Latest news with #paymentorchestration
Finextra
31-07-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Payroc agrees to buy BlueSnap
North American merchant acquirer and payment technology provider Payroc has agreed to acquire payment orchestration and AR automation platform BlueSnap. Financial terms were not disclosed. 0 Payroc says the deal creates a unified acquiring powerhouse that offers both end-to-end global card acquiring and eBanking processing capabilities to merchants, ISVs, and embedded technology partners. It also extends Payroc's acquiring footprint across 47 countries and strengthens the North American-focused outfit's position in the EU and UK. 'Integrating BlueSnap's orchestration layer with Payroc's direct-connect network transforms our ability to serve merchants and ISVs at scale,' says Jim Oberman, CEO, Payroc. 'This transaction dramatically expands our global footprint and the breadth of capabilities we can bring to our customers and partners." The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. Last year, BlueSnap and its former CEO paid $10 million to settle with the Federal trade Commission for knowingly processing payments for "deceptive and fraudulent" companies.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
IXOPAY Surges Past 500 Certified Adapters, Solidifies Leadership in Enterprise-Grade Payment Orchestration
With 200 PSPs and 300 payment methods, IXOPAY is unlocking faster global expansion, improved approval rates, and full-stack control for enterprise merchants. LEHI, UT / / July 15, 2025 / As global commerce accelerates, enterprise merchants are hitting a wall - their legacy payment stacks weren't built for the scale, complexity, or speed modern commerce demands. To stay competitive, merchants need infrastructure that adapts across markets, providers, and payment methods without costly rewrites or vendor lock-in. IXOPAY, a global leader in enterprise-grade payment orchestration, is addressing that challenge head-on with the announcement it has reached 500 certified adapters, connecting 200 payment service providers (PSPs) and 300 payment methods through a single, vendor-agnostic API. Payment orchestration is rapidly emerging as vital infrastructure for modern payments, and its effectiveness depends on the scale and breadth of the adapter ecosystem. IXOPAY's industry-leading global adapter network eliminates processor lock-in, accelerates integrations, and enables seamless expansion into international markets. As businesses modernize their payment stacks, IXOPAY turns infrastructure into a strategic advantage. "You can't scale globally without reliable, enterprise-ready connections," said Brady Harris, CEO of IXOPAY. "Our 500 certified adapters form the foundation for real orchestration, enabling merchants to enter new markets faster, adapt to change, and take full control of their payment strategy. This is what modern payment infrastructure looks like." IXOPAY's modular, vendor-neutral platform serves as the strategic control layer for enterprise-grade payments. Merchants can route transactions across providers, geographies, and methods through a single unified orchestration layer - supported by advanced lifecycle tools like smart routing, tokenization, 3DS, reconciliation, and real-time failover. With hundreds of certified adapters and pre-integrated services, IXOPAY enables low- and no-code connections to PSPs, APMs, and third-party tools such as fraud prevention, identity verification, and dunning. This unified approach accelerates deployment, improves approval rates, simplifies compliance, and gives merchants the flexibility to scale globally with ease. "We require flexibility, scalability, and speed - and IXOPAY provides a solid foundation for all three," said Clemens Leitner, CEO of DIMOCO. "Our needs have evolved over time and the platform has adapted, which enables us to scale and integrate a wide range of payment methods." IXOPAY has orchestrated more than $40 billion in payments, helping customers across 30+ countries expand faster and operate with greater control through its certified adapter network. As global commerce shifts toward adaptive, API-first infrastructure, IXOPAY is expanding its ecosystem and capabilities to meet growing merchant demand. "Payments are becoming more global, more complex and more strategic," said Jordan McKee, Research Director, Fintech, 451 Research S&P Global Market Intelligence. "As merchants increasingly pursue multi-processor strategies to gain flexibility and improve performance, payment orchestration has quickly become one of the most prolific and important merchant acceptance trends of the past half decade."* Resilience, flexibility, and speed are no longer tradeoffs - they're requirements. IXOPAY's platform is built to instantly reroute during outages, scale seamlessly with demand, and adapt to complex regulatory and geographic conditions. Learn more in IXOPAY's latest whitepaper: To explore IXOPAY's adapter catalog or request a tailored orchestration demo, visit Media Contact: Mills Forni, Verdis, mills@ About IXOPAY IXOPAY is the enterprise-grade global payment orchestration platform for businesses that demand scale, flexibility, and control. Orchestrating more than $40 billion in payments for customers across 30+ countries, IXOPAY combines one of the industry's most extensive adapter ecosystems with smart routing, tokenization, and full lifecycle tools, all through a single, vendor-agnostic API. By eliminating complexity and processor lock-in, IXOPAY turns payment infrastructure into a strategic advantage - enabling faster integrations, higher approval rates, and seamless expansion into new markets. Learn more at Research S&P Global Market Intelligence, Payment orchestration market update November 1, 2024 SOURCE: IXOPAY View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire Sign in to access your portfolio
Finextra
10-07-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Mattilda Selects Gr4vy for white-label payment orchestration across Latin America
