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Agentic commerce: What changes for merchants when the buyer isn't the decision maker?

What does agentic commerce mean for merchants? Experts unpack customer intent, authorization, fraud signals, trust and AI reliability.

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Payment cost analysis: How to do it effectively  

Learn how to analyze payment processing costs, uncover hidden fees like FX markups, compare processors fairly, and reduce payment costs with better data.

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From marketplace founder to Prime Video: Swapna Kutcharlapati on seeing the customer behind every payment

Meet Swapna Kutcharlapati of Prime Video and learn how she reads payment data to understand customer behavior and keep payments from becoming a barrier.

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Payment vault or payment orchestration: How to choose the right option

Payment vault vs payment orchestration: compare token portability, PCI scope, routing, retries, and control to choose the right payments infrastructure.

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The infrastructure decision behind a more flexible payments stack

How Rail Europe approached the decision to invest in payments infrastructure and create more flexibility as its payments roadmap evolved.

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Build versus buy: Should your business become a payments company?

Should your business build and run its own payments infrastructure, or use a specialist platform? Theo Spyrides explores the trade-offs in control, cost and complexity.

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VAMP lessons from acquirers, risk providers, payments experts

Visa’s VAMP is changing how payment risk is managed. Experts from J.P. Morgan, Riskified, Chargebacks911 and more share what merchants need to know.

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API-first engineering at Primer

API-first means designing the contract before writing a line of code. Here's how Primer uses OpenAPI to generate clients, docs, and tests across its payments infrastructure.

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The hidden trade-off between global growth and local optimization

Every payment integration your team builds comes with a cost most PMs don't account for. Christophe Smol on the trade-offs shaping every payments roadmap.

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