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It’s all about the experience – navigating the new payments era
It is not breaking news that customer experience is driving change in the payments sector. But what does this mean for merchants, and how can they...
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It’s all about the experience – navigating the new payments era
Reading Time: 4 minutes How to navigate the new payments era, from getting closer to your customers and optimizing the checkout experience to future-proofing your payments offering.
5 key trends transforming convenience stores and gas stations
Like most retail sectors, gas station convenience stores are undergoing rapid market change. Fuel and convenience stores (c-stores) need to adapt to...
Celebrating 6 years: Highlights and visions
01.10.2015 was the very beginning. It marked the day we started our enterpreneurial and thrilling rollercoaster ride: AEVI. Now six year's later,...
Electric Vehicles rising from the ashes of the fuel crises
As UK citizens will already be more than aware, the country is currently experiencing a fuel crisis that has led to miles and miles of drivers...
Recapping Money20/20 Europe: Let’s get “physical”! Between networking, tech talks and lots of snacks
An in-person event. What exactly is that again? Being locked down for such a long time in this fast-changing market, almost made us forget how...
FinTech Power 50: AEVI announced as one to watch
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The FinTech Power 50 is a global community striving tho help each other shape the future world of FinTech
Holistic Commerce – a new digital reality
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Read about the new digital reality that holistic commerce brings. Offering a seamless transacting experience for all payment methods.
Merchants seek to modernise face-to-face payments
As an innovator in the face-to-face payments industry, AEVI has been featured in ‘The Future of Payments’ report in The Sunday Times.Topics included...
Petrol 2021: Trends, Innovation, and Technology in Payments
Facing declining fuel sales due to the Covid-19 pandemic during 2020 in the U.S., convenience store owners proved remarkably adept in ringing up...
Why using Payment Integrators in the Instant, Invisible & Free (IIF) World
Instant, Invisible and Free (IIF) – it’s a phrase sure to give directors of financial institutions (FIs) nightmares as they contemplate the erosion...
Payments as simple as ABC for Fuel and Convenience Stores
In 1888, Bertha Benz, wife of Mercedes Benz co-founder Karl, took a 60-plus-mile round trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim in Germany to showcase the...
History of Payments (5/5) | The Future of Payments – To Infinity and Beyond (Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Investment and competition are accelerating innovation in payments. At the same time, a focus on standardization and interoperability is creating a unified, global universe in which new players can emerge and try to create a sustainable market presence—or be acquired by larger players.
Orchestrating the omnichannel merchant ecosystem
The world of retail payments at one time was fairly well carved up between acquirers and ISOs who sold merchant accounts, and value-added resellers...
History of Payments (4/5) | The Future of Payments – State of Transformation (Part 1)
Reading Time: 3 minutes To ensure they meet the payments needs of today’s merchants and consumers, payment acquirers must always plan for tomorrow. That is never easy, and particularly not when consumer trends are moving faster than most merchants are able or willing to go.
History of Payments (3/5) | Payments Ecosystem Explained
The pace of change in the payments space accelerated dramatically in the first two decades of this millennium. Much of that change is a result of...
History of Payments (2/5) | What can we learn from the past? (Part 2)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Isn’t progress amazing, in the 1980’s card payments were taken using a cumbersome manual card processing machine, today we make payment at the touch of a ring, what will the future give us?
History of Payments (1/5) | What can we learn from the past? (Part I)
Reading Time: 3 minutes The introduction of officially minted coins, believed to date back to 600 BC, established the precedent of using tokens to purchase goods and services. Since then, cash has largely dominated the world of commerce.
Voices in Payments
In the seventh episode of our new podcast “Voices In Payments” our host, Diederik Klopper discusses the importance of a true omnichannel experience,...
Toward a more open world of payment solutions
In a perfect world, acquirers and ISOs would be able to offer merchants a rich portfolio of payment-based digital services to enhance checkout...
Unlocking the World of Payment Solutions
Merchants need more from traditional merchant payment service providers. But those providers are constrained by the proprietary limitations of...
Delivering a Quality Merchant Experience Digitally
These days, merchants expect more from their payments providers. With digital options booming, the merchant experience in that realm is crucial....
What makes a POS smart?
Compared to classic payment terminals, any new and shiny Android-based dedicated payment system could easily be presented as a "smartPOS." But the...
Crisis Speeds Up Merchant SmartPOS Transformation
The Covid-19 pandemic dramatically illustrates the need for next-generation merchant acquiring services. Even before crisis-enforced economic...
