Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Maverick Payments’ Ben Griefer As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes nearly every corner of financial services, the payments industry is confronting a question that extends beyond technology: Is AI primarily a tool for cutting costs, or can it become...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Matthew Pearce of i2c For years, payment processors competed on uptime, scale and cost. Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing those dynamics, pushing providers to demonstrate that they can help financial institutions make better decisions at the speed of...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Spreedly’s Judd Howard Artificial intelligence is compressing the distance between differentiation and commoditization across the payments industry. Features that once signaled innovation, like forecasting, personalization and data synthesis, are becoming baseline expectations. For Judd Howard, senior product manager,...
Payments orchestration has evolved to the point where any debate is no longer whether merchants should connect to multiple processors, payment methods and acquiring partners. Most already have. The broader challenge may center on why some businesses that invested in orchestration still struggle with failed...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Doug Fry The modern checkout page has become a proving ground where speed, trust and data quality determine whether a purchase succeeds or disappears. In short, getting as much value from payment information is a top priority. It’s...
Micropayments are arguably, and so far, among the digital realm’s great unrealized opportunities. Every few years, advances in payments technology have revived predictions that consumers would soon pay pennies to read an article, fractions of a cent to stream a song or a few cents...
Orchestration solves a longstanding challenge in payments. It allows merchants to connect to multiple payment providers through a single layer of infrastructure, dynamically route transactions to maximize approval rates, reduce downtime through automated failover and gain leverage over providers by making it easier to switch...
Cash App users can now pay by tapping with a wand. The Cash App Wand is a pearlescent physical payment accessory that is the first example of a new payment form factor called Cash App Tags, the company said in a Thursday (June 4) press...
The debate around stablecoins often gets framed as though finance has stumbled into unprecedented territory. Silicon Valley talks about programmable dollars, Washington worries about digital bank runs and crypto advocates promise faster payments while skeptics warn about shadow banking in new clothes. America’s financial sector...