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- ‘No Signature Required’ Programs Expand
- $7.3 Billion Settlement – Short-Term Win for Merchants
- 2010 Spring Interchange Updates (Increases) are Here
- A Case For Regulating Debit Card Fees
- A Decade of Payment Industry Changes
- Add $$$ to your bottom line: Manage your Cost of Electronic Payments
- Advanced Card Analytics using BINs and Mod 10 Checks
- AFP 2020 Session preview: Harnessing Payments Data to Gain Powerful Insights
- AFP Atlanta February Luncheon Meeting
- AFP Conversations with Anand Goel
- AFP Payments Guide: Better Card Management Solutions
- Alipay and Visa: How the Two Titans Are Redefining Payments with APIs
- Alipay expanding to US Retailers
- American Express is Changing their Approach to Merchant Services
- American Express Launches First Automated Accounts Payable Solution: American Express One AP™
- Amex Loses Big on Interchange Dispute, Merchants Rejoice
- AmEx told it cannot enforce anti-steering rules
- Anand Goel added as a Payments Advisor for Proformative
- Anand Goel Added to Panel of Experts at PCI Knowledgebase
- Anand Goel added to the Editorial Advisory Board for AFP’s Payments Newsletter
- Anand Goel in Leaders in Payments Podcast
- Anand Goel Moderating Product Showcase at MAG Mid-Year
- Anand Goel speaking at NRF 2020
- Anand Goel speaks at MRC Conference
- Anand Goel to present at AFP’s 2012 Annual Conference
- Anand Goel to present at NACHA Payments 2013
- Apple Pay Mars Customer Engagement, Loyalty Cards
- Breaking News: US judge rejects Fed’s Durbin Amendment
- Business Banking FinTech Tide Enters Strategic Partnership with MasterCard
- Card Fees Pit Retailers Against Banks
- Card Network Nuisance Fees
- Card Networks to Use Tokens for Mobile & Online Transactions
- CFO Magazine Article – Use of Third Party Services
- Chicago Parking Meters
- Chip Card Nightmares?
- Client Engagement
- Collusion Course: Allegations Muddle Interchange Settlements
- Comparing Merchant Services Across Wholesale Clubs
- Comparing Merchant Services across Wholesale Clubs
- Consulting Services Expand to Canada
- Convenience Fees and Surcharge Rules
- Costco’s Near Zero Interchange with Visa and Citigroup
- Credit Card Competition Act of 2022
- Credit Card Surcharging Overview & Updates
- CROSS BORDER CHINESE PAYMENTS
- Debit Network Distinctions Blur
- Developing a Payments Innovation Strategy
- Domestic Payments in China
- Don’t lose sight of the April 2021 Payment Brand updates!
- Durbin Amendment & Fed Rules Q&A
- Durbin Amendment Final Rules
- Durbin Hearing Update – Repayment of Debit Interchange Fees?
- EBay splitting from PayPal
- EMV Status Report
- EU banks to take on Visa, MasterCard with new payments system
- European Interchange Update
- Fed Might Miss Interchange Deadline
- Finding the “Best” Acquirer
- FIVE BEST PRACTICES TO CONSIDER WHEN ACCEPTING CARDS IN AUSTRALIA
- Focus on Interchange Fees
- Framework For Reducing Payment Costs
- GAO Releases Interchange Report
- Get a Grip – Understanding and Managing Your Payments Effective Cost
- Global FinTech Optimized Payments Welcomes Four New Team Members
- Global Visa Study finds Small Businesses and Consumers Have Adopted New Behaviors to Adjust to COVID-19
- Guidance for Outlining your Key Payments Goals in 2020
- Healthcare Self-Payment Collections – Reducing Cost of Card Payments
- Hidden Impact of Inflation on Card Processing Costs
- How Accepting ATM Cards Can Improve Your Profitability
- Impact of Credit Card Act on Businesses
- Impact of Financial Regulations Proposal on Payments
- In advance of fee reductions for debit cards, online retailers prepare payment changes
- In Broken Market, ‘Swipe’ Fees Must Be Regulated
- Interac Debit is more than just a retail payment option
- Interchange fees cost you more than you realize
- Interchange Optimization: Are you getting the best rate?
