK interest rates have stabilised and this is reflected in the returns by UK banks to the Bank of England. However, the statistics published by the Bank of England are not very clear. According to the data the effective rate for outstanding ‘sight deposits’ of non-financial corporations is 2.56%. …
ECB: Euro Corporations getting poor yields from their banks
The results of the EuroFinance Corporate Treasurers 2023 Survey makes interesting reading. Treasurers were asked what effective rate should a company earn on bank funds? …
