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When it comes to payments, merchants need flexibility. With a mobile-first design and an SDK for easy integration, dlxPAY lets businesses take payments wherever they are. Jeff Willingham, VP of Product Development, shares more: https://bit.ly/3VwDQHW #dlxmerchantservices

Vertical SaaS platforms are always chasing growth - more revenue, more customer value. One fast way to get both? Pay by SMS. Merchants send a secure payment link right to their customer’s phone. The customer taps, reviews, and pays — no logins, no app, no friction. For platforms, that means: ✅ Higher payment volume ✅ More revenue per merchant ✅ Stickier retention ✅ A competitive edge Payabli’s API makes it easy to launch and proven to boost your payments business. Read the full blog to see how Pay by SMS drives revenue growth. https://hubs.ly/Q03Mpvl80 #paybySMS #fintech #embeddedpayments #TextToPay #paymentinnovation #verticalSaaS #payabli

Had a great conversation with Remo Giovanni Abbondandolo at Checkout.com on how we’re shaping the future of payments together. Tokenization sits at the heart of this transformation. It’s not just about security—it’s about smarter approvals, seamless checkouts, and personalized commerce at scale. With tokenized credentials, merchants gain higher approval rates, reduced fraud, and frictionless user journeys. Issuers retain visibility and control, while consumers transact with confidence. This is how we modernize payments for the AI era. At Mastercard, we’re now unlocking agentic commerce through Agent Pay—a program that integrates trusted payment credentials into AI-powered experiences.  Excited to see how our collaboration with partners like Checkout.com will accelerate this shift.  #Tokenization #CheckoutDotCom #Mastercard #AICommerce #CorePayments #EEMEA

Affirm Expands Partnership with Worldpay to Enhance Embedded Payments for SaaS Platforms Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) leader Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) has announced an expanded partnership with global payment services provider Worldpay, integrating Affirm into Worldpay for Platforms — the company’s embedded payments solution for software providers. Through this integration, more than 1,000 SaaS companies that use Worldpay for Platforms — collectively processing over $400 billion in payment volume annually — can now offer Affirm’s flexible and transparent payment options to their merchants and end customers. “Together with Worldpay, we’re making it easier than ever for businesses to offer flexible, transparent payment options at checkout,” said Wayne Pommen, Chief Revenue Officer at Affirm. “This partnership allows us to deliver Affirm to more platforms, more merchants, and ultimately more consumers.” Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, added: “Our focus is on giving software platforms and their merchants the very best tools to grow. Affirm’s proven ability to drive results for businesses and provide great experiences for consumers makes them an ideal BNPL partner.” With Affirm, approved consumers can split purchases into biweekly or monthly payments ranging from 30 days to 60 months, with 0% APR options and no late or hidden fees — reinforcing both companies’ commitment to transparency and consumer trust. #Affirm #Worldpay #FintechNews #BNPL #EmbeddedPayments #DigitalPayments #FintechInnovation #EcommerceSolutions #SaaS #PaymentTechnology #FinancialInclusion #RetailTech #PaymentProcessing #PartnershipAnnouncement

At Adyen, we put our customers first - and never has it mattered more than in the age of #AI. Our role is to enable our customers' ambitions through technology. We have long believed that enterprises and platforms - our customers - deserve to be in control: of their data, their relationships with their end-customers and of the experience they create. While #AgenticCommerce brings opportunity, there are also risks threatening business' access to data, end-customers and experience in jeopardy. #Adyen is committed to chartering a path that keeps businesses in control of their AI-powered destiny: 1. #AIagents may only act on behalf of shoppers after receiving an explicit, verifiable authorization (a mandate) that secures the transaction and proves intent. 2. Merchants must be able to support all #paymentmethods and manage their own #tokenization lifecycle, allowing one-click checkout, card-on-file, and #subscription models. 3. Merchants must be able to recognize and serve customers securely across #agentic channels through a universal payment token. 4. Merchants must own their #transaction data and customer relationships, ensuring that post-purchase visibility and service remain in their control. We believe the future is collaborative. That's why we're working with ecosystem leaders such as Google, OpenAI, Visa, and Mastercard, and with our global customers, to define open standards and protocols rooted in merchant control and shopper trust. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dm5pun8C #EngineeredforAmbition #Payments

