Call for Papers

Call for Papers - Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems

Submission deadline: 15th May 2025

The Editor, Editorial Board and Publishers of Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems are welcoming the submission of articles on the following subjects for the next issue of the journal.

Market developments and payment strategy

Trends in payments markets
What has been gained so far and what needs to be solved
Payments modernisation
Developments in regional cooperation models (and links to global systems)
Evolving payment market structure
Role (and licensing) of non-banks as Payment Service Provider (PSP)
Developing a profitable enterprise payments strategy
Payments product management: Balancing competition and cooperation
New entrants and their challenge to the payments market
Developments in industry standards (ISO, EMV etc.)

Trends in payment methods and services

Trends in payments methods
Mobile and e-payments
Developments in cross-border payments
Correspondent banking (and its alternatives)
The role of data in payment messages (for many stakeholders)
New payment technologies
The use of AI for payments functions
Trade ecosystems and links to payments services
Value-added services
e-invoicing services
Identity and authentication services

Faster payments

Value-added for consumers and/or businesses
Regulatory developments
Economic models
Impact on rulebooks
Connection of FP schemes for cross-border payments

Central Bank Digital Currencies etc.

Retail Central Bank Digital Currency payments
Developments with non-fiat currencies (stable coins etc.)

Merchant payments

Developments in cards payments for POS and webshops
Online payments for (global) web merchants
Developments in vending machine payments
Interchange arrangement models
Developments in cash payments (and co-existence with non-cash payments)
Replacing banknotes, coins and cheques

Real Time Gross Settlement Systems and settlement methods

Payments sovereignty
(New) RTGS policies of central banks
Independence of central banks as RTGS operator
Settlement methods and their features such as finality
Central bank settlement services
Settlement of retail payments
Settlement of the payments legs of securities transactions
Settlement of forex transactions
Settlement of wholesale CBDC

Corporate payments and treasury management

Financial supply chain management
Cash - , currency - and liquidity management
Payments data for reconciliation purposes
Government payments (tax, social benefits, subsidies)

Payments platforms

Changing processing models

Payments operations

Reducing payment processing costs
Outsourcing or not?
Replacement of legacy systems?

Payment risk management and compliance

Risk governance and risk culture
Fraud management
Cyber security management
AML-CFT management
Counterparty risk management
Management of sanctions risks

Social impact of payments

Payment policies to foster financial inclusion
Workers' remittances
Contribution of payments policies to the UN Sustainability Development Goals
Impact of ESG principles on the actors in the payments industry

Regulatory initiatives impacting the payments market

What are the current and future regulatory expectations?
Importance of payments in a global landscape
Consumer protection
Follow up FSB cross-border roadmap recommendations
Identity regulation (legal entities and natural persons such as eIDAS 2.0)
Competition law
FATF principles
IPR

About the Journal

Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems publishes peer-reviewed articles and case studies analysing best practice, regulation, emerging issues and new thinking for the payments industry. It examines major issues facing the corporate, wholesale and retail payments industry from a business, risk and operational perspective. As a peer-reviewed professional publication, the Journal is read by senior payments executives based at banks, credit card issuers, regulators, other financial institutions, service providers, vendors, consultants and treasurers. Typically readers are departmental heads, VPs, SVPs, EVPs, Directors and Senior Managers in payments, product management, payments operations, transaction banking and cash management.

Submission Guidelines:

The copy deadline is 15th May 2025 and the following types of articles will be considered for publication:

Practice articles: Thought leadership pieces, regulatory updates, briefings, case studies and other contributions written by practitioners. Articles should be 2,000 to 5,000 words in length.

Research papers: Contributions which explore new models, theories and research in payments strategy and systems. The principal management implications of the submission should be included. Articles should be up to 6,000 words in length.

Manuscript submissions and enquiries should be submitted to the Publisher, Julie Kerry

Author guidelines, sample articles and other relevant information about the journal can be found here