PSD2, SCA & 3D Secure 2 – Guide for Merchants
Learn the lingo Before we get into the practical implications of the new regulations, let’s take a moment to get […]
My Cashless Experience in Barcelona
In Israel the transition to going cashless has just started to take shape and there’s still a long road ahead. […]
The best places to get some sun in January 2019
Got the post holiday blues? Why be blue when you can be sunshine yellow with a spectacular winter-sun destinations? With […]
Chargeback disputes: the latest attempt by fraudsters to beat the system – and how to make sure they don’t!
We think of chargebacks as being a modern inconvenience and a feature of commercial dealings. Yet, documents dating as far […]
8 Steps Merchants Are Taking Right Now to Get Through the Holiday Season
‘Tis the season for merchants to focus on holiday sales. Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday officially open the holiday […]
Kiwi.com Soars with Agile BI and Reporting
Online travel is a competitive business with tight margins. All the hard work building brand and attracting customers can be […]
Meet our Superwomen, France Blanchard and Lital Bar Noy, nominees for the European Women in Payments Awards 2018!
We are so proud that not one, but two of Credorax’s super women have been shortlisted for the European Women […]
Expanding globally? Add local currencies like Kiwi.com
All Business is Local & Sometimes Exotic We have found that when a merchant accepts local currencies, their approval rates […]
Avoid Getting Ripped off During Your August Holiday
August is here and that means many of you are traveling around the globe. Visiting exotic destinations is obviously thrilling […]
Faster-time-to-Money: The Name of the Game for Small Businesses
Lars Pedersen, CEO of Creditcall, shares his insights on SMEs growth within the payments industry. The SME market continues to […]
PSPs are Adapting to Cross-Border E-Commerce
This month, Credorax has been spotlighted by PaymentEye to share its wisdom on cross-border ecommerce’s effect on PSPs. Below are […]
Client Advocacy Proves More than a New Year’s Resolution, but a Mantra to Live by
For many of us, the beginning of a new year is typically a time when we set personal ‘New Year’s […]
5 Pieces of Advice for Merchant Onboarding Application
To date, the merchant onboarding process to an acquirer has been time-consuming, inflexible and costly. The biggest cause of delays […]
Keys to Cross-Border Success for Merchants
Are you watching the world grow more connected before your eyes? It’s only natural that online merchants see this growth […]
Survey Says: U.S. Consumers & Businesses Alike Demand Pragmatic Fintech Solutions to Ease Their Financial Woes
Ringing in the holidays, means nearing the end of year, and at Credorax we decided to take a moment to […]
New study: B2B Digitalization Drives More Revenue
When it comes to embracing change, B2B is following – slowly – in the footsteps of B2C. Businesses that are […]
Merchants Will Become the Real Drivers of Change in the Payments Ecosystem
Editor’s note: What trends lie ahead for the payments industry in 2017? We’ve invited Kieran Hines of Ovum to highlight […]
Digital Payments: Growth and Development
Capgemini has released its 2016 World Payments Report (WPR)! Along with the rest of the payments industry, we are keeping […]
Management Values: What Drives Us?
Get to know our people through their management values, at a glance! At Credorax, our core values drive our daily […]
Empowering Payment Processing with Smart Technology
Gearing up for Money2020 Vegas, we decided to publish information about our tools and services in an easy-to-read format, so […]
Why Can’t Consumers Commit to Mobile Payments?
Research indicates that the use of mobile devices to make payments is continually on the rise. A Deloitte study predicted […]
Advancements in Tech Signal a Boom for Cross-Border Payments
As a FinTech company, we are always happy to see market support for the solutions we provide. We are working […]
Study: Adopting Digital Payments Yields Dividends in Consumer Loyalty
A recent study published by MasterCard Advisors confirmed that the availability of digital payments was a key point for cardholder […]
Are Payments Services the Next Logical Step for Supply Chain Experts?
