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Payment Data Can Keep Merchants Tied to Their Processors

October 20, 2026
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Payroc Says AI Makes Building Payments Software Easier, but Running It Is Another Story
Artificial Intelligence // October 15, 2026

Watch more: Digital Shift with Payroc’s Paul Vienneau The most important question for software companies building payments used to be whether they had the engineers, budget and time to do it themselves. Agentic artificial intelligence has already made that question obsolete. “The question has changed...

Payments’ Next Scaling Problem Is Complexity, Not Transaction Volume
Payments Innovation // October 14, 2026

Watch more: Beyond the Rails: The Infrastructure Powering Payment Partner Ecosystems Payments companies have spent years bragging about how much volume their technology can handle. That could be the wrong measure. The harder problem is what happens when every new dollar of payment volume arrives carrying...

More Than Two-Thirds of Firms Lose or Delay Revenue When Payments Fail
B2B Payments // October 12, 2026

A failed payment can look small on a transaction screen. For the business waiting on the money, the effects can spread fast. Revenue gets delayed, staff spend more time fixing problems and customers can lose confidence in the payment experience. “The Payment Guarantee Gap: Why...

Insurers Lead on Billing but Still Miss What Policyholders Want
B2B Payments // October 08, 2026

Property and home insurers have the best billing and payment scores of any industry PYMNTS Intelligence studied this year. They also have one in four policyholders ready to switch, and seven in 10 Gen Z policyholders ready to switch. Both things are true, and the...

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Payment Data Can Keep Merchants Tied to Their Processors

October 20, 2026
A merchant can negotiate a better payment processing rate and still face an expensive move if its saved customer credentials are tied to its existing provider. That tension sits at the center of payment orchestration’s promise. The technology connects businesses to multiple payment providers and directs transactions among them, giving merchants more choices about who […]

Payroc Says AI Makes Building Payments Software Easier, but Running It Is Another Story

October 15, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift with Payroc’s Paul Vienneau The most important question for software companies building payments used to be whether they had the engineers, budget and time to do...

Payments’ Next Scaling Problem Is Complexity, Not Transaction Volume

October 14, 2026
Watch more: Beyond the Rails: The Infrastructure Powering Payment Partner Ecosystems Payments companies have spent years bragging about how much volume their technology can handle. That could be the wrong measure....

Will Holiday Shopping Go Agentic? 40 Senior Execs Weigh In

October 06, 2026
AI may be ready to shop. Consumers are still deciding how much freedom they want to give it. “Holiday Retail’s AI Test Starts With Who Gets to Hit Buy” was produced...

Quick Reads
Nayax Aims to Transition From Payments Platform to Bank

August 06, 2026
Payments solutions platform Nayax is the latest FinTech seeking an American banking charter. The Israel-headquartered company announced Thursday (Aug. 6) that it had applied to the Connecticut Department of Banking to establish Nayax America Bank Inc., a “non-depository innovation bank” chartered under Connecticut’s Innovation Bank framework. “Payments are how we built our relationship with customers. This represents a larger opportunity to […]

Mastercard Considers Selling Vocalink UK Payments Business

July 13, 2026
Mastercard is reportedly considering a sale of its U.K. retail payments business Vocalink. That’s according to a report Monday (July 13) from the Financial Times (FT), which says this move...

Thredd Turns to Visa to Advance Cloud-First Strategy in APAC

June 24, 2026
Issuer processor Thredd has turned to Visa to advance its Asia-Pacific cloud strategy. The company announced Wednesday (June 24) the implementation of Visa Cloud Connect in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, allowing companies to access Visa’s VisaNet...

Visa Expands Agentic Ready Program to LatAm and Asia

April 29, 2026
Visa says it is expanding the agentic payments program it introduced last month. Agentic Ready, which lets banks and payment partners test agent-controlled payments, is being rolled out to Visa clients...