- Interchange Updates & Review for 2nd Half of 2010
- Joining the World to Drive Sustainable Commerce
- Leveraging payment analytics to reduce interchange costs
- MAG Webinar: 5 Ways to Optimize Your Interchange Costs Now
- Managing Costs in the COVID World
- Many Retailers Opt Out of Visa/MC Settlement
- MasterCard Increasing Assessments to 0.12% for Large Tickets
- MasterCard Increasing Assessments to 0.12% for Large Tickets
- Merchants Allowed to Steer Customers Away from AmEx
- Merchants gearing up for the passage of the Durbin Amendment
- Mid-Sized Insurance Company
- Mobile Payments Growing in the U.S.
- Mobile Payments: FAQs for Retailers
- NACHA rule for WEB Debit entries takes effect on March 19. Are you ready?
- Network Tokens
- New Fed Paper Examines Interchange from Economic and Policy Perspective
- New Payment Brand Updates
- New payments expert joins OPC to solve payment pain points for merchants.
- New revised MC standards
- NRF 2020 Vision – Retails’s Big Show
- Online Calculator helps estimate the potential claim value from the $7.25 billion Visa & MasterCard settlement
- Optimized Payments Acquires Paul Larsen Consulting to Become Global Leader in Payment Analytics
- Optimized Payments at AFP2019
- Optimized Payments Commits to Donating $100k to Philanthropic Causes Each Year
- Optimized Payments Consulting Rebrands as Optimized Payments
- Optimized Payments Continue to Grow Team, Hires Payments Veteran
- Optimized Payments Continues Growth Streak: Global FinTech Welcomes New Project Manager
- Optimized Payments Founder on Atlanta Business Radio
- Optimized Payments Goes Global
- Optimized Payments Hires Chief Data Architect
- Optimized Payments Hires New Chief Data Scientist
- Optimized Payments in Atlanta Business Chronicle
- Optimized Payments Introduces Free Online Calculator to Help Merchants Estimate Their Monthly FAN Fee
- Optimized Payments is hiring!
- Optimized Payments Launches Free Online Calculator to Helps Businesses Understand & Lower Credit Card Processing Costs
- Optimized Payments Launches New Brand Identity and Website
- Optimized Payments Launches Online Calculator to Help U.S. Merchants estimate their potential claim value from the $7.25 billion Visa and MasterCard settlement
- Optimized Payments Scores Big on NPS Survey
- Optimized Payments to help U.S. Merchants file their potential claim for the $7.25 billion Visa and MasterCard settlement
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Expert Payment Strategist to Growing Team
- Optimized Payments Welcomes FinTech Industry Veterans as Strategic Advisors
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Four New Team Members
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Industry Expert as Head of Sales and Marketing
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Three New Leaders to Growing Team
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Two Experts to Technology and Data Services Team
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Two More Payment Processing Experts to the Team
- Optimizing Merchant Services
- Overview of EMV in the U.S.
- Payments are Constantly Changing – April 2018 Regs Release Highlights
- Payments are Constantly Changing – October 2019 Regs Release Highlights
- PIN-Based Payment Companies Could Benefit From Consolidation
- Pins Rising
- Potential Claims Process & Details of the Visa/MC Settlement
- Premium and Super Premium Cards – The Silent Killers
- Rapyd Launches All-In-One Payment Integrated Solution in Mexico
- Reducing Pain of EMV & POS Upgrades
- Reducing Payment Fees: Not Just a Fad
- Strategically Managing Card Swipe Fees
- Strategies for Managing the Cost of Processing Small Ticket Payments
- Strategies for Managing the Cost of Processing Small Ticket Payments
- Strategies for Reducing Payment Processing Costs
- Swipe Up. Reducing payment fees isn’t just a fad.
