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What is a White-Label Payment Gateway?

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Among these, white-label payment gateways have emerged as a game-changer, offering a customizable cutting-edge approach to payments. What is a payment gateway? To get to the bottom of the white-label payment gateway, let’s first take a moment to explore what a payment gateway is.

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New Data: Why MSPs Are Staking Their Futures On Value-Added Services

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Businesses need help to access and deploy these powerful tools, however – and this means their merchant service providers (MSPs) must be prepared to step up. Many MSPs, including acquirers, independent sales organizations, payment gateways and payment facilitators, are starting to recognize this.

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NEW DATA: Why 63 Pct Of Merchant Services Providers Want A Payments Overhaul

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These challenges are especially acute for merchant service providers (MSPs) and the clients they serve. After all, many businesses look first to their MSPs, including acquirers and independent sales organizations (ISOs), to connect them to the vast and growing digital ecosystem. Nearly two-thirds of providers, 63.5

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PayPal Deal, Connected Economy And Cyberwar Top Week’s News

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Are Virtual Cards The Future Of B2B Travel Payments? When Sabre and Visa announced a new partnership in April to pair Visa virtual commercial cards with the Sabre Virtual Payments gateway , the goals were fairly big: create a virtual B2B travel payments solution that was faster, more secure and more transparent for buyers and suppliers.

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What is a Payment Processor?

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Acquirers are the foundational layer upon which many other payment processors, including ISOs and aggregators, build, adding value with enhanced software and customer service. Collaborating with acquirers, ISOs facilitate the establishment and management of payment processing systems for merchants.

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What is Payment Facilitation as a Service or PayFac-as-a-Service?

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In response to the demand for sophisticated payment software and advanced technologies, payment facilitators have evolved, expanding their range of services. Currently, payment facilitators offer an array of services that differ among providers.

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The Difference Between a Payment Acquirer, ISO, and PayFac

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ISOs: Bridging Acquirers and Merchants Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) or Merchant Service Providers (MSPs) operate as indispensable intermediaries, bridging the gap between acquirers and merchants. You can think of both the ISO and the PayFac as the Payment Gateway stage.

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