First in a three-part series on Project Agorá, which is testing tokenisation to improve cross-border payments. It will be followed by a comparison of this central bank-backed initiative with competing projects. A third article, on the lessons for treasurers, completes the series.
Final part of our three-part series on Project Agorá, which is testing tokenisation to improve cross-border payments. We close with the lessons for treasurers.
Second in a three-part series on Project Agorá, which is testing tokenisation to improve cross-border payments. We now turn to competing initiatives, before completing the series with a final article on the lessons for treasurers.
Gabriel Lucas, Director – Payments Advisory at Redbridge, examines how airlines, car rental companies, hotel groups and booking platforms can turn abuse prevention into a performance lever.
Chaira Mekkaoui, Associate Director at Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory, analyses Switzerland’s payments and ecommerce trends and what is influencing them.
More than ten years after the capping of interchange fees in the European Union, the question of further regulation is becoming pressing. In the United Kingdom, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is examining the evolution of scheme and processing fees charged by Visa and Mastercard through a distinctive approach that deserves consideration for the regulation of card payments on the continent.
Chaira Mekkaoui, Associate Director at Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory, analyses France’s payments and ecommerce trends and the influences behind them.
The EU’s Verification of Payee (VoP) service aims to improve fraud prevention during credit transfers. Unfortunately, it can also disrupt corporates’ pre-authorized payment flows. With the support of the European Association of Corporate Treasurers (EACT), treasurers have suggested some adjustments to the European Commission to avoid a widespread corporate opt-out from the service. In this interview Hervé Postic, CEO of Mahouarn, who has been appointed by the Association Française des Trésoriers d’Entreprise (AFTE) to act as a voice for French treasurers, explains the problems and the changes that treasurers are proposing.
The payments industry often chases buzzwords before considering real, operational benefits. We saw it with BNPL when I challenged the hype vs the actual value. Stablecoins are quietly moving through the same arc. This article was first published in Paypers Global Ecommerce Report 2026 .
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Gabriel Lucas, Director of Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory, shares insights on how to go beyond fraud by turning policy abuse into business value. This article was first published in Paypers.
Dan Carter, Senior Director at Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory, offers European merchants an insightful guide to US interchange fees. This article was first published in Paypers.
At the recent EuroFinance International Treasury Management conference in Budapest, corporate treasurers exchanged experiences on cash forecasting, FX operations, payments, treasury automation and data architecture. Artificial intelligence was presented there as a tool to generate actionable information for management teams more quickly while reducing manual interventions. Cash forecasting and process automation were the most highlighted applications of AI by participants, but other areas were also presented, notably FX and the coding capabilities that allow information systems to talk to each other.
In October, Redbridge was at the ePay Summit in London, took part in roundtables and met merchants to discuss issues including fraud in e-commerce, the realities of open banking and the practicalities of implementing alternative payments methods such as crypto and blockchain in everyday checkout flows.
Gabriel Lucas, Director of Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory, shares insights on how to understand and reduce payment-related churn for the subscription model. Originally published in the Paypers.
