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  • Sep 10th, 2025

    When ISVs Date the Wrong Payments Partner: How to Avoid Marrying a Nightmare

    ISVs with brilliant software often get suckered into payments partnerships that feel more like messy divorces than profitable ventures. Before you get hitched, here's your prenup—aka everything you need to know about choosing the right payments partner.

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The FinTech Door May Be Opening. Are You Actually Ready to Walk Through It?

The May 2026 Executive Order signals a more fintech-friendly regulatory posture, but that does not mean ISVs, PayFacs, and payments companies can walk closer to the source with messy controls, decorative AML policies, and risk programs held together by vibes. If you want deeper bank relationships, direct access, or a more ambitious payments strategy, your compliance, governance, security, and operational evidence need to be ready for real scrutiny.

( Jun 10th, 2026 )

The Card Brands Changed the Rules Again. Did Anyone Tell Your Margin?

April card brand fee updates can quietly reshape the economics of embedded payments, platform revenue, and processor relationships. For ISVs and platforms, interchange changes are not background noise — they are margin events that need to be modeled, monitored, and understood before small fees become real money.

( May 27th, 2026 )
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