- Taxi drivers feeling the pain of credit card processing fees
- The Basics of PCI
- The Credit-Card Fees Merchants Hate, Banks Love and Consumers Pay
- The Evolution of Convenience Fees
- The Evolution of Square
- The Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation II Final Ruling
- The High Transaction Costs of Unattended Kiosks
- The top U.S. credit card issuers see increasing profits
- Those Nasty Network Fees by Elizabeth Whalen
- U.S. Retailers Receive $1.1 Billion Payment In Visa/MasterCard Antitrust Case
- Undercard Bout – American Express prepares for 12 rounds with the DOJ
- Understanding and Managing Your Payments Effective Cost
- Understanding and Reducing Chargebacks
- Understanding and Tracking Card Payment Acceptance Costs
- Understanding Fed’s Proposed Rules on Debit Interchange Fees & Routing
- Understanding International Processing Fees
- Understanding Players in the Payments Industry
- Understanding the Cost of Processing Card Payments
- Understanding the ISOs in the Marketplace
- Unlocking the Benefits: Level 2 & Level 3 Processing in Payments
- Upcoming Webinar – Crypto Payments
- Updates from Swipe-Fee Settlement Hearing on Sept 12
- Value of Discover & American Express Acquiring/Processing
- Value of PIN-Debit for Retailers
- Visa and MasterCard Settlement with DOJ and Merchant POS Implications
- VISA and TerraPay Partner Drive Real-Time Payments Interoperability
- Visa Easy Payment Service Program
- Visa EIRF is Gone Forever (…sort of), Visa Business B2B Eliminated
- Visa FANF Changes in April & July 2015
- Visa Makes Minor Concessions to Planned April 2021 Rate Updates
- Visa Outage & Global Payments Breach
- Visa to Support Two Tier Debit Interchange Structure
- Visa’s changes to swipe fees
- Visa’s Accelerated Connection Platform
- Visa’s Fixed Acquirer Network Fee & Calculator
- Visa/MC $5.74 billion Settlement Approved
- We are hiring! New Software Developer position open now.
- Webinar: Building Best-In-Class Payments Experiences
- Webinar: Framework for Selecting the Perfect Payments ‘Gateway’ Partner
- Webinar: Framework for Selecting the Perfect Payments “Gateway” Partner
- Webinar: Maximizing the Merchant-Acquirer Relationship: Best Practices for Powerful Partnerships
- What is your Processing IQ?
- What’s in a Basis Point?
- Why Retailers Aren’t Rushing to Adopt EMV
- Wirecard and the Curious Case of the Missing $2 billion
Posts
- ‘No Signature Required’ Programs Expand
- $7.3 Billion Settlement – Short-Term Win for Merchants
- 2010 Spring Interchange Updates (Increases) are Here
- A Case For Regulating Debit Card Fees
- A Decade of Payment Industry Changes
- Add $$$ to your bottom line: Manage your Cost of Electronic Payments
- Advanced Card Analytics using BINs and Mod 10 Checks
- AFP 2020 Session preview: Harnessing Payments Data to Gain Powerful Insights
- AFP Atlanta February Luncheon Meeting
- AFP Conversations with Anand Goel
- AFP Payments Guide: Better Card Management Solutions
- Alipay and Visa: How the Two Titans Are Redefining Payments with APIs
- Alipay expanding to US Retailers
- American Express is Changing their Approach to Merchant Services
- American Express Launches First Automated Accounts Payable Solution: American Express One AP™
- Amex Loses Big on Interchange Dispute, Merchants Rejoice
- AmEx told it cannot enforce anti-steering rules
- Anand Goel added as a Payments Advisor for Proformative
- Anand Goel Added to Panel of Experts at PCI Knowledgebase
- Anand Goel added to the Editorial Advisory Board for AFP’s Payments Newsletter
- Anand Goel in Leaders in Payments Podcast
- Anand Goel Moderating Product Showcase at MAG Mid-Year
- Anand Goel speaking at NRF 2020
- Anand Goel speaks at MRC Conference
- Anand Goel to present at AFP’s 2012 Annual Conference
- Anand Goel to present at NACHA Payments 2013
- Apple Pay Mars Customer Engagement, Loyalty Cards
- Breaking News: US judge rejects Fed’s Durbin Amendment
- Business Banking FinTech Tide Enters Strategic Partnership with MasterCard
- Card Fees Pit Retailers Against Banks
- Card Network Nuisance Fees
- Card Networks to Use Tokens for Mobile & Online Transactions
- CFO Magazine Article – Use of Third Party Services
- Chicago Parking Meters
- Chip Card Nightmares?
