Payments Orchestration news and trends

WEX Says Embedded Payments Are Easier to Launch Than to Scale
B2B Payments // August 19, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With WEX’s Eric Frankovic Embedded payments can look simple at launch. A company identifies a customer pain point, integrates a payment capability and begins moving transactions through an experience it already controls. Then the challenges come when the embedded finance...

When the Tech Stack Becomes the Tech Problem
Payments Innovation // July 29, 2026

Digital transformation is usually presented as a ladder. Companies begin with a few foundational capabilities, add more sophisticated tools over time and become incrementally more efficient with each step. But findings in the July edition of The Orchestration Advantage Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with...

OpenPayd CEO Says Global Payments Need Less Plumbing and More Intelligence
Cross-border Payments // June 25, 2026

Watch more: The Digital Shift With OpenPayd’s Iana Dimitrova For years, the goal in global payments was simple: connect businesses to more rails. The pitch was always speed, lower cost, broader reach. The problem was access. Now access is no longer the problem. The problem...

The Smartest Payment Stack May Be the Simplest One
Payments Innovation // June 11, 2026

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...

Interviews & Exclusives
WEX Says Embedded Payments Are Easier to Launch Than to Scale

August 19, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With WEX’s Eric Frankovic Embedded payments can look simple at launch. A company identifies a customer pain point, integrates a payment capability and begins moving transactions through an experience it already controls. Then the challenges come when the embedded finance program starts working. “The first thing you really need to […]

When the Tech Stack Becomes the Tech Problem

July 29, 2026
Digital transformation is usually presented as a ladder. Companies begin with a few foundational capabilities, add more sophisticated tools over time and become incrementally more efficient with each step. But...

OpenPayd CEO Says Global Payments Need Less Plumbing and More Intelligence

June 25, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With OpenPayd’s Iana Dimitrova For years, the goal in global payments was simple: connect businesses to more rails. The pitch was always speed, lower cost,...

The Smartest Payment Stack May Be the Simplest One

June 11, 2026
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...

Quick Reads
Spreedly Adds Paysafe to Its Open Payments Platform

February 23, 2026
Payments platforms Paysafe and Spreedly have announced a new collaboration. This partnership, announced Monday (Feb. 23), sees Spreedly’s payments orchestration platform integrating Paysafe as an acquirer to process credit card and debit card payments for online merchants in Europe, North America and other global markets. “At Spreedly, we believe open payments drive better outcomes for merchants,” Michael Rokos, partner strategy director at Spreedly, said […]

Payroc Boosts Orchestration Offering With BlueSnap Acquisition

July 31, 2025
Payment technology firm Payroc is set to acquire payment orchestration platform BlueSnap. The purchase unites Payroc’s direct-connect acquiring infrastructure across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, and gives it access to BlueSnap’s global...

Fiserv Acquires Australian Payment Facilitator Pinch Payments

April 08, 2025
Fiserv says it has acquired payment facilitator (PayFac) Pinch Payments and its management platform Glassbox. As the company noted in a Monday (April 7) announcement, Pinch — founded in 2017...

Trustly and Spreedly Join Forces to Expand Pay-by-Bank Usage

February 06, 2025
Open payments platform Spreedly is working with Trustly to give merchants pay-by-bank access. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Feb. 6), gives businesses using Spreedly access to Trustly’s pay-by-bank capabilities, thus increasing Trustly’s U.S. market reach. “Our collaboration...