Mattilda, a Mexico City-based fintech and edtech startup focused on automating school fee collection, has chosen Gr4vy, the cloud-based payment orchestration platform, to power Mattilda Pay, its new white-label payment offering. 0 This showcases how platforms are increasingly turning to Gr4vy for fully branded, customizable payment infrastructure, highlighting the growing demand for flexible, customizable payment infrastructure that platforms can run under their own brand. Mattilda supports more than 50,000 students across a growing network of private schools in Latin America. As it expanded into payments, the company needed a provider that could support its transition into a payfac, offering the right payment integrations, branding control, and speed to launch ahead of seasonal peaks. As a Gr4vy platform merchant, Mattilda gains full orchestration capabilities and uses a white-labeled solution that offers a fully branded experience to every customer they support. 'This partnership highlights what Gr4vy was built for,' said John Lunn, Founder and CEO of Gr4vy. 'We're giving platforms like Mattilda the tools to take control of their payment systems and scale without being limited by legacy infrastructure or vendor lock-in.' With Gr4vy for Platforms, Mattilda can expand into new markets like Colombia while tailoring payment setups for each school or partner it supports. The platform gives them the flexibility to manage multiple payment strategies under one system, without added complexity. This flexibility, combined with roadmap alignment and ongoing support, helped Mattilda launch Mattilda Pay quickly and stay on track for peak season. 'Gr4vy's payment infrastructure has been a game changer for us, helping us accelerate time to market across multiple geographies. With the right tools in place, our customers can focus on what truly matters: educating their students, not chasing collections,' said José Agote, CEO of Mattilda. Mattilda Pay is the first step in a broader expansion strategy across Latin America, with Colombia as the launch market. The partnership with Mattilda reflects Gr4vy's broader vision: to give platforms the tools to fully control their payment infrastructure, on their own terms. By enabling a branded, multi-merchant orchestration setup, Gr4vy is showing what's possible when payments are built to support scale, flexibility, and real business needs, not just integrations.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
From patchwork to platform: How payment orchestration is becoming core infrastructure
Not long ago, payments followed a relatively straightforward model: one provider, one integration and, (despite multiple redirects) one route from checkout to completion. But as commerce has become more digital, more global and more fragmented, the simplicity of that model has broken down. Merchants today must manage a growing mix of payment methods, regional providers, fraud solutions and value-added services. At the same time, they are under pressure to optimise performance, reduce costs and expand into new markets. These demands are putting serious strain on payment technology stacks, just as customer expectations for speed and reliability are higher than ever. In response, many businesses began turning to payment orchestration. Initially used to streamline connections between multiple providers, it has evolved into something far more strategic. Today, payment orchestration enables businesses to run their payment operations more effectively. It improves resilience, enhances adaptability and supports faster rollout of new functionality. The earliest adopters were in two camps. Some merchants were under great pressure to modernise, and others were naturally forward-thinking and focused on gaining competitive edge. In both cases, these merchants were digital-first, expanding across borders, and knew that their payment setup could not keep pace with their growth. Payment orchestration helped them simplify disconnected systems and take control of how payments were routed and managed. For many, it was a calculated risk that ultimately gave them a head start At its core, payment orchestration refers to an independent software layer that sits between merchants and their payment providers. Unlike gateways or aggregators of alternative payment methods, true orchestration is vendor-agnostic and connective rather than controlling. It enables agility while optimising payment flows and maintaining choice. What matters most is what sits within that layer and what those features enable. Capabilities such as smart routing, tokenisation, checkout personalisation and redundancy management can be implemented without reengineering the entire stack. This model significantly reduces the burden on development teams and allows businesses to focus more on growth than maintenance. For some time, the discussion around payment orchestration has centred on merchant needs: how to scale efficiently, manage risk and improve reliability. Increasingly, however, orchestration is proving valuable to the payment providers themselves. In the face of the demand for modernisation, many financial institutions are now asking the same question that merchants once did: build or buy? Some are investing in the modernisation of their acquiring platforms. Others are stepping back from infrastructure ownership and partnering with orchestration providers to bring more advanced features to their customers. Several acquirers have begun looking for white-labelled orchestration technology. The aim is to help them unify siloed systems, route volume more precisely, or serve merchants in markets where they lack direct coverage. It can give them a competitive edge without having to overhaul their entire architecture. This shift in thinking matters. Payment orchestration is no longer seen as a disruptive force. It is being recognised as a way to retain high-value merchant relationships while expanding capabilities in a more sustainable way. Another important