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The payments leader’s playbook for peak season 2026

Prepare your payments for Black Friday and Cyber Monday with expert insights from J.P. Morgan and Primer on peak readiness, performance, and reconciliation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The real AI advantage in payments is context

Discover why AI needs unified payments data and context to optimize payment performance, reduce guesswork, and help teams make faster decisions.

Intelligent payments can’t be built on fragmented data

How Primer gives payments and finance teams the clarity, intelligence, and control to grow on their terms.

Agentic commerce: what it is, and how merchants should prepare

Learn what agentic commerce means for product discovery, checkout, payments and fraud, and how merchants can prepare without losing control.

EU co-badged card requirements: the merchant's guide

Regulation (EU) 2015/751 states merchants accepting co-badged cards must allow customers to choose which card network they use to process the payment.

5 ways to improve your payment authorization rates

Improving payment authorization rates is critical to ensure you're not leaving revenue on the table at the checkout. Here are five ways you can imporve your payment authorization rates.

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What do business leaders really think about payments?

We surveyed 150 executives and senior business leaders on how they're thinking about payments. Here's what else they told us.

You can have a 0% chargeback rate and still get shut down

A 0% chargeback rate won't keep your processing account safe. Qi Cao, CEO of Chargeblast, breaks down what processors actually look at, what VAMP means for merchants, and why most chargeback strategies start in the wrong place.

Decoding decline codes

Decline codes are a vital tool for every merchant's payment processing strategy, allowing you to maximize your payment performance. Learn more about what they are and how they work.

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The next era of payments runs on unified intelligence

We’ve raised $100m to build the AI-native infrastructure that the next generation of payments and finance teams will run on.

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