
The Complete Guide to Merchant Payments Orchestration
Payments orchestration platforms typically provide businesses with a single place to monitor and manage multiple payment systems, payment providers and multiple payment methods, allowing merchants to offer customers a wider range of payment options, while simplifying the payment process on the back end.

The Rise of 3Rs: Resilient Consumers, Retailing Convenience and Rise of Wallets
The first quarter of the year has been exciting for merchants, globally. While ACI’s recap for the 2022 holiday season indicated strong consumer optimism, despite economic headwinds, consumers remained headstrong through the first quarter of 2023. Higher consumer confidence could be seen in the 18 percent increase in transaction volumes, compounded by a 24 percent growth in transaction values.

Unlock Benefits of Shared Intelligence to Fight Back Against Fraud in 2023
Banks and merchants must find ways to fill gaps in each other’s transaction intelligence to reverse trends around ever-growing fraud, and global payment partners hold the key.

Accelerating Commerce With Payment Links
When it comes to contactless ways to pay, customer expectations are shifting, and merchants are adapting to a digital world in which the payment experience is faster and more convenient than ever.

Decrypting Crypto: Staying Safe With Crypto Payments
As cryptocurrency payments in the merchant sector become more established, and merchants consider offering crypto as a way to pay, they will also be asking themselves if transactions are secure enough for everyday payments.

New Experiences Driven by QR Codes
The use of QR codes for payments has made a giant leap forward over the past couple of years.


Making Your Mobile App More Engaging
The mobile app market is predicted to generate up to USD $950 billion by 2023. Merchants must have a mobile app to take full advantage of this growth, but so does everyone else.

Meet the True Enabler of Omni-Commerce
In a previous blog post, we talked about how you can share merchant tokens without worrying about PCI compliance. We closed that discussion with the promise to detail the many reasons you would share merchant tokens.

Decrypting Crypto: Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Vision and What it Means Today for Merchants
The first online cryptocurrency transaction was recorded on May 22, 2010 – 10,000 Bitcoin for two pizzas. Worth $41 dollars at that time, those “coins” are now worth tens of millions of dollars. Since then, cryptocurrencies and digital currencies have come a long way.

Incremental Learning: The Real-Time Hero Taking on Fraud
In the fast-moving world of merchant fraud, we can no longer rely on the past to predict the future. The speed and scale of change is such that traditional machine learning (ML) methods, which analyze historical fraud trends, can’t keep up.

Can Sensitive Cardholder Data Be Shared Without Worrying About PCI Compliance?
In a previous blog post, Can Cardholder Data be Stored Without Involving PCI Scope?, we discussed how the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) says it is possible to store a unique token that represents a cardholder’s Primary Account Number (PAN).

Can Cardholder Data be Stored Without Involving PCI Scope?
Is it possible to store cardholder data without PCI scope? The short answer is no, but that doesn’t mean you cannot store a reference to it. Let me explain.