At Money20/20 USA, Ani Sane, Co-founder & CBO of TerraPay, will join Interac Corp. for a discussion moderated by Paramount Commerce on how payment data transforms customer experiences globally.    Key themes Ani will cover:  • TerraPay’s data strategy built on interoperability, compliance and trust  • Using corridor analytics and failure analysis to identify friction points  • Leveraging delivery timelines, KYC data and pre-validation to boost speed and reliability  • Harnessing remittance-volume analytics to strengthen high-flow regions  • Developing proprietary real-time monitoring tools to ensure operational accuracy and compliance    If you’re shaping the future of payments with data, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss. Register here: https://hubs.la/Q03P4yQj0   #TerraPay #Money2020USA #PaymentExperiences #Data    Kristi Lewis | Isabel Lee | Tom Campbell | Brian Hodgdon | Amit Khurana | Juan Loraschi | Antonio Del Dago Herrera | Ralph Koker | Mor Gelbart | Juveria Samrin | Ashik Rao

Commerce is changing, today isn’t just about transactions, it’s about experiences. The checkout counter, once a transactional endpoint is now evolving into a meaningful touchpoint for connection and engagement. With ToneTag RetailPod 3.0, we’re reimagining this moment. Merchants can now activate personalized offers through simple voice commands, turning everyday conversations into instant, data-driven actions. The device communicates these seamlessly to customers, making every interaction faster, smarter, and more human. This is where commerce and experience converge, transforming payments into opportunities to inform, delight, and build loyalty. Because the future of retail isn’t about completing a sale but creating richer customer experiences and measurable business impact. #GFF #ToneTag #RetailPod #AI #Fintech #Payments

When most companies start building their payment stack, they integrate with a single PSP (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, and etc). At the beginning of a company's journey, it works well. But as transaction volume grows, that one provider quickly becomes a constraint: - Limited reach across regions and networks - Inconsistent error codes that make retries unreliable - Higher fees without routing flexibility - And the biggest risk, which is a single point of failure Payments fail more often than most realize, and how companies recover from those failures determines their revenue resilience. At #OSFF2025 Venkatesh S D and I talked about how companies can overcome these challenges and design resilient payment systems using Juspay Hyperswitch.

Great new report released by Mastercard on Agentic Commerce and their Agent Pay Proposition. Key Takeways: 1. 🤖 From clicks to outcomes — No need to train humans to think like software; now software acts for us. 2. 🚀 $136B → $1.7T by 2030 — Agentic commerce will grow 66% annually with Y Combinator betting half their latest batch on it. 3. 💰 Agent Pay launches globally — Mastercard's "Agentic Tokens" let verified AI agents spend your money within preset limits 4. 🏗️ Infrastructure is ready — A complete tech stack now exists for agents to negotiate, transact, and execute autonomously across platforms. 5. 🔄 Winners build trusted agents — Success goes to whoever creates experiences that consumers can trust. 🔗 Full Report in the comments

🎙️ New on the SEAA Podcast! #SEAA sits down with Naim Hamdar, Chief Revenue Officer for Payzli. Payzli is a next-generation payments technology company designed to make getting paid simple, fast, and transparent. The platform offers a full suite of solutions including tap-to-phone, POS systems, digital invoicing, recurring billing, and a robust gateway with developer-friendly APIs. With its partner-first approach, Payzli emphasizes honest pricing, flexible models like cash discounting, and in-house underwriting that speeds approvals — even for high-risk or emerging industries. Serving verticals such as beauty, wellness, tattoo, and service businesses, as well as retail and e-commerce merchants, #Payzli combines modern technology with deep industry knowledge. From empowering small businesses to supporting software platforms and ISVs, Payzli is building a payments ecosystem that helps merchants improve cash flow, enhance customer experience, and grow with confidence. Connect with Payzli: Naim Hamdar, Chief Revenue Officer naim@payzli.com #PaymentProcessing #CreditCardProcessing #MerchantServices #PaymentSolutions #DigitalPayments #Fintech #CardIssuing #PaymentSecurity #PaymentIndustry