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Essential Guide to ISV Integrated Payments: Benefits and Best Practices

Stax

Choosing the Right Payments Partner The success of your integrated payment initiatives will hinge largely on the partner you choose to power your merchant services. Heres how to select the best provider. Industry experience and credibility Payments are complex, regulated, and fast-moving.

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Credit Card Processing for Small Business: Everything You Need to Know

Stax

We have broken down the process into three key steps below: Payment initiation This first step is triggered when your customer pays for your goods or services using a credit card. A payment processor is a company that handles the behind-the-scenes aspects of the credit card transaction process on your behalf.

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Prevent, Protect and Recover: Mastercard Strengthens Trust in Account-to-Account Payments

Fintech Finance

As a global solution Mastercard A2A Protect is designed to act as an overlay to existing account-to-account transactions, which means it can be applied to any A2A payment regardless of the payment initiation mechanism. This new initiative will help protect customers and merchants

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SAMA Announces Issuance of Second Release of Open Banking Framework

Fintech Finance

Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has announced the issuance of the second release under the Open Banking Framework, focused on the Payment Initiation Service (PIS). This second release of the framework standardizes how participants can offer PIS reliably and securely.

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SAMA Promotes Financial Innovation in Saudi Arabia With a Focus On Open Banking

The Fintech Times

As a result, SAMA has announced the issuance of the second release under the open banking framework, focused on the payment initiation service (PIS). The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) is working on strengthening the Saudi Arabian fintech ecosystem, and in doing so, has recognised the potential of open banking.

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How to Streamline Your SaaS Clients’ Merchant Underwriting Process—and Improve Adoption Rates

Stax

Products and services offered Industry risk Transaction size and volume Chargeback volume Billing policies As a software provider, you can implement some best practices to make these processes as streamlined as possible, so your users can get up and running with payments ASAP. Let’s explore them below. What’s next?

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Open Banking Focus: New Opportunities on the Ancient Silk Road

Open Banking Excellence

Innovation and the business environment in Georgia With fintech and Open Banking, we have a chance to act as a hub to enable the flow of data and the transmission of best practices on standards and regulations. We have APIs that handle aggregation of current accounts and payment initiation.