By Ralf Gladis, CEO, Computop - 2020 has brought a surfeit of challenges for the payments industry, so, to a certain extent, caution must be applied when looking at the trends for 2021. Some, however, are already clear, and a change in consumer behaviour is one of them.

by Jed Danbury, Computop - Digital wallets have gotten a great deal of press since the start of the pandemic. But digital wallets like PayPal and Apple Pay can provide a threat to credit card organizations...

Travaillant de concert depuis plusieurs années, Computop et Limonetik sont heureuses d’annoncer la signature d’un accord de partenariat permettant de proposer à leurs larges portefeuilles de clients Européens des services de paiement pour marketplaces....

By Jed Danbury - In the current environment, safety and hygiene are clearly top-of-mind for consumers, including when it comes to shopping. (...) Along those lines, the actual payment process in retail needs to reflect those same safety and hygienic practices. How can retailers achieve this? There…

Computop, a leading global payment processor, and Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), which specialises in cashless payments in Central and Eastern Europe, have announced that their cooperation is to be enhanced further to propagate the expansion of omnichannel payments.

(...) With the well-known Danish window manufacturer, VELUX, among the first customers to take advantage of the new arrangement, Computop and RBI are enabling merchants and service providers to expand their businesses into Eastern European countries...

By Ralf Gladis, CEO, Computop -

Shopping for many is therapy…until they reach the queue for the checkout. It’s easier online to pay for goods, but physical retail, with all the sensory benefits it offers the shopper, would be so much easier if payment was quick and easy. In an industry that has…

Today retail is part business administration, part psychology. Forget distribution channels, they belong in the dusty past. Customers now demand a more flexible approach to retail allowing them to buy what they want, when they want, where they want, and pay for it in a way that suits them.

(...) Ralf Gladis, chief executive at Computop, a PSP, disagrees with the EBA’s decision to stand by the December deadline.

“In the UK, where the deadline has been extended to September 2021, merchants will have a lot more time to get their SCA implementation processes in order. However if they…