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Merchant Settlement: Pros and Cons of Handling the Funds When You’re a PF

Since its inception, the payment facilitator model has been built on improving the client experience. Reducing and even eliminating onboarding delays to get merchants up and processing payments quickly is a hallmark of the business.

Don’t Miss PF WORLD 2018: The First Independent Event Just for PFs

The payment facilitator business just keeps getting bigger. And as it grows, so does a need for the resources to match. That’s why this fall, PaymentFacilitator is launching PF WORLD 2018. It’s the first-ever standalone event focused exclusively on the payment facilitator business.

Payment Facilitators and Liability: With Flexibility Comes Card Scheme Responsibility

The last two years have seen a surge of companies moving into the payment facilitator space. That in itself is not surprising. Becoming a payment facilitator offers tremendous flexibility and value for ISVs and VARs. With that flexibility, though, comes potentially significant liability

Money Transmission in the Payment Facilitator Model

The payment facilitator model continues to grow in popularity in the merchant acquiring space as a way to board merchants quickly and with minimal friction. While there are many benefits to this model, payment facilitators and their sponsoring banks and processors should be aware of the potential money transmission risks.

Expert Perspective: How Scary is Becoming a Payfac, Really?

For software vendors and others considering becoming payment facilitators, risk is understandably a top concern. So, for our ongoing series about the factors that go into deciding whether to become a PF, we ask experts a fundamental pair of questions: where does the risk come from, and how bad is it?

Should You PF? Choosing the Model That is Right for You

Every software provider that is considering accepting payments has a fundamental choice to make: Should you handle the payments yourself? Or should you outsource the payments piece to someone else?

To Lend or Not to Lend? That is The Question

As the payments ecosystem continues to evolve and the payment facilitator model continues to hold its own in both profit and demand, a long-time customer offering once considered banks’ domain keeps making its way into the payments arena: Lending.