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Business of Payments

Geoffrey Barraclough

How Paytech makes money

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Business of Payments - May 2026

There are lots of big ideas in Business of Payments this month: sovereignty, AI agents, open banking and more. Meanwhile, the industry quietly gets on with consolidation, integration and the usual power struggles.

Read on for all the late...

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Business of Payments - April 2026

The payments business

Forrester’s latest research report underlines the growing capability gap between the three leading global processors – Stripe, Adyen and Checkout – and the rest of the industry. Nuvei is still a contender, Worldpay ge...

2 months ago
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Business of Payments - March 2026

The payments business

2025 results from the leading payment players show continued consolidation. The large, modern processors are taking share from incumbents and, more importantly, winning the fast-growing merchants of the future.

Strip...

3 months ago
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Business of Payments - February 2026

The Payments Business

There’s been no shortage of commentary about what’s gone wrong at PayPal. Volume growth has stalled, the CEO has been fired and the stock price collapsed following the Q4 results. A weak performance in Germany, where...

4 months ago
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Business of Payments - January 2026

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Business of Payments for 2026.

The payment business

We ended 2025 with news that Mollie, the well-funded Dutch payment facilitator, is buying GoCardless, the London-based A2A specialist. The price i...

5 months ago
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