How to use AI to stay ahead of fraud during peak seasons

High-volume transaction periods are critical to revenue but open the door to criminals. See how artificial intelligence slams that door shut to provide protection when you need it the most.

How Click to Pay turns seamless payments into a competitive advantage

The evolution of eCommerce has been a story of balancing simplicity and security. As consumers increasingly demand fast, frictionless payment options, merchants must keep pace or risk cart abandonment and missed sales opportunities.

Unboxing holiday trends: ACI’s insights on payments and fraud for the golden quarter

As the holiday season approaches, merchants are busy dusting off their payment strategies to prepare for the annual sales surge. ACI’s latest holiday report, Unwrapping Checkout Trends, provides crucial insights that should have merchants rethinking their priorities – especially regarding intelligent payments and fraud orchestration. Here’s a quick snapshot of the findings.

Pivoting to the new way of intelligent decision-making: The journey toward convenience

Neither the individual who initiated the first card-not-present transaction nor the organization that pioneered a customer convenience channel could have foreseen the trajectory and evolution of payment systems. Fast-forward to today – the commerce landscape continues to be propelled by consumer-preferred payment methods that are convenient, swift, and efficient.

Pay with my hand? No way!

While I was watching the news, a story came on about a new technology coming to the local Whole Foods where you could pay with your palm.

Need a refreshing spike in summer sales? Follow Amazon’s lead

Traditionally, the summer is a slower time for retail, with sales in the U.S. typically centered around key holidays like Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day. In the summer of 2015, Amazon changed everything when it introduced Amazon Prime Day, its own all-purpose summer shopping holiday exclusively for Amazon Prime members. This helped the marketplace giant in two ways: it increased sales during a lull, and it provided an additional incentive to become an Amazon Prime member.

Navigating merchant payments with industry experts

Payments orchestration is a game-changing strategy that centralizes payment flows across multiple providers and systems, but not all solutions are built the same. As the global economy becomes increasingly digital, organizations face a significant shift in payment processing and management.

Powering the world’s payments ecosystem with a best-in-class payments orchestration platform

Analyst firm Datos Insights recently released their Datos Matrix: Payment Orchestration Vendor Evaluation comparing payments orchestration vendors and named ACI’s merchant payments orchestration platform “Best in Class.” The main scoring categories Datos used to analyze payment vendors were provider stability, client strength, client service, product features, and functionality.

The Strategic Pivot: Why Smart Merchant Acquirers Are Turning to Payment Orchestration

As competition intensifies and merchants move to multi-acquirer models, traditional acquirers must up their game with end-to-end solutions that offer greater choice, reach, and capability.

Why white label is a powerful strategy for merchant acquirers: 6 insider secrets to get it right

For many merchant acquirers, a white label approach to payments orchestration is a smart strategy to keep capabilities and platforms ahead of the curve to meet aggressive expansion goals.

How acquirers can raise their game to be more, do more, and deliver more

The merchant acquiring landscape is evolving rapidly. How merchants handle payments is no longer seen as a purely operational issue – it’s now recognized as a strategy to drive revenue.

Loyalty, mobile apps, and payments… Oh my!

The CSN study gives hope for advancements at the c-store, but in many ways, it raises nearly as many questions as it answers.