Supply chain and logistics companies in today’s market already maintain expertise in several areas, such as logistics, delivery, invoicing and […]
What PSPs can learn from the property market
Tony Craddock, Director General of the Emerging Payments Association, Comments on Credorax’s Latest Whitepaper, “PSPs Why Does Your Choice of […]
Netherlands Payments in Focus
Editor’s note: This is the third post in our ‘Payments in Focus’ Series. You can see the previous posts on […]
Denmark Payments in Focus
Editor’s note: This is the second post in our Payments in Focus Series. You can see the previous post on […]
What You Need to Know About the New EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
On February 2, 2016, the much-anticipated agreement between the EU Commission and the U.S. outlining the framework for the transfer […]
PSPs Under Pressure
E-commerce has truly become a retailing giant. In 2014, the U.S. and China together handled 55% of all global internet […]
3 Payments Trends to Watch for in 2016
Happy 2016 to all of our partners! We are ready to dive into another year of payments innovation and smart […]
Top 5 Smart Acquiring Blog Posts of 2015
Christmas has come and gone, and New Year’s is fast approaching. Last week, in our Happy Holidays post, we took […]
Digital Disruption Reshapes Global Payments Industry
McKinsey & Company published a new report in November 2015 that highlights the key role digital disruption is playing in […]
EPA Awards Credorax Merchant Acquirer of the Year
Last month’s Emerging Payments Awards in London was truly a night to remember for Credorax. We took home awards for […]
The Digital Single Market Strategy: Innovation Meets Regulation
In the payment services and e-commerce arena, EU regulators are striving to keep up with the rapid pace at which […]
Insights From the European Commission E-Commerce Report
A recent European Commission report on the state of e-commerce offers some great insights on how consumers and merchants are […]
Real-Time Payments: When a Moment Makes All the Difference
Real-time payments have been a significant goal of the industry for some time, and they are fast becoming a reality. […]
How Will Technology Transform Financial Services?
Digital transformation has created big changes in a wide range of industries. Retail, hospitality, transportation and others — one by […]
China’s PBOC Keeps Visa and MasterCard in Limbo
The decision to open up Chinese bank card payment clearing market, which came into effect on June 1, 2015, follows, to […]
Innovation Is Key to World Class Payments in the UK
A new whitepaper from Payments UK, entitled World Class Payments in the UK: Enhancing the payments experience, attempts to answer […]
Apple Pay Adoption: Whither the Revolution?
Last year, the payments industry was on the edge of its seat — waiting to see how Apple Pay would […]
ISO 20022: We’re Just Getting Started
Recently, a working group composed of payments processing experts completed work on a first draft of the ISO 20022 standards. […]
PSD II: Goals and Expectations
On May 5, 2015, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee MEPs, the Commission of the EU, and the Latvian Presidency […]
Embracing the Digital World
We often talk about how we are living in a “digital world” or how this is the “digital era”. The […]
ePower 2.0: One-Click Payment Processing is No Longer a Dream
Credorax is creating a revolution in the global e-commerce sphere through our Smart Acquiring business approach: We have been able […]
New EU Anti-Money Laundering Rules Come Into Effect
It’s been in the works for a while, but new European anti-money laundering rules finally came into effect in late June. […]
How Does Big Data Fit In to the Payments Ecosystem?
Our expert panel at last month’s Credorax UNIFY event covered a number of payments-related topics, as we mentioned in our […]
Credorax UNIFY Panel on the Future of Payments: Part I
At our UNIFY event in London on June 16th, we heard many great speakers talk about the future of payments. […]
Credorax Addresses the ‘Truly Global and Borderless Digital Economy’ at UNIFY 2015
We are back from last week’s very successful UNIFY event in London and we have a lot to report. Our […]
5 Steps to a Perfect Merchant Onboarding Application
In general, merchant onboarding to an acquiring bank can take up an enormous amount of time, due to reams of […]
Payments in the Age of Digital Disruption
Yves Mersch, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, spoke recently at the joint European Central […]
On the Road to a Cashless Society
It’s hard to believe the phrase “Cash is king” was once widely-accepted conventional wisdom. As payments innovation picks up the […]
5 Ways to Optimize Your Site for Cross-Border E-Commerce
PYMNTS.com recently released their latest quarterly X-Border Payments Optimization Index, and it’s chock-full of fascinating information about the state of […]
Fraud Protection, Data Security Are Major Drivers of Retail Payments Strategy
The pace of payments innovation seems to constantly speed up. Just when you think you have figured out how to […]
Japan Payments in Focus
Editor’s note: We are pleased to announce our new ‘Country in Focus’ series. Every few weeks we will take a […]
What’s the Deal With Millennials?