- Client Engagement
- Collusion Course: Allegations Muddle Interchange Settlements
- Comparing Merchant Services Across Wholesale Clubs
- Comparing Merchant Services across Wholesale Clubs
- Consulting Services Expand to Canada
- Convenience Fees and Surcharge Rules
- Costco’s Near Zero Interchange with Visa and Citigroup
- Credit Card Competition Act of 2022
- Credit Card Surcharging Overview & Updates
- CROSS BORDER CHINESE PAYMENTS
- Debit Network Distinctions Blur
- Developing a Payments Innovation Strategy
- Domestic Payments in China
- Don’t lose sight of the April 2021 Payment Brand updates!
- Durbin Amendment & Fed Rules Q&A
- Durbin Amendment Final Rules
- Durbin Hearing Update – Repayment of Debit Interchange Fees?
- EBay splitting from PayPal
- EMV Status Report
- EU banks to take on Visa, MasterCard with new payments system
- European Interchange Update
- Fed Might Miss Interchange Deadline
- Finding the “Best” Acquirer
- FIVE BEST PRACTICES TO CONSIDER WHEN ACCEPTING CARDS IN AUSTRALIA
- Focus on Interchange Fees
- Framework For Reducing Payment Costs
- GAO Releases Interchange Report
- Get a Grip – Understanding and Managing Your Payments Effective Cost
- Global FinTech Optimized Payments Welcomes Four New Team Members
- Global Visa Study finds Small Businesses and Consumers Have Adopted New Behaviors to Adjust to COVID-19
- Guidance for Outlining your Key Payments Goals in 2020
- Healthcare Self-Payment Collections – Reducing Cost of Card Payments
- Hidden Impact of Inflation on Card Processing Costs
- How Accepting ATM Cards Can Improve Your Profitability
- Impact of Credit Card Act on Businesses
- Impact of Financial Regulations Proposal on Payments
- In advance of fee reductions for debit cards, online retailers prepare payment changes
- In Broken Market, ‘Swipe’ Fees Must Be Regulated
- Interac Debit is more than just a retail payment option
- Interchange fees cost you more than you realize
- Interchange Optimization: Are you getting the best rate?
- Interchange Updates & Review for 2nd Half of 2010
- Joining the World to Drive Sustainable Commerce
- Leveraging payment analytics to reduce interchange costs
- MAG Webinar: 5 Ways to Optimize Your Interchange Costs Now
- Managing Costs in the COVID World
- Many Retailers Opt Out of Visa/MC Settlement
- MasterCard Increasing Assessments to 0.12% for Large Tickets
- MasterCard Increasing Assessments to 0.12% for Large Tickets
- Merchants Allowed to Steer Customers Away from AmEx
- Merchants gearing up for the passage of the Durbin Amendment
- Mid-Sized Insurance Company
- Mobile Payments Growing in the U.S.
- Mobile Payments: FAQs for Retailers
- NACHA rule for WEB Debit entries takes effect on March 19. Are you ready?
- Network Tokens
- New Fed Paper Examines Interchange from Economic and Policy Perspective
- New Payment Brand Updates
- New payments expert joins OPC to solve payment pain points for merchants.
- New revised MC standards
- NRF 2020 Vision – Retails’s Big Show
- Online Calculator helps estimate the potential claim value from the $7.25 billion Visa & MasterCard settlement
- Optimized Payments Acquires Paul Larsen Consulting to Become Global Leader in Payment Analytics
- Optimized Payments at AFP2019
- Optimized Payments Commits to Donating $100k to Philanthropic Causes Each Year
- Optimized Payments Consulting Rebrands as Optimized Payments
- Optimized Payments Continue to Grow Team, Hires Payments Veteran
- Optimized Payments Continues Growth Streak: Global FinTech Welcomes New Project Manager
- Optimized Payments Founder on Atlanta Business Radio
- Optimized Payments Goes Global
- Optimized Payments Hires Chief Data Architect
- Optimized Payments Hires New Chief Data Scientist
- Optimized Payments in Atlanta Business Chronicle
- Optimized Payments Introduces Free Online Calculator to Help Merchants Estimate Their Monthly FAN Fee
- Optimized Payments is hiring!
