Payment Orchestration news and trends

Malachyte Turns Spotify’s Skip Signal Into a Merchant’s Agentic Edge
Artificial Intelligence // August 18, 2026

Watch more: Digital Shift With Malachyte’s Sidd Motwani Spotify solved a problem that most digital merchants still haven’t: how to understand who shows up to shop but prefers to do that without registering or checking in. For Spotify, an anonymous listener arrives with no profile,...

Visa Expands Payment Orchestration Pact With Dubai’s MoneyHash
Partnerships // April 20, 2026

Visa has expanded its partnership with MoneyHash, a payment orchestration/infrastructure platform for emerging markets. The expanded collaboration, the companies announced Friday (April 17), is designed to enable Visa’s Cybersource across the MoneyHash platform. Dubai-based MoneyHash first teamed with Visa in 2004 in a partnership designed...

Startups Bring Digital Payments Into Complex Healthcare Billing
Healthcare // July 10, 2025

When patients step into a doctor’s office, they expect care, not confusion. Yet for millions of Americans, the patient journey doesn’t end with diagnosis. It derails at the payment level. The latest PYMNTS Intelligence from the June 2025 PYMNTS Data Books report, “Clicks, Care & Copays—How Each...

Transcard Teams With Thredd to Expand Payment Orchestration Platform
Partnerships // May 27, 2025

Payments technology firm Transcard has teamed with Thredd to expand its payment orchestration platform. The collaboration, focused on Transcard’s SMART Suite platform, expands payment method optionality for customers and recipients for both B2B and B2C applications that offer virtual cards, according to a Tuesday (May 27) news release. “Many...

Interviews & Exclusives
Why Merchants Get Better Results When Their Payment Systems Work Together

September 01, 2026
Adding payment processors is relatively easy. Getting substantially better payment performance from the resulting network appears to be much harder. That distinction stands out in “Connecting What’s Next: Open Infrastructure for the Future of Commerce,” the August/September 2026 edition of the Optimizing Payments Tracker® Series from PYMNTS Intelligence and PayPal Open. Seventy-eight percent of companies […]

Malachyte Turns Spotify’s Skip Signal Into a Merchant’s Agentic Edge

August 18, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift With Malachyte’s Sidd Motwani Spotify solved a problem that most digital merchants still haven’t: how to understand who shows up to shop but prefers to do...

Startups Bring Digital Payments Into Complex Healthcare Billing

July 10, 2025
When patients step into a doctor’s office, they expect care, not confusion. Yet for millions of Americans, the patient journey doesn’t end with diagnosis. It derails at the payment level. The...

Payments in Motion: Orchestration Hits the Road With Travel Sector

January 03, 2025
The travel industry, perpetually in motion, has become a fertile ground for payments innovation. As the sector races to meet changing consumer expectations, payment orchestration is emerging as a linchpin...

Quick Reads
Visa Expands Payment Orchestration Pact With Dubai’s MoneyHash

April 20, 2026
Visa has expanded its partnership with MoneyHash, a payment orchestration/infrastructure platform for emerging markets. The expanded collaboration, the companies announced Friday (April 17), is designed to enable Visa’s Cybersource across the MoneyHash platform. Dubai-based MoneyHash first teamed with Visa in 2004 in a partnership designed to offer secure digital payments for MoneyHash clients in the […]

Transcard Teams With Thredd to Expand Payment Orchestration Platform

May 27, 2025
Payments technology firm Transcard has teamed with Thredd to expand its payment orchestration platform. The collaboration, focused on Transcard’s SMART Suite platform, expands payment method optionality for customers and recipients for both B2B and...

CellPoint and Southwest Expand Payment Orchestration Partnership

March 18, 2025
Travel-focused payment orchestration provider CellPoint Digital is expanding its partnership with Southwest Airlines. The new collaboration will see Southwest use CellPoint’s new cloud-native orchestration platform to provide a personalized travel experience via an...

CellPoint Digital Teams With Air Europa on Payment Orchestration

February 20, 2025
Travel-industry-focused payment orchestration provider CellPoint Digital has launched a partnership with Air Europa. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Feb. 20), is designed to help the air carrier process a wider range of alternative payment methods (APMs),...