As Millennials have come of age in recent years, there is a greater sense of urgency among merchants and other industry […]
Interchange Fee Regulation Update
Multilateral interchange fees are back in the news. We discussed them back in November in the context of Visa Europe’s […]
The US EMV Migration: What Took So Long?
The October 2015 deadline for the US EMV migration is fast approaching. There are many industry articles addressing the perennial […]
Credorax’s 5 Commandments of Customer Service
With the proliferation of omni-channel payments and the general global nature of the industry, sometimes it can be hard to […]
Are You Ready to Take On Global E-Commerce?
When it comes to global e-commerce, there’s no reason for US merchants to be limited to North American customers. As […]
To Combat Fraud, Bring Payments Out of the Dinosaur Age
Our CEO Benny Nachman had a great conversation on retail security and payments fraud issues last week with Jeff Peters, […]
MPE Takeaways: Apple Pay Soars, EU Merchant Acquiring Trends
This year’s Merchant Payment Ecosystem event was held in Berlin on February 17-19. The emphasis this year was on mPOS, NFC and Bitcoin. […]
Why mPOS Is Changing the Face of Payments
Many industry insiders are buzzing about mPOS lately, which is not at all surprising. There are two reasons for the […]
Credorax Rocked ICE Totally Gaming 2015
To put it succinctly: Credorax rocked ICE Totally Gaming 2015 and we have the pictures (and videos!) to prove it. […]
Omnichannel Payments: What’s Behind the Buzz?
Omnichannel is a payments industry buzzword that looks like it’s sticking around for the long haul. Is there anything behind […]
Why U.S. E-Retailers Need Cross-Border Acquiring
From fashion to travel, many U.S. online retailers are starting to see between 10 to 20 percent of their traffic […]
Merchant Onboarding: Do We Need to Choose Between Speed and Credibility?
Merchant onboarding has recently become a hot topic of discussion in the industry. Until now, the onboarding process has been […]
Visa Acceptance Risk Forum: Banding Together to Increase Payments Safety
Visa Europe held their 2nd annual Acceptance Risk Forum at the end of November and I was honored to represent […]
Gearing Up for ICE Totally Gaming
The annual ICE Totally Gaming show is coming up in February and we are already preparing for an “extraordinary” event! […]
What’s in Store for 2015? 4 Payments Trends to Watch
With Christmas behind us and the New Year nearly upon us, now is a good time to consider what’s in […]
The Story Behind Our Best Merchant Acquirer Award
We were thrilled to have been named Best Merchant Acquirer of 2014 at the recent, prestigious FSTech/Retail Systems Payments Awards […]
Visa Europe’s CBDIP To Benefit Merchants and Acquirers
The ongoing saga between Visa and the European commission looks like it’s finally coming to a close. The story goes […]
SEPA Migration and the Future of Cross-Border Payments
The SEPA initiative was launched back in January 2008 with the goal of improving the efficiency of European cross-border payments. […]
Smart Acquiring: Digital Payments for the 21st Century
Welcome to the official Credorax blog. We are excited to participate in the global payments industry conversation and we’re also […]
Solving Merchant Acquiring Challenges in Today’s Complex Global Landscape
We’re at Money20/20 and we are excited to meet our payments colleagues in Las Vegas! We’re having a great time […]