About the journal

Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems publishes peer-reviewed articles and case studies analysing best practice, emerging issues and new thinking in how to develop a profitable, customer-focused payments strategy. It examines major issues facing the payments industry from a business, risk and operational perspective.

Edited by renowned payments expert Alec Nacamuli and an eminent Editorial Board, each quarterly 100-page issue provides practical, detailed analysis of developments and trends in the payments business, regulation, new entrants and technologies and how to bring them all together to define your payments strategy, as well as actionable advice and ‘lessons learned’ from fellow practitioners on how payment processing systems can be leveraged to maximise profitability, security and efficiency and minimize risk. It contains little or no advertising and no advertorial.

The Journal combines provocative thought-leadership pieces, which expand what can be achieved with an effective payments strategy, with actionable advice and 'lessons learned' from fellow practitioners on topics including:

• maximising payments-driven revenue
  
• payments product management
  
• trends in payments methods, markets and products
  
• corporate, wholesale and retail payments
  
• risk management
  
• reducing payment processing costs
  
• non-banks and their challenge to the payments market
  
• selecting and deploying new payments technologies
  
• hype vs reality of mobile and e-payment strategies
  
• the role of payment systems in financial sector stability
  
• replacing paper/cheques in payment processing
  
• regulation as a driver for change on payments business
  
• fraud, efficiency and security measures
  
• financial supply chain management
  
• payments operations and services

Detailed, practical guidance on developing payments strategy – authoritative articles analysing best practice, emerging issues and new thinking in how to develop a profitable, customer-focused payments strategy, written by leading payments experts. Each offers the latest thinking in payments strategy and product development.

Case studies on managing business, risk and operational issues – ‘how-to’ actionable advice from payments experts at financial institutions detailing their practical experience and lessons learned in managing payment systems. Articles scheduled for Volume 2 include those by authors from: ABN AMRO; American Express Bank; Bank of America; Citigroup; HSBC; ICICI Bank; PayPal; SunTrust Banks; SWIFT; The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; Visa; Wachovia Bank; Wells Fargo & Co.

Central Bank, Federal Reserve and regulator views – the latest thinking on security, efficiency and how payments systems can enhance financial sector stability, as well as how legal and regulatory changes create new business opportunities. Articles scheduled for Volume 2 include those by authors from: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; NACHA; Bank for International Settlements; European Central Bank; European Commission; De Nederlandsche Bank; Swiss National Bank.

Market reviews – learn about emerging trends and what customers want in corporate, retail and wholesale markets for payments – as well as what is happening in other country’s payments industries – and applying their lessons to your payments strategy and payment processing.

Essential reference-quality material for Departmental Heads, Directors, Managing Directors, VPs, SVPs, EVPs and Senior Managers of:

• Payments
• Payments strategy
• Product management/strategy
• Payment systems
• Corporate treasury
• 'Payments operations and services
• Sales and marketing
• Business Development
• Cash management; as well as
• Presidents, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs and CIOs
• Central and Federal Reserves
• Regulators
• Clearing Houses
• Payments associations and interbank co-operatives
• Consultants
• Third party processors, service providers and vendors