shift is in how payments orchestration is being deployed. Full-stack transformation is no longer the only option. Many businesses are now taking a modular route, applying orchestration to solve focused challenges. Some implement routing logic only. Others begin with tokenisation or use orchestration for fallback and continuity. This versatility allows for precise, high-impact improvements. A gateway might adopt orchestration to extend connectivity and routing. A travel platform may integrate it to create more reliable checkout experiences without disrupting their acquirer relationships. A financial institution could use it to bring consistency across legacy systems and regional operations. These are just a handful of very simple examples, but the potential permutations are vast. In some verticals, payments orchestration is supporting even more advanced payment strategies. Gambling operators, for example, are using it across both pay-in and payout flows, layering in fraud prevention solutions, tokenisation and adaptive routing. In the digital goods and ticketing sectors, it is helping consolidate multiple brands under a single platform following mergers and acquisitions. Tokenisation is now a common entry point. Several businesses begin by using orchestration to manage scheme-level token compliance or consolidate token management across providers. From there, they expand into broader orchestration use cases over time. As payment orchestration continues to evolve, its relevance now extends far beyond early adopters. It is becoming shared infrastructure that benefits both merchants and providers. For many in the payment providers in the ecosystem, its role is becoming more obvious. It serves as a distribution layer that encourages collaboration rather than competition. As more merchants demand the level of control and flexibility that orchestration offers, providers need to meet that demand to retain and grow those merchant relationships. But they need to do it without rebuilding from scratch. This is not about undermining incumbents or competing on price. Sustainable orchestration works by reinforcing the connection between merchant and payment provider. That principle has to be part of the orchestration model, especially as adoption increases among more traditional financial institutions and platform businesses. What started as a workaround for disconnected systems is now becoming foundational. Payment orchestration has shifted from patchwork to platform, from tactical fix to core infrastructure. For those that adopted early, the gamble is paying off. And as global requirements grow and payment environments become harder to manage, payment orchestration is no longer a fringe innovation. It is becoming essential. Tom Voaden is VP of Commercial at BR-DGE "From patchwork to platform: How payment orchestration is becoming core infrastructure" was originally created and published by Electronic Payments International, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Finextra
24-06-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Gr4vy to rewire payments for Grammarly
Gr4vy, the cloud-based payment orchestration platform, today announced that Grammarly, the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity used by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations, has chosen the company's no-code cloud system to create bespoke checkout experiences for its millions of users. 0 Grammarly needed a solution that would allow it to optimize its payment performance by integrating multiple payment service providers (PSPs) without the complexity of direct integrations—an effort that would otherwise require extensive development resources and ongoing maintenance. Gr4vy enables Grammarly to experiment with different PSPs effortlessly while also improving efficiency, reducing transaction costs, and increasing approval rates. Through Gr4vy's single integration, Grammarly now has access to over 400 payment providers, eliminating the need for custom-built PSP connections. Gr4vy's plug-and-play, no-code platform allows Grammarly to activate new PSPs with a single click, eliminating months of engineering work and significantly speeding up time to market. Additionally, Gr4vy ensures redundancy and reliability—if one PSP experiences downtime, transactions are rerouted instantly, preventing disruptions and revenue loss. 'Grammarly's decision to use our platform is a testament to the simplicity and flexibility we offer, as well as our ability to deliver efficient and scalable solutions that will drive customer growth and retention,' said John Lunn, Founder and CEO of Gr4vy. 'We are thrilled to empower Grammarly with the flexibility it needs to optimize payment processes while focusing on its core mission of helping people and teams do their best work.' Grammarly leverages several key features of Gr4vy's platform to improve its payment operations. With Gr4vy's hosted payment fields, Grammarly can securely collect sensitive card data, ensuring full PCI compliance. In addition, Grammarly uses Gr4vy's Account Updater to handle recurring billing transactions efficiently, automating the management of expired cards and ensuring uninterrupted subscription management. These features allow Grammarly to continuously refine and experiment with its payment strategy while maintaining the agility and scalability needed to support its growing operations Gr4vy continues to redefine the payment landscape by enabling businesses like Grammarly to take full control of their payment strategies. With a flexible, scalable, and future-proof infrastructure, the platform helps companies boost profitability, streamline operations, and explore new payment experiences—without the constraints of legacy systems. As Gr4vy expands its global reach, it remains focused on providing businesses with the tools they need to succeed in an evolving payments ecosystem. Committed to progress, the company helps industry leaders unlock their full potential and shape the future of payments.
