Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Boost Payment Solutions’ Dean M Leavitt Payments leaders would be forgiven for equating the word “legacy” with old rails, monolithic systems and slow-moving infrastructure. In the age of artificial intelligence, the instinct across financial services has been to...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Spreedly’s Justin Benson In payments, complexity is often the product itself. The systems moving money across banks, networks, processors and merchants were built over decades, and while newer entrants frequently portray legacy infrastructure as outdated baggage, Spreedly CEO...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mladen Vladic of FIS Legacy systems occupy an awkward place in payments. While they are often criticized for slowing modernization efforts, they continue to handle enormous transaction volumes with reliability that financial institutions cannot afford to jeopardize. Mladen...
The first half of the year has been full of big themes, but the sharpest insights often came in the clearest sentences. Across PYMNTS Intelligence reports, executives and analysts described a payments and financial services landscape being rebuilt around speed, trust, data and smarter infrastructure....
Cue the July playlist and grab an iced tea. PYMNTS has announced it will convene the second straight year of Summer School 2026, a July virtual event series designed to help payments leaders stay ahead of the forces reshaping how money moves, how value is captured...
Watch more: Need to Know With Maverick Payments’ Rachel Costello The rise of embedded payments is reshaping how platforms position themselves within commerce, shifting from peripheral service layers to systems that control both the transaction and the surrounding customer experience. That transition remains uneven, and...
Change typically happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly. The embedded finance landscape is finding this out for itself in real time. A new survey of 515 senior leaders at U.S. companies for the April 2026 edition of the Embedded Finance Strategy Series, conducted by PYMNTS...
Historically, payments have been an activity-based business. Revenues are tied to transaction volume, interchange fees and, to some extent, the float generated by holding funds in transit. But according to the January 2026 “Wage to Wallet™ Index: The Divided Recovery: Labor Economy Workers Face an...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Galileo’s Maxim Spivakovsky Data has become a decisive force in payments, but most firms still struggle to use it with precision. That distinction, according to Max Spivakovsky, senior director of global payments risk management at Galileo, is separating...