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In the modern business landscape, adopting open payments platforms is no longer optional; it’s a necessity. A PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Three Things You Need to Know About Open Payments,” a collaboration ...

In an era of evolving consumer preferences, merchants face mounting pressure to streamline payment processes. As payment methods diversify and the costs of transaction processing rise, open payments platforms have ...

In today’s fast-paced eCommerce landscape, platforms like marketplaces and aggregators are vital for merchants looking to expand their reach. However, they face challenges in offering diverse payment options while maintaining ...

Global investment firm Dominion has integrated Spreedly’s open payments platform into its payment stack. This integration will enable better payment routing and customer experience across the many markets Dominion serves, providing ...

As payment fraud continues to become more sophisticated, many payments companies advocate for a return to fundamental security practices while using new technologies to protect their clients. For example, Mike Rivers, ...

The complexity of the business-to-business (B2B) space is primarily what causes it to lag consumer-facing innovations. B2B transactions and the regulations they are subject to have unique and elaborate characteristics ...

As digital commerce evolves, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance their payment processes. And providers are working around the clock to give them exactly that. The emergence of open ...

Open payments platform Spreedly has expanded its partnership with payments company FlexPay. The new collaboration, announced Wednesday (June 26), is designed to recover failed transactions and eliminate involuntary churn for subscription ...

This week in PYMNTS, industry insiders discuss everything from composable banking to network tokenization to which tradeoffs lipstick buyers are and are not willing to make. The Future of Credit Carl ...

Network tokenization, a technology that replaces sensitive payment card data with unique digital identifiers, has been a hot topic of late. Long known as an effective eCommerce fraud fighter, it was ...

GroupSync has partnered with Spreedly to expedite value delivery and revenue growth for the hotel groups and event planners using its platform. With this collaboration, the GroupSync platform that provides online ...

The “platformization” of various business verticals promises to streamline online commerce. For example, digital freight platforms, such as Uber Freight, Convoy and Transfix, have transformed the traditional logistics and transportation industry. ...

With economic headwinds picking up, consumer spending behavior is poised to shift as households tighten their belts in some categories and economists try to make sense of the short-term and ...

Open payments platform Spreedly has launched a partnership with B2B commerce company NuORDER by Lightspeed. The partnership is designed to leverage “advanced payments vaulting solutions” to secure customer data during wholesale transactions, according to ...

There’s no shortage of evidence showing that digital payment methods are nearing a tipping point. As PYMNTS Intelligence and the Federal Reserve have reported, consumers and businesses are accelerating their use of digital ...

Inflation, inflation and inflation. The drum beat has defined the past year in the financial services business and reached a crescendo in the first quarter. But, according to payments orchestration solution provider Spreedly, which sees $50 billion ...

With consumers struggling under ongoing financial challenges, many may find credit card surcharges to be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back, leading them to be less loyal to ...

The recent credit card surcharge agreement brings into focus the impact regulations could have on businesses. Spreedly Vice President of Product Joe Meuse explains what the changes could mean for ...

Olo has selected Spreedly to enable mobile wallet transactions for restaurants that use Olo’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for the hospitality industry. Spreedly’s open payments platform will enable the two companies’ mutual customers to offer ...

Andy McHale, senior director of product and market strategy at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that online platforms offer advantages to all stakeholders — and they can offer an optimal payments experience. But, as ...

The holy grail of payments — for merchants, for consumers and financial institutions — has two essentials: Reduced friction, and reduced fraud. Individuals want to be “known” to the entities with which ...

Payments orchestration platform provider Spreedly has appointed Lightspeed Commerce veteran Peter Dougherty as president. In his new role, Dougherty will oversee marketing, sales, partnerships, customer success and support, and other go-to-market (GTM) functions, Spreedly said in a ...

Joe Meuse, vice president of product at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that subscription-based business models face challenges and opportunities in meeting customers’ demands in the digital age. At a high level, he ...

PYMNTS asked industry executives across the payments and digital commerce landscape to give us their take on the pivotal shifts, technological advancements and strategies that have shaped business in 2023. ...

Andy McHale, senior director of product and market strategy at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that the future looks bright for faster payments here in the United States — and globally. Instant options, ...

Blake Whitson, vice president, payments and global customer support at Brainly, and Andy McHale, senior director, product and market strategy at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that payments orchestration can make all ...

In payments, Spreedly CEO Justin Benson told Karen Webster in a recent interview that 2023 “has been the year of retrenchment.” The time is right, he said, to take stock of corporate strategies and ...

There are as many ways to do business as there are businesses themselves. And each of those organizations has their own “One Thing” that they consider to be all-important in driving ...

Andy McHale, senior director of product and market strategy at Spreedly, told PYMNTS in an interview that in the age of digital commerce, dynamic routing can be key to customers’ loyalty ...

The world of payment services is constantly evolving and can be frustrating to navigate. That’s why payments orchestration is so important. And for those businesses that find themselves wondering just what exactly ...

In a world where eCommerce is king, routing traffic is a critical move. Merchants need to ensure a seamless experience that could otherwise deter customers from coming back. Moreover, payments optimization ...

3DS 2.0 — the security protocol for online payments — enables more effective targeting of fraudulent activity but has not been embraced by stakeholders to the degree that might be ...

One of the biggest pain points for both consumers and merchants is expired payment credentials. With card life-cycle management solutions, vaults can ease that pain by providing dynamic updates to ...

Historically, businesses have viewed payments vaults as a security and compliance cost of doing business, but with advancements in areas such as tokenization and life-cycle management, vaults can already help ...

Credit card vaults are essential to payment card industry (PCI) compliance. Vaults can do more than secure sensitive data to meet regulatory requirements. A recent survey showed that of the ...

Spreedly has launched a payment vault solution that improves transaction success. Advanced Vault combines modern lifecycle features and network tokenization with active management to optimize how payment methods are stored, refreshed ...

As businesses and households embrace subscriptions and recurring payments, their payment service providers must adopt new approaches to keeping payment details on file. “No one likes to see a subscription that ...

Travel is a vertical ripe to be examined, ready to embrace a technological shift — and a mindset shift, too — when it comes to payments. Spreedly Vice President of Product Management Joe ...

Consumers are craving digital payment experiences, the pandemic having whetted their appetites by expanding digital use to a wider range of retail transactions. PYMNTS research found that 30% of consumers ...

Merchant aggregators and marketplaces looking to compete globally must be able to support a broad range of merchant customers’ payment service provider relationships both swiftly and easily. Spreedly’s Randy Guard ...

With the rise of eCommerce bringing more retailers than shoppers could ever exhaust, consumer-facing businesses of all types fear cart abandonment above nearly everything else. Never has it been easier ...

Bank risk has entered the building — creating a new normal for CFOs. In light of last month’s banking collapses, avoiding single points of failure has shot up the priority list ...

Randy Guard, chief marketing officer and product officer at Spreedly, told PYMNTS that merchant aggregators are confronted with a host of challenges when helping their merchant customers. “These platforms, basically, offer ...

Artificial intelligence can change the paths of payment and commerce. Literally. “There are many spaces that AI and machine learning can influence,” Andy McHale, senior director of product and ...

Payments orchestration can be a valuable resource in meeting the demands that come with adopting new payment methods, Spreedly CEO Justin Benson writes in the new PYMNTS eBook, “2023 Payments ...