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Starting the Transaction: Payment Initiation and Customer Experience
Highlights
- This technical note is framed to help policymakers and payment system operators understand recent trends in payment initiation and customer experience in making interoperable payments work better for low-income populations.
- Key findings include:
- Adoption of alias-based addressing offers an important opportunities but the trade-offs must be weighed.
- Trends in QR standardization are improving but still vary significantly across markets.
- Third-party payment initiation is key to expanding instant payments but must be done with careful consideration.
- Fit-for-purpose design and implementation are critical to enable Request to Pay services reduce the financial literacy burden.
- Adoption of alias-based addressing offers an important opportunities but the trade-offs must be weighed.
- Policymakers and system operators should balance competition and coordination—promoting a shared language for instant payments while also not limiting the private sector’s ability to stand out from peers.
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Topic: Digital Innovation
Sub-topics: Payments