Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
Why the Smart Money in Payments Is on Partnerships
August 12, 2025

Watch more: Shared Vision, Scaled Impact: The Power of Strategic Partnerships in Payments Within the software as a service (SaaS), reseller, banking and payments space, strategic partnerships are emerging as the victor of the buy-build-partner dilemma. While the old model of payments partnerships was often...

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Stax CEO Says Forget Payments and Focus on the Customer
August 06, 2025

Watch more: Stax CEO: Forget Payments and Focus on the Customer The year was 1995. Emails were occasional. The internet was limited to academia. While they couldn’t predict the explosion that would happen later that year when the internet grew from 10,000 to 100,000 dot-coms,...

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Ingo CEO Says Payouts Are the New Instant Paycheck
July 31, 2025

Watch more: Ingo CEO Says Payouts Are the New Paycheck With Modern Money Mobility As businesses rush to offer instant payment capabilities, there’s the danger of simply checking the box rather than embedding these capabilities into a broader, more strategic money mobility framework. This short-sighted...

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AWS: AI-Driven Payments Aren’t the Future; They’re the Present
July 30, 2025

Watch more: AWS: Cloud-Native, AI-Driven Payments Aren’t the Future; They’re the Present Innovation is writing the future of financial services. “In the payments industry today, innovation is not a luxury; it’s a lifeline,” Nilesh Dusane, global head of institutional payments at AWS, told PYMNTS during...

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Why i2c Sees Opportunity in Economic Turbulence
July 29, 2025

Watch more: i2c: Client Engagement and ‘Thoughtful Acceleration’ Key to Navigating Uncertainty In times of uncertainty, there’s often only one acceptable direction for businesses: forward. “Money must keep flowing,” David Durovy, senior vice president transformation at i2c, told PYMNTS during a discussion for the “What’s...

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How the Platformization of Payments Is Powering Omnichannel Retail
July 28, 2025

All the pricing strategies in the world won’t pay off if the payment mechanisms behind them aren’t the ones shoppers want to use. It’s an emerging wakeup call for a retail sector increasingly buffeted by tariffs and macro uncertainty: payments are now a key part...

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Marqeta Says Embedded Finance Will Turn Brands Into Banks
July 28, 2025

Watch more: Marqeta: Stability Is Key to Thriving Through Market Turbulence The global economic landscape, shaped by tariffs and geopolitical flashpoints, is redrawing supply chains and exerting pressure on business models across sectors. This environment is impacting executives in the payments and digital economy. They...

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Nuvei Takes Aim at Merchant Authorization Rates
July 24, 2025

Nuvei has introduced features aimed at improving its authorization rate for merchants in North America. The Canadian FinTech announced Thursday (July 24) it had added PIN-less debit and least cost routing to its authorization optimization suite, inclusions designed to improve authorization rates by up to 3.5 percentage points...

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Software Platforms Make Payments an Invisible Part of Their Offer
July 17, 2025

Watch more: Independent Software Vendors Make Payments Central to Customer Experience The digital pivot transforming payments is pushing independent software vendors (ISVs) to rethink their business models. What was once an ancillary function is becoming central to their value proposition, demanding innovation and strategic shifts,...