Wholesale payments in 2015

The purpose of scenario planning is to "depict rather than predict". Depicting a small number of future worlds facilitates the hardening of a planned strategy. Organizations with strategies made robust against such scenarios are anticipating better to changing environments during strategy execution. This scenario planning white paper investigates the long-term effects of macro-economic influences on the market of wholesale payments products, using the scenario planning methodology. Our extended research of trends turned into a scenario matrix on which the four worlds are based. The outcome of the described scenarios provides clues as to how the world of wholesale payments could look like in 2015.

Furthermore, the early warning indicators provided in the white paper tell wholesale payments decision makers which of the four scenario's is likely to become reality. This means that market players can prepare themselves in time for upcoming changes.