Value Added Services news and trends

The Coming ‘Stair Step’ In Merchant Services Provider Spend
Payments Innovation // January 15, 2020

In payments, change happens at the speed of consumer behavior. As consumer preferences evolve (across channels, online conduits and mobile devices), merchants must react quickly. This has a ripple effect on merchant service providers (MSPs), the companies that have historically helped businesses accept debit, credit...

Optimizing Merchant Services: The Need For Speed
Payments Innovation // January 10, 2020

Creative destruction eradicates some business models and reformulates others. For example, merchant services providers (MSPs) have long supplied credit card processing for retailers as their central offering. They didn’t need to go much beyond that to be helpful or profitable, and many didn’t. But with...

Value-Added Services Hold Key To The MSP Future
Innovation // December 18, 2019

What do the biggest, most successful merchant service providers (MSPs) concur is the key to their collective future? PYMNTS got that answer, among others, in our just-published The Key To Optimizing Merchant Services Report, done in collaboration with technology firm Endava.  The answer to that...

Finding Payments’ 2020 Hidden Value Today
Payments Innovation // November 07, 2019

One of the themes of the coming decade — we’ve sprung for a top-shelf crystal ball here at PYMNTS, so we can state such things — is getting more value from payments, and making them an even more central part of the overall consumer experience....

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Mastercard, Pine Labs And The Global Buy Now, Pay Later Explosion

February 04, 2020
A quick survey of the most recent edition of the PYMNTS Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker indicates that a genuine sea of change is rising when it comes to how merchants want to interact with their customers, and how consumers want to manage their transactions. And it is something that one can observe all over the world in […]

The Coming ‘Stair Step’ In Merchant Services Provider Spend

January 15, 2020
In payments, change happens at the speed of consumer behavior. As consumer preferences evolve (across channels, online conduits and mobile devices), merchants must react quickly. This has a ripple effect...

Finding Payments’ 2020 Hidden Value Today

November 07, 2019
One of the themes of the coming decade — we’ve sprung for a top-shelf crystal ball here at PYMNTS, so we can state such things — is getting more value...