April 30, 2026

Payment teams track dozens of metrics. Approval rates, decline rates, fraud rates, chargeback ratios, processing costs. These are the numbers that show up in weekly reports and quarterly business reviews. They are all lagging indicators. By the time they reflect a problem, the revenue has already leaked.

April 30, 2026

These three terms get used interchangeably in vendor conversations, RFPs, and board presentations. They are not the same thing. And the confusion between them leads to infrastructure decisions that cost enterprises millions in missed optimization, excessive fees, and operational drag.

April 24, 2026

Most enterprise merchants have more payment data than they know what to do with. Every transaction generates signals: which processor approved it, which declined it and why, how long it took, what the fraud score was, what the customer paid with, and where in the world they were. Multiply that by millions of transactions a month, and the data pile is enormous. The problem is not a lack of data. It is that very little of it is being used to make better decisions.

April 23, 2026

With the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, Visa became the first major card network to provide a formal, protocol-agnostic entry point for agent-initiated transactions, with tokenization, spend controls, and fraud authentication built directly into the payment layer. This is not a roadmap announcement. It is live infrastructure, in pilot with real partners, and it changes the calculus for every merchant operating at scale.

April 17, 2026

If your checkout looks the same for every customer, you’re losing money. With $4 trillion lost annually to abandonment, the problem isn’t indecisive shoppers—it’s a broken payment experience. Discover how Dynamic Presentment uses real-time signals to surface the right payment methods for the right customers, turning 30% more "browsers" into "buyers" without increasing your marketing spend.

April 16, 2026

Most enterprise payment teams operate in reactive mode. A processor goes down, someone scrambles to reroute. Approval rates drop in a key segment, and it takes days to identify the cause. A new payment method gains traction in the market, but enabling it may require several weeks of engineering work. The team spends its time fixing what already broke instead of proactively identifying where performance can improve and acting on it before revenue is left on the table.

April 10, 2026

Every transaction today starts with a person browsing, comparing, and clicking buy. That model is changing faster than most payment teams realize. AI agents that discover, compare, and buy on behalf of consumers are moving from pilots to real transactions. For merchants, this raises one immediate question: is your payment infrastructure ready for a customer that is not human?

April 9, 2026

Payments teams today are not struggling with a lack of tools. They are struggling with how decisions are made. That was the central idea behind DEUNA's recent webinar hosted by the Merchant Risk Council, where Mark Wallick, VP of Product at DEUNA, and Svante Westerberg from Xsolla explored how agentic payments intelligence is changing the way enterprises improve approval rates, manage risk, and reduce operational workload. Here are the key takeaways from the session.