Research Agenda · v1
The agenda is how we guarantee independence: we decide what to research; sponsors fund work from this list, never onto it. Focus for this cycle: South Africa, merchant payments first.
The definitive annual map of how South African merchants get paid: the acquiring landscape and economics, the acceptance-technology shift, and the SME Merchant Payments Opportunity as the hero theme.
A quarterly read on real-time / account-to-account payments in South Africa — adoption, trends and interpretation, on public data.
The card-not-present and e-commerce acceptance layer; a natural second flagship.
The trusted, plain-language interpretation of the regulatory landscape.
The threat landscape at the point of acceptance and online.
The cash-to-digital transition; a SoftPOS / tap-to-phone deep dive; card vs account-to-account; open banking / open finance; and cross-border & remittances across SADC — earned as we expand beyond South Africa.
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