AI in payments: agentic commerce and the acceptance problem
Arthur Bedel (Monyz) on the two shifts AI brings to payments: agents that buy and pay each other, and agents that fix acceptance.
Technology
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Multi-acquirer merchant onboarding without the email chain
Merchant onboarding starts in a form and ends in an inbox. Here is why, and what changes when acquirers review inside the merchant file.
User Experience
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POS Reconciliation: How Matcher™ Matches Store Receipts with Payments
How ISVs, PSPs and acquirers serving retailers match store receipts with payment notifications automatically, with match-later, withdraw and a full audit log.
Technology
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Checkout Best Practices for PSPs and ISVs
What PayFacs, PSPs and ISVs should build into the hosted checkout they give merchants, from form fields and local payment methods to saved cards and fallback.
User Experience
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Payment inclusion in Europe: who your checkout leaves out
Andréa Toucinho (Partelya Consulting) on who digital payments leave out, what the European Accessibility Act changes, and how to design inclusion in.
Compliance
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Payment strategy: why money flows come before the product
Viktoria Soltesz (Soltesz Institute) on why payment and banking strategy comes before the product, why fees can cost more than taxes, and who should own it.
Market Trends
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Stablecoins for business: faster B2B payments and escrow
Jordan Lawrence (Damisa) explains where stablecoins solve real business problems: cross-border B2B settlement, treasury, payouts and programmable escrow.
Market Trends
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About NORBr Insights & Blog
In short
- 48articles published
- 4audiences: PSPs, PayFacs, ISOs and ISVs
- 9companion articles to #TheShot seasons
NORBr Insights & Blog publishes analysis for the companies that run payments for others, written from the operator’s side.
Each article looks at a payment topic through what it changes for your platform, your merchants and your margins. Topics include payment routing and orchestration, card networks and BIN data, authentication, 3D Secure and SCA, tokenization, PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, embedded payments for SaaS, instant and account-to-account payments, BNPL, stablecoins, AI and fraud, in-store payments and reconciliation, checkout best practices and the build-or-buy decision for payment infrastructure.
Alongside these analyses, you will find NORBr product updates, partner stories and the companion articles of #TheShot video seasons. Use the categories and the search bar above to filter articles by topic.
To go further, #PayDecoding explains key payment terms in plain words, and #PayWorldTour describes how people pay in each market.