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Open banking is still in its early years, but its growth is clear. However, there are still plenty of misconceptions about open banking and one of those is its impact on your credit score.

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Open banking users globally are growing at a 50% rate each year and are expected to reach 132.2 million in 2024. The reason for this is simple: convenience.

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New technologies in payments, stock management and PoS are changing the way business merchants run their businesses. Here, we explore three tech solutions that can help boost your sales and profits.

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Like most industries, skip hire companies are facing increased costs due to inflation and squeezed profits.

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While open banking is swiftly becoming a go-to method for banks, businesses and customers to transfer money, it wasn’t always this way.

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Wholesalers have been heavily impacted by a broad range of challenges in the past few years, from availability issues to rising costs. One thing is clear, though, which is just how resilient the sector truly is.

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The growth in the open banking sector is showing no signs of slowing as the industry continues to transform the way consumers and businesses get the best value from their banks.

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Technology is rife in all businesses, especially wholesalers, with 88% using multiple software systems. These include warehouse management, inventory management to accounting software and payment solutions. And with the ...

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The full role artificial intelligence (AI) will have in each industry is still relatively unknown. But business journal CIO notes AI’s job within wholesale can “untangle the increasing complexity of supply chains by auto...

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Open banking offers greater control in how we manage our finances, from keeping track of our spending to helping with our savings goal. But what are the trends currently shaping this phenomenon?

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In April, the UK government announced its recommendation for the next phase of open banking in the UK. As part of this, UK Finance suggested a model which would see the continuation of open banking functions moved into a...

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Open banking is a revolution in how we manage our finances, arrange payments and keep track of our spending.

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Initially, only the nine largest banks in the UK were required to provide open banking when the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched its open banking initiative.

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STL Technology Solutions, the foremost supplier of business management solutions for wholesalers, has partnered with EchoPay to develop the first fully integrated open banking and card payment solution for the sector.

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Congratulations! You’ve launched with EchoPay and you are now ready to take open banking payments at a fraction of a cost of processing cards. However, you’ve got hundreds of customers who are used to their preferred pay...

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Account-to-account (A2A) payments provider, EchoPay, and open banking payment infrastructure leader, Token.io, have today announced their partnership to bring A2A payments to wholesale merchants across the United Kingdom...

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One of the major benefits of using open banking is to move away from Visa and Mastercard card rails. These typically charge the merchant between 1-2% and in return they provide a level of security and protection to custo...

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Despite the complex technology that EchoPay is powered by, implementing open banking into your wholesale business is simple and straightforward.

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Open banking is a banking practice that provides third-party financial services access to transactions and other financial data with programmes called APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).

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\"Working with EchoPay is a no brainer. We take hundreds of card payments and paying 50p per transaction is much better than 2%.

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Bank charges are sapping the life out of wholesale businesses. Taking around 1% off every sale you work hard to make, we’ve come to accept bank charges as a fact of life.

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Efficiency is everything in wholesale. Here are the three ways wholesalers can make the biggest efficiencies to drive their sales and profits:

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Alongside keeping retailers' shelves full of bestselling lines at competitive prices, wholesalers offer a whole host of other benefits to store owners. Below, we've outlined how:

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When looking for cost savings that can be made, bank costs are often overlooked and accepted as just an unavoidable part of doing business. However, there are huge savings that can be made. Below, we've outlined five way...

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Unitas is helping its wholesale members save up to £6.5 million in banking charges in the next year following a new partnership with EchoPay.

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Disruptor of the Year 2021 Finalist

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