Payments
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The bank holiday dates for the European Central Bank in 2020
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How GoCardless helps your business take payments more simply
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How GoCardless helps your business process payments successfully.
![5 ways GoCardless reduces the cost of collecting payments](https://images.ctfassets.net/40w0m41bmydz/3oSEyVXcP8D4fdBwceARNH/69c39a8f4781ffbc9eaf1d95e75664de/CDT-843_Costs__1_.png?w=680&h=383&q=50&fm=png)
How GoCardless helps your business save money.
![UK businesses, do you know how your customers actually want to pay you?](https://images.ctfassets.net/40w0m41bmydz/1Ym5QiPo0loqLkGE7nHWhg/b022ee6d5348615c772cdc25ccba50fc/how-uk-businesses-prefer-to-pay-hero.jpg?w=680&h=383&fl=progressive&q=50&fm=jpg)
Take heed of your customers' payment preferences to get paid on time.
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Is your cash flow causing you stress? We asked more than 1,000 businesses across the UK which payment methods they prefer to use, so you know which to offer them to get paid on time.
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With many businesses shutting down early this year, here are five ways to make sure you're paid in time for Christmas.
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Everything you need to know about PSD2, and what it means for your business.
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What does 3DS2 do and what does it mean for your business?
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If you bill your regular customers on a recurring basis, take advantage of subscription billing and bring more predictable revenue to your business. In this guide, we walk through 5 steps to moving to a subscription model.
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When your business buys goods or services, it’s important to keep track of what you’ve ordered and how much it will cost you. Setting up a purchase order system can improve your business’ efficiency, tighten stock controls and save you money.
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A guide on Bacs payments in the UK: everything you need to know about Direct Debit, Bacs Direct Credit, CHAPS and Faster Payments.
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A Faster Payment is a type of electronic transfer, designed to speed up the process of sending money within the UK. This guide will tell you everything you need to know about the Faster Payments Service and how your business can use it.
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Invoice discounting is a way to get money flowing into your business faster – here's how it works.
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Your comprehensive resource for understanding the challenges and opportunities that Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) presents for global subscription businesses.
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What can other countries learn from the UK's digital-first approach to payments?
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We surveyed 4000 consumers, this is what they said.
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The UK is getting an 18-month phased implementation of SCA
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Get your business ready for the incoming new payment rules.
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Your monthly resource for tackling the complexities and challenges of the international recurring payments space.
Strong Customer Authentication will dramatically change payments in Europe.
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Learn everything you need to know about Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), and how you can prepare your business in our on-demand webinar.
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Our General Counsel, Ahmed Badr, explains in these short videos.