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Payments Firms Are Building on Broken Foundations

Written by Nick Botha, VP Payments & Retail Banking at AutoRek   The payments industry is racing towards increased innovation across AI, instant settlement, open finance, and digital wallets, while simultaneously facing pressures of tighter regulations and safeguarding expectations. However, payments companies still face operational burdens. While adoption rates rapidly rise, consuming more technology innovation,…

Accelerating CASS 15 Safeguarding Compliance with a Proven Template Approach

CASS 15 introduces a more explicit regulatory focus on how firms treat, allocate, and govern interest earned on client money. While the rule itself is concise, its implications cut across client money calculations, disclosures, governance frameworks, and audit readiness. For firms already operating under intense CASS scrutiny, the challenge is not understanding the principle of…

Beyond the Close: Why Financial Services Needs More Than Month-End Reconciliation

For decades, reconciliation has been synonymous with the financial close. It was seen as a periodic, reporting checkpoint to ensure that accounts aligned. As long as everything balanced at month-end or quarter-end, the system was working. But financial services has changed, and reconciliation has changed with it. Today, reconciliation has become a core operational capability…

The FinTech Show: AutoRek & Microsoft (FF News)

Reconciliation is no longer just a back-office process — it’s becoming risk infrastructure. With 69% of firms still held back by manual processes, the shift is clear: reconciliation needs to move from fragmented workflows to automated, real-time, and integrated systems. The combination of domain expertise and scalable cloud infrastructure is what will unlock that change…

Fragmented Data Disrupts Operations at 80% of Payments Firms

AutoRek’s industry research reveals that firms are racing towards real-time payments while running on manual operations 80% of payments organizations experience moderate to significant operational disruption from fragmented data, according to new research from AutoRek. Despite heavy investment in front-end innovation like AI and instant payments, back-office operations remain stuck in manual processes – creating a critical gap that…

The Future of Payments Operations 2026

The payments industry is moving quickly toward real‑time settlement, smarter automation, and new digital ways of moving money. At the same time, many organisations are still relying on manual work, inconsistent data, and outdated systems. The Future of Payments Operations 2026 explores this growing “Great Payments Paradox” and what leaders can do about it.  …

Preparing for the Future: The Next Chapter of Safeguarding | The Payments Association

As the payments industry looked ahead to new safeguarding rules from the FCA, firms across the UK found themselves at a pivotal moment of change, but also one of real opportunity. In this webinar, our panel of experts explored what the next era of safeguarding could mean for payment institutions and e-money firms. The discussion…

How 2026’s regulatory landscape will separate the market leaders

May 2026 marks a pivotal moment for payment and e-money firms. When CASS 15 enters into force, the industry will divide between those who prepared their infrastructure early and those scrambling to comply. While many firms view CASS 15 safeguarding as a compliance exercise, the convergence of multiple regulatory pressures demands an operational shift—from reactive…

AI in Payments Operations: From Hype to High-Impact Transformation

AI in payments is accelerating fast but the operational reality tells a different story. Today, 90% of payments firms still rely on spreadsheets to manage critical workflows such as reconciliation, exception handling, and reporting. These manual processes slow teams down, limit real-time performance, and create operational risk. Our new white paper, AI in Payments Operations:…