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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