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Opinion: Payment Strategy Professionals – Look at Diolkos
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Aug 2024 RTR continues to be a non-starter in Canada. Delay after delay and re-start...
Steve Percy
Aug 15, 20243 min read


Opinion: RTR /RTP /FEDnow /NPA /TIPS /NPP /PIX /UPI /... What did they all miss ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions June 2023 "Old keys won’t open new doors" – Willy Wonka So now that the world has seen...
Steve Percy
Jun 14, 20235 min read


Opinion: “Outside-the-Box” or “A Better Mousetrap”
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Mar 2023 Leapfrog Progress ? “Nothing happens unless first a dream…” - Carl Sandberg...
Steve Percy
Mar 4, 20232 min read


Opinion: Cutting Anchors and Sailing with a New Uniform
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Oct 2022 "To reach a port, we must sail, not tie anchor, and not drift." - Franklin D....
Steve Percy
Oct 15, 20222 min read


Opinion: What are the experts (still) talking about ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions July 2022 Let’s go to the podcasts. Payments Nerds (TCH), Payments on Fire, Fintech...
Steve Percy
Jul 22, 20229 min read


Opinion: GIG 2.0 Workers with more than one Side Hustle. How do workers manage RT payments ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions June 2022 Many GIG Workers work more than one GIG, mostly at the same time. They have...
Steve Percy
Jun 29, 20223 min read


Opinion: Tokens – A new approach to accessing paid news, magazine, audio, video, game services
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions June 2022 Subscriptions. The AR collections stabilization tool of previous decades. ...
Steve Percy
Jun 29, 20223 min read


Opinion: Loyalty Programs – for Small Business ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions June 2022 Substantial Loyalty Programs are a large corporate offering. The cost of...
Steve Percy
Jun 29, 20222 min read


Opinion: “Business Competitiveness – making advanced payment tools available to all.”
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions June 2022 Survive and succeed. How do I compete ? I need tools that help me compete...
Steve Percy
Jun 10, 20222 min read


Opinion: “Selling Sunset” – Enough already. How about a new platform for banking competition ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Jan 2022 Let’s face it, the bank branch and sales teams have been flogging the same...
Steve Percy
Feb 1, 20226 min read


Opinion: “Payment Product Improvements” – fixing all the current issues, permanently
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Jan 2022 Current payment products are excellent. There has been a lot of innovation...
Steve Percy
Jan 7, 202212 min read


Opinion: “Risk Management” – Bankers’ mantra and Consumers’ phobia
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Nov 2021 The reason Banks continue to be successful is that they understand implicitly...
Steve Percy
Dec 14, 20213 min read


“The Perfect Transaction Bank”
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Aug 2021 “The global payments ecosystem is incredibly complex. Simply put, there are a...
Steve Percy
Aug 16, 20216 min read


Opinion: “Privacy – how do we protect ourselves ?”
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions Aug 2021 Who is watching us ? An issue that has made it to the Top 5 of hot topics and...
Steve Percy
Aug 10, 20215 min read


Opinion: Cross-Border Payments – the saga continues
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions March 2021 Statistically, international payments were calculated to be approx. $29T in...
Steve Percy
Mar 29, 20214 min read


Opinion: GIG Economy – Destiny or Fad ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions February 2021 “…Once people accepted the idea of an app, you could get them to pay for...
Steve Percy
Feb 20, 20213 min read


Opinion: Cybersecurity – What are consumer’s experiencing ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions February 2021 Bankers, in their 30 year quest for digital self-servicing, have...
Steve Percy
Feb 19, 20215 min read


Opinion: What is on the minds of banking leadership ?
Steve Percy President, Diolkos Commerce Solutions January 2021 There are many things that keep banking leadership up at night. Covid-19...
Steve Percy
Feb 8, 20215 min read


What are the Experts talking about ?
There are massive numbers of articles, Podcasts, Ted Talks, Youtube videos, Conference Speakers, etc. on payments and the coverage of...
Steve Percy
Nov 5, 20203 min read


Guide to Revolutionizing Payments
Funny, when you retire you are supposed to … The problem is that your brain doesn’t stop or completely forget what you have been doing...
Steve Percy
Nov 3, 202011 min read
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