Charles Zhu, vice president of product at Enigma, told PYMNTS that the pressure is on independent sales organizations (ISO) to reinvent themselves. And in doing so, they won’t just survive amid the great digital shift and growing competition from platforms and Big Tech. They can...
A quick glance at any online discussion board reveals the challenges confronting digital identity, and why we’re so wedded to the plastic driver’s licenses in our wallets. “People say, ‘I don’t like Big Tech getting involved in this at all,’” Tom Donovan, principal solution consultant at...
It’s been said that the holy grail of commerce is data. Even that holy grail has a holy grail — where data is accessible and usable in real time. Payments are becoming increasingly invisible, embedded in the consumer experience offered by merchants. Consumers view payments...
Just a few weeks left in 2019, and it will go down in history as the year of the payments mega-merger. The headlines were full of deals worth tens of billions of dollars, where consolidation has brought on a range of transaction-related services under the...
March 22, 2023
Charles Zhu, vice president of product at Enigma, told PYMNTS that the pressure is on independent sales organizations (ISO) to reinvent themselves. And in doing so, they won’t just survive amid the great digital shift and growing competition from platforms and Big Tech. They can thrive. A bit of background is in order: ISOs sell […]
November 01, 2022
A quick glance at any online discussion board reveals the challenges confronting digital identity, and why we’re so wedded to the plastic driver’s licenses in our wallets. “People say, ‘I...
December 12, 2019
It’s been said that the holy grail of commerce is data. Even that holy grail has a holy grail — where data is accessible and usable in real time. Payments...
October 31, 2019
Just a few weeks left in 2019, and it will go down in history as the year of the payments mega-merger. The headlines were full of deals worth tens of...
July 06, 2023
Merchant acquirer Merchant Lynx Services says it is expanding into new industries. To that end, the Florida-based company has purchased National Credit Card Processing Group (NCCP), according to a Thursday (July 6) press release. NCCP provides payment acceptance services and technology solutions to the B2B sector. Its chief verticals are construction and heavy-duty trucking parts and repairs, concrete ready […]
August 23, 2018
Numbers can be everything when it comes to any competitive landscape. That’s especially true when it comes to the competition for merchants in the battle to onboard them. The numbers?...
October 18, 2017
Cardstream and Creditcall have joined forces to free merchants and their acquirers from single-stack payment acceptance solutions. Cardstream — an independent white label payment gateway provider enabling payment service providers to connect...
