PaymentsStrategy Tag
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Oct 14th, 2026
Straata: Finding the Payments Revenue Hiding in Plain Sight
Straata combines payments expertise and technology to help ISVs examine processor contracts, reconcile residuals, optimize interchange, and uncover missed payments revenue.
Aug 6th, 2026
The Fintech Stack Is Getting Repriced
FIS exploring sales of capital markets assets is another sign that legacy fintech infrastructure companies are being forced to decide what they really are.
Jul 9th, 2026
If Big Banks Buy the Debit Rails, the Payments Pricing Game Changes
The reported interest by major banks in acquiring Fiserv's debit network could reshape debit routing, interchange economics, flat-rate pricing, and the future of embedded payments.
Jun 10th, 2026
Preferred Partner, Not Prison: The Payments Lock-In Backlash
Kitty and Jason sit down with Jordan Thaeler, founder of POS+, to discuss embedded payments lock-in, merchant choice, ISV monetization, AI-enabled payment workarounds, and why preferred payment partners should not become payments prisons.
Jun 10th, 2026
POS+: Giving Merchants a Door Out of Payments Lock-In
POS+ helps businesses keep the software they rely on while connecting to their preferred payments partner, restoring merchant choice without breaking the operational workflow.
Jun 4th, 2026
The Great Payments Consolidation: Why Everyone Suddenly Wants to Be a Platform
Payments consolidation is reshaping the industry as processors, gateways, fintechs, and software companies race to own more of the stack, more of the data, and more of the customer relationship.
May 13th, 2026
Payments got messy. Good.
Kitty relaunches Cents Chat with Jason, Steve, and Chris to explain the new format, why payments are no longer background plumbing, and how ISVs, PayFacs, marketplaces, and fintech teams should think about real operational pain points.
May 7th, 2026
Interchange Is Becoming a State-Level Knife Fight
State-level fights over interchange, taxes, tips, and card-fee economics are turning payment pricing into a product, legal, finance, and customer experience problem for software platforms.
Apr 30th, 2026
Embedded Payments Are Not a Feature. They’re a Business Model.
Embedded payments are not just a checkout feature for software platforms. They are a business model decision that reshapes revenue, risk, customer experience, compliance, and operational responsibility.
Apr 16th, 2026
Your Marketplace Has a Payments Problem, Even If Checkout Works Fine
Marketplace payments are not just checkout. They are trust infrastructure involving seller onboarding, funds flow, payouts, refunds, chargebacks, ledgering, compliance, and customer confidence.
Apr 2nd, 2026
The Revenue Share Mirage: Why Payments Partnerships Go Sideways
Payments revenue share can look simple in a term sheet, but the real deal lives in definitions, deductions, support expectations, risk obligations, reporting, data rights, portability, and contract details.
