"all of their end party customers are immediately accessible to other intermediaries participating in the payments system"
Processing, switching, settlement
Push vs. Pull Payments
Credit Risk in payments
One reason why $ADYEN doesn't do full stack acquiring for Airlines
Why only banks (until recently) could join $V $MA networks
How to solve the Chicken and Egg Problem in payments? The Government
Why ACH is different
$PYPL invented the two small microdeposits to verify account ownership
"A debit transaction may be just as profitable for $V $MA as a credit transaction - certainly not true for a bank issuer. Although $V $MA set interchange fees, they do not receive those fees - in theory, $V $MA could be fine if interchanged disappeared entirely."
Clear definition of acquiring
Why debit card use is increasing faster than credit (not the faux BNPL "kids don't like credit" narrative).
A stable coin would be preferable for cross border payments because it wouldnt involve currency conversion costs + markups
"The top ten card issuers handled over 80% of total general-purpose card purchase volume at the end of 2015"
Why wire payments will always take forever
Payments behavior is very sticky
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"The pandemic marks an inflection point in the significance of the industry as multi-channel shopping journeys were ingrained in shopper preferences globally.... POS volume doubled YoY as unified commerce became increasingly business critical for merchants"n
"in the last four quarters we enabled more than $100 billion in payment volume"
"We’re a challenger in the payments industry, and we will offer free person-to-person payments domestically and internationally for people using the Novi wallet."
"that moment would represent Olo becoming the majority order channel for that customer... the dawn of digital ordering primacy. We're now seeing Olo restaurant customers who are processing 100% of their transaction volume through the Olo" - @nhglass
"QSR brands have grown over the years through franchising, leading to disparate technology systems across franchisee operator groups and manifesting in the kind of non-homogeneous environments for which $OLO was purpose-built"
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