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Policy Perspective
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By Beth Provenzano Common Sense: Common Cents Act Advances in Both Chambers
Aug 19, 2026The United States Senate approved S. 1525, the Common Cents Act, by Unanimous Consent just before adjourning for the August recess. Earlier this summer, the United States House of Representatives passed its version, H.R. 3074, by suspension of House rules. Both chambers used Congressional procedural motions to expedite passage of this non-controversial bill, which aims to make coin rounding easier for merchants and their customers in the wake of the penny’s retirement. Because the Senate version of the bill differs from the House version, the House will need to either vote on the Senate version or the bill will move to a Conference Committee to iron out the differences.
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International Perspective
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Paul Tunstall APAC Isn't Following the Future of Payments – It's Defining It!
Aug 11, 2026Every conversation I have with merchants operating across Asia-Pacific reinforces the same point: there is no such thing as a single APAC payments strategy.
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MAG Insider
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Erica Forman From Nashville to New Resources: What’s New at MAG
Jul 30, 2026The countdown is on for MAG Payments Conference 26, and we hope to see you in Nashville September 27–30. Whether you're a merchant looking for to learn from your peers or a solution provider looking to strengthen relationships across the payments ecosystem, this is where the MAG community comes together. This event brings together payments professionals from across industries to share experiences, discuss emerging challenges, and learn from one another in an environment built on collaboration.
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Leadership Lens
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John Drechny The State of the Payments Industry: Mid-2026
Jul 23, 2026If you asked merchants across the industry to name their number one challenge right now, the answer wouldn't be a single technology or a single regulation. It would be the balance of delivering a better customer experience while managing transaction costs, keeping transactions secure, keeping fraud losses under control, and growing authorization rates. That balancing act has always been hard. In 2026, it's getting harder because every side of the equation is moving at once.
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Advancing Payments
John Ventura Credit Orchestration: The Next Growth Engine for Merchant Credit Programs and Customer Engagement
Jul 14, 2026The next phase of merchant loyalty will not be driven only by points, discounts, or traditional co-brand programs. It will be driven by the merchant’s ability to understand each customer’s financing need in the moment and guide that customer to the right payment, credit, or loyalty product without losing control of the experience.
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Payments Technology
Reed Luhtanen A Seat at the Table for Merchants – Let’s Define the Future of Payments Together
Jun 16, 2026The future of payments will be written over the next decade. For the first time in more than fifty years, new payments rails are scaling in the market. Foundational work defining the core aspects of how these networks will function is being done. Rather than standing on the sideline watching it happen, merchants need to claim their seat at the table, and the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) has one saved for you.
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GS1 US® helps companies power their supply chains to deliver safe, consistent, authentic, and trusted experiences. Best known as the recognized source for UPC barcodes, GS1 is a not-for-profit, global data standards organization that creates the common language that helps companies and their trading partners identify, capture, and share trusted data that links their physical and digital supply chains. Millions of businesses around the world power commerce with GS1 Standards.
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DEUNA is an AI-powered payments intelligence and orchestration platform built for high-volume, high-stakes enterprises. A single integration connects merchants to 400+ payment and anti-fraud providers. From there, teams get real-time visibility and control over every transaction, including routing, authentication, tokenization, and local payment methods. Changes no longer require engineering work.
At the core of the platform is Athia, DEUNA's agentic payments intelligence layer. Athia reasons over unified transaction data to answer questions in natural language. It surfaces optimization opportunities across acceptance, cost, and fraud.
Athia's agentic strategists and smart workflows go a step further. They automatically execute routing decisions, retries, and configuration changes at the transaction level. Performance gains compound without manual tuning.
Global brands including Sony, KFC, Domino's, Levi's, Coca - Cola and Volaris optimize their revenue performance with DEUNA. Founded in 2020, the company set out to replace fragmented, manually managed payments infrastructure with a single intelligent layer. Enterprises can start anywhere in it and grow into it over time. -
Recurly is the leading subscription growth platform, processing more than $16 billion in annual transaction volume for over 2,300 global brands, including Paramount+, Alaska Airlines, Sling, Experian, Nuuly, and Cinemark. Built on 15+ years of proprietary data from more than 100 million subscribers worldwide, Recurly's AI-powered platform helps businesses acquire, retain, and recover revenue at every stage of the subscription lifecycle. Recurly is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Learn more at recurly.com.
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Viewpost is a leading enterprise digital payments provider focused on real-time conversion of B2B checks to virtual card and other forms of electronic payments. Its innovative service is deployed through strategic partnerships with financial institutions, technology platforms, and direct to corporate AP organizations. Viewpost's proprietary payments engine dynamically converts paper checks into digital payments at the time of payment, dramatically improving supplier enablement, payment efficiency, and security.
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Cyclops enables payments companies to onboard with a single partner, unlocking stablecoin settlement, payins, payouts and treasury optimization across global corridors - all through a single API.
Cyclops was founded by payments executives and crypto veterans who were fed up with stablecoin fragmentation. The first complete stablecoin platform built exclusively for the payments industry, Cyclops combines the agility of orchestration with the comprehensive build outs of full-stack providers. Cyclops has end-to-end integrations to every leading provider at every layer of the stablecoin stack, and proprietary technology built on top to make payments use cases effortless. With this unique approach, Cyclops is the only platform offering product and license redundancy in all major markets, with dozens of partners and over 100 global licenses.
Learn more at cyclops.io.