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30.03.2021

The Testing Challenge: Future Proofing

Synopsis Payment systems providers are in stiff competition with each other to quickly provide innovative products for their customers....

10.08.2020

Executive Interview – Payments Forecast

As the world adapts to the effects of the pandemic, we have been speaking to our network of contacts...

02.03.2020

The FCA’s View on Payments

The UK financial regulator recently released its ‘Sector Views’ report, which provides The Financial Conduct Authority’s opinion on how...

05.11.2019

Real-Time Payments – Winners, Losers and the Barriers to Innovation

Immediate Payments, Real-Time Payments, Faster Payments – wherever you are in the world you probably have a term for...

15.07.2019

Latest fintech research

In June, Capgemini released the World Fintech Report in Paris. The report’s headline conclusion was that although Open Banking has...

05.11.2018

Launching products is becoming more painful for banks…

All banks find launching new products and making changes to their operating systems to be a painful process. As...

16.07.2018

The wide-ranging costs of software failure

    Tim Nash of Finextra continues his series of articles with us talking about the payments industry. In this...

12.06.2018

TSB – And How the Industry Needs to Rethink Testing and Migrations

Nobody should rejoice in the problems faced by TSB in its migration to the Sabadell system.  TSB’s customer base...

30.05.2018

Testing: the regulatory imperative

  This week we have a guest post from Tim Nash of Finextra who talks about the importance of...

19.03.2018

How to achieve a competitive advantage in Open Banking

  Anyone reading the industry press will undoubtedly have seen opinion pieces on Open Banking. The fact that Open...

06.02.2018

Banking and Payments – The Latest Research

The research team at Iliad is always reviewing the analysis in the payments and banking industry, and we like...

22.01.2018

When technology fails – a two minute guide

When you live in the North of England as I do, Hawaii seems like the perfect place to be...

11.12.2017

Profitability and the future for US Banks

McKinsey has produced a paper about the next generation of banking in the United States, describing the challenges faced...

12.09.2017

World Economics Forum, analysis of the outlook for Fintech

The World Economic Forum has just completed one of the most thoroughgoing studies into the effect of fintech on...

26.07.2017

THE REAL COST OF OUTMODED TESTING

That the payments industry is being reshaped by unprecedented waves of change is not news. A constantly evolving regulatory...

09.05.2017

The biggest threat to the future of your payments business

I read a couple of articles this week which reinforced my belief that the biggest threat to most payments...

24.04.2017

How to reduce waste in your IT development budget

If you knew that you were wasting 15% of your IT development budget, how much effort would you put...

20.03.2017

APIs and How Their Potential for Innovation Could Be Stifled

Read the latest article from Anthony Walton who was talking to Payment Eye about the opportunity with APIs and...

21.12.2016

Review of the payments industry in 2016

From open APIs to omnichannel, from EMV chip cards to faster payments, it’s hard to put a finger on...

06.12.2016

How to migrate payment systems with total confidence

Anthony Walton, our CEO, explores how businesses and regulators can increase the safety and efficiency of migrating to new...

23.11.2016

Global Payments 2016 – McKinsey report on the future of the industry

Last month, McKinsey released a new report looking at the fundamental drivers of change in the payments industry across...

08.11.2016

Ten things a CEO should know about Testing Payments

In a previous role, I was fortunate enough to rise through the ranks to run the organisation, and I...

19.10.2016

Mitigating the ever-present threat of failed payments

What happens when payments fail? Read about Iliad as featured in Payment Eye this week. The full article can...

10.10.2016

Our CEO talks with PYMNTS about testing and innovation

Anthony Walton, the Iliad CEO, talks with Karen Webster and David Evans about payment testing. An overview of the article...

27.09.2016

Iliad outlines the challenges facing the industry on US Launch

Press Release – As the demand for immediate payments implementation grows in the United States, Iliad Solutions have identified...

08.09.2016

Hope is not a test strategy…

I’ve seen it too many times. Development projects in testing can end up in a tangled mess when the...

25.08.2016

Avoiding The Reputational Risk Of Failure

Our CEO, Anthony Walton, was talking with PYMNTS about innovation and how integration is one of the biggest challenges facing...

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