- Optimized Payments Launches Free Online Calculator to Helps Businesses Understand & Lower Credit Card Processing Costs
- Optimized Payments Launches New Brand Identity and Website
- Optimized Payments Launches Online Calculator to Help U.S. Merchants estimate their potential claim value from the $7.25 billion Visa and MasterCard settlement
- Optimized Payments Scores Big on NPS Survey
- Optimized Payments to help U.S. Merchants file their potential claim for the $7.25 billion Visa and MasterCard settlement
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Expert Payment Strategist to Growing Team
- Optimized Payments Welcomes FinTech Industry Veterans as Strategic Advisors
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Four New Team Members
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Industry Expert as Head of Sales and Marketing
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Three New Leaders to Growing Team
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Two Experts to Technology and Data Services Team
- Optimized Payments Welcomes Two More Payment Processing Experts to the Team
- Optimizing Merchant Services
- Overview of EMV in the U.S.
- Payments are Constantly Changing – April 2018 Regs Release Highlights
- Payments are Constantly Changing – October 2019 Regs Release Highlights
- PIN-Based Payment Companies Could Benefit From Consolidation
- Pins Rising
- Potential Claims Process & Details of the Visa/MC Settlement
- Premium and Super Premium Cards – The Silent Killers
- Rapyd Launches All-In-One Payment Integrated Solution in Mexico
- Reducing Pain of EMV & POS Upgrades
- Reducing Payment Fees: Not Just a Fad
- Strategically Managing Card Swipe Fees
- Strategies for Managing the Cost of Processing Small Ticket Payments
- Strategies for Managing the Cost of Processing Small Ticket Payments
- Strategies for Reducing Payment Processing Costs
- Swipe Up. Reducing payment fees isn’t just a fad.
- Taxi drivers feeling the pain of credit card processing fees
- The Basics of PCI
- The Credit-Card Fees Merchants Hate, Banks Love and Consumers Pay
- The Evolution of Convenience Fees
- The Evolution of Square
- The Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation II Final Ruling
- The High Transaction Costs of Unattended Kiosks
- The top U.S. credit card issuers see increasing profits
- Those Nasty Network Fees by Elizabeth Whalen
- U.S. Retailers Receive $1.1 Billion Payment In Visa/MasterCard Antitrust Case
- Undercard Bout – American Express prepares for 12 rounds with the DOJ
- Understanding and Managing Your Payments Effective Cost
- Understanding and Reducing Chargebacks
- Understanding and Tracking Card Payment Acceptance Costs
- Understanding Fed’s Proposed Rules on Debit Interchange Fees & Routing
- Understanding International Processing Fees
- Understanding Players in the Payments Industry
- Understanding the Cost of Processing Card Payments
- Understanding the ISOs in the Marketplace
- Unlocking the Benefits: Level 2 & Level 3 Processing in Payments
- Upcoming Webinar – Crypto Payments
- Updates from Swipe-Fee Settlement Hearing on Sept 12
- Value of Discover & American Express Acquiring/Processing
- Value of PIN-Debit for Retailers
- Visa and MasterCard Settlement with DOJ and Merchant POS Implications
- VISA and TerraPay Partner Drive Real-Time Payments Interoperability
- Visa Easy Payment Service Program
- Visa EIRF is Gone Forever (…sort of), Visa Business B2B Eliminated
- Visa FANF Changes in April & July 2015
- Visa Makes Minor Concessions to Planned April 2021 Rate Updates
- Visa Outage & Global Payments Breach
- Visa to Support Two Tier Debit Interchange Structure
- Visa’s changes to swipe fees
- Visa’s Accelerated Connection Platform
- Visa’s Fixed Acquirer Network Fee & Calculator
- Visa/MC $5.74 billion Settlement Approved
- We are hiring! New Software Developer position open now.
- Webinar: Building Best-In-Class Payments Experiences
- Webinar: Framework for Selecting the Perfect Payments ‘Gateway’ Partner
- Webinar: Framework for Selecting the Perfect Payments “Gateway” Partner
- Webinar: Maximizing the Merchant-Acquirer Relationship: Best Practices for Powerful Partnerships
- What is your Processing IQ?
- What’s in a Basis Point?
- Why Retailers Aren’t Rushing to Adopt EMV
- Wirecard and the Curious Case of the Missing $2 billion