European payments – a tale of three countries
In a recent blog, we revealed our research which has unearthed the fast-changing European payment trends across Mediterranean countries, driven...
Bridging the digital experience divide
The world is going digital except for a large portion of the small merchant community. As larger retailers strive to add customer-pleasing services...
What influences payments trends in Europe
Remember a time when buying something was as simple as popping to your local corner shop and handing over hard cash? There are still many of us who...
The Talent Surgery
In the latest of our brand new series looking at the people behind the talent of some of the most successful, fast-growth businesses in the world,...
How can ISOs and acquirers upgrade merchant services with a device independent strategy
Look back in history and you find numerous, high-profile examples of complacency causing the most unexpected businesses to flounder. Take Kodak, for...
Can you adapt to software revenue-driven acquiring?
The merchant acquiring business has gone through many cycles, but essentially it's still all about those boxes – the classic payment terminals that...
MPE 2020: key takeaways for merchant acquirers and service providers
Are super-apps redefining commerce? Are merchants really interested in payments? What defines the ‘new era of retail’? Will increased access to...
Will tap-on-phone bring an end to dedicated payment hardware?
The world of payments has come a long way in a relatively short space of time, with cash becoming a rare sight for many merchants. But our industry...
The reality of frictionless payment? Consumers – and merchants – expect more
In recent years, there’s been a great deal of focus on making payments frictionless. But is this missing the point – that payment is just one...
Women in FinTech
Nadia is joined in the studio this week by Nicky Koopman, who is Senior VP of Content & Value Added Services at Aevi. She is also a leading...
French FinTech Kisses – Paris FinTech Forum 2020
In the words of Audrey Hepburn, “Paris is always a good idea,” and for two days a year FinTechs from all around the world flood into the historic...
2019 Payments Review. What’s in store for 2020?
As we enter a new decade, there is a lot we can look back and learn upon from previous years. Victor Fenix, our Business Development Director, puts...
An App-Y holiday season for small medium businesses
There is a lot to love about December: cozy evening in whilst it snows outside, warm mulled wine and gingerbread, and everybody feeling joyful in...
Merchant Acquiring Report 2019 – Spain, France and Italy
The world is changing, there’s no denying it. Amidst a period of economic uncertainty, Europe is experiencing a surge in payments innovation....
Money20/20 US 2019 – Five highlights of Las Vegas giving back
Las Vegas: a city renowned for gambling, shopping, entertainment and nightlife, is quite often associated with money, or more accurately, money lost...
The Ultimate Merchant Experience
The best shopping experience starts with the best possible merchant experience.What is the merchant experience?We often talk about consumer or...
Webinar – What are U.S. small merchants’ views on innovation and smart POS?
We’ve long known that one-size-fits-all doesn’t apply when it comes to small to medium-sized business merchants. As we lay the foundation for...
Making Loyalty Pay for SMB Merchants
For thousands of Small to Medium-sized Business (SMB) merchants across Europe, customer loyalty has become more important than ever for driving...
How to merge traditional infrastructure with the new world of smart POS
IT systems are the heartbeat of financial institutions such as banks, merchant acquirers, and payment solution providers. They provide...
App Chat Series: The Art of Keeping Customer “App-y”
Exclusive interview with Massimo Sirolla, CEO and Founder of Loyalzoo. Loyalzoo is one of the loyalty apps on AEVI App Marketplace, its convenience...
What’s Not to Like About Cloud
The “cloud” is seemingly everywhere these days, even when it comes to merchant payment transactions. But how many merchants really understand what...
How to manage a multi-vendor platform without multiplying costs?
As payments become predominantly digital, merchants are under pressure to provide consumers with quick and painless transactions at the point of...
Unveiling the new App Developer Portal
We have recently launched our new developer portal, and we are delighted to unveil its great make-over with a modern, clean new design and new...
Why Have Apps at the POS?
The point of sale (POS) payment terminal has been a mainstay of merchant countertops with little change in functionality for decades. Now merchant...
Smart Volution Shares Experience as POS App Partner
Exclusive interview with Justin Coward, CEO at Smart Volution. Smart Volution’s Register is one of the Electronic Point Of Sale (EPOS) apps featured...
Magic in the air at Money20/20 Europe 2019
‘Magic is always in the air at Money20/20’, according to the organization’s President, Tracey Davies. We couldn’t agree more. It is the largest...
Helping merchants navigate the apps marketplace
Reading Time: 4 minutes Acquirers must focus on the ability to pre-select suites of apps to answer the needs of individual merchants. Here are four hot button apps to think of providing to small-medium-sized merchants.