Pineapple Payments and Paystri Partner on Behalf of ISVs

In an effort to grow its ISV channel and support new innovative opportunities, Pineapple Payments has acquired a portfolio from and formed a partnership with payment processing and strategic solutions company Paystri. This most recent collaboration supports Pineapple’s vision to serve as an innovative leader for merchants in both technology and payments. And it comes…

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Mastercard’s Zahir Khoja on the Trends “Working in Our Favor”

According to Mastercard’s Zahir Khoja, 85% of transactions globally are still made in cash, representing an enormous opportunity for payments providers to grow digital acceptance. Presenting at PF WORLD 2018, Khoja told the audience that, while the number of cash transactions looms large, market trends are helping providers move many of those merchants toward digital payments with a focus on the experience it provides for consumers.

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Building the Next Amazing Marketplace? Your Top Five Payment API Must-Haves

If you’re familiar with payment facilitation, chances are that you’re already savvy about payments. As a payment facilitator, you become a “mini-acquirer,” managing your own community of merchants.

Payment facilitation can be critical to enabling new business models, but for developers it can present gnarly technical challenges. The top five “must-haves” for payment facilitator APIs are described below.

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Are APIs Vulnerable? Two Crucial Places PFs Should Focus Now to Help Mitigate Risk

In the payment facilitator world, APIs are everywhere you look. In many cases, they’re the mechanism that allows the system to work – enabling payments infrastructure to integrate with other functions in a way that solves businesses’ unique problems.

So not surprisingly, API security is a hot topic. Does the use of APIs leave merchants more vulnerable to fraud? What are the special security considerations?

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