What You Should Know About Visa Surcharge Rules in 2025
The complexities regarding visa application fees, visa surcharge policies, and the immigration health surcharge leave one bewildered, especially by the significant alterations made in 2025. The UK government has released a series of visa fee increase and surcharge updates across nuomerus categories, thereby affecting tourists, students, skilled workers, and even families. This means covering administrative […]
What are contactless payments?
Contactless payments are a faster, secure, convenient way of making contactless transactions in which there is no physical contact made between the payment device and the payment terminal. The user doesn’t need to swipe a card or insert it into a chip reader for a transaction; he can do it by tapping his card, smartphone, […]
Stax Payments Appoints Business Development
As Stax Payments continues growing its business and improving its market expansion, the company has made a very deliberate strategic play in putting Jeremy Krahl in place as its new Senior Vice President of ISV Business Development. This executive appointment is key to further establishing the company’s presence in a crowded market of payments technology […]
The Road to SaaS Success Growth Through Embedded Payments
The SaaS market has grown quite rapidly in the recent past. While it was $412 billion in 2021, it stood at $591 billion in 2023, increasing by more than 140%. However, the industry now faces a critical point. After years of unrestricted growth, the SaaS companies are shifting away from the “growth at all costs” […]
Stax Payments Appoints Valentin Neiconi as Chief Risk Officer
This makes Stax Payments, a pioneer fintech player in digital payments, announce it has appointed the new Chief Risk Officer, Valentin Neiconi. That strategic addition by the company demonstrates its commitment towards enhancing its framework of risk management and ensuring stronger financial risk management as it deals with a payments landscape that changes rapidly. Valentin […]
What is 3D Secure Authentication and How Does It Work
3D Secure Authentication has remained the cornerstone in secure payment systems as the rapidly changing world of online transactions requires secure payment processing. 3D Secure or 3DS is an extra layer of security that was originally implemented to better the security standards of online payment transactions. Essentially, it protects merchants and their customers from encountering […]
Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac
PayFacs are the central element of the financial ecosystem as they are meant to help merchants accept payments in the most efficient manner. This aspect brings with it great risk that needs sound risk management strategies. The following article then discusses some of the most significant high risk merchant management techniques, fraud prevention methods, and […]
What is ACH Credit and ACH Debit and How Do They Work?
Understanding ACH credit payments means knowing the way various kinds of ACH payments are being processed in the US banking system. ACH credit payments vary from ACH debit payments, and both of them are also different from credit and debit card payments. We shall discuss further differences between every kind of payment along with its […]
What is Embedded Finance and Embedded Fintech
This brings about a radical change in the financial landscape through the rise of embedded finance and embedded fintech. The innovative models are redrawing the line of how financial services are being delivered. One is the embedding into non-financial platforms, and the other is traditional financial institutions. Embedded finance concentrates on the enablers for businesses […]
There’s a Push to Ban Junk Fees. Does It Affect Credit Card Surcharging?
In recent years, credit card surcharging the practice by which merchants pass on the transaction fee for accepting a credit card to the cardholder has become increasingly popular. This trend is likely to continue, as a survey from consultancy CMSPI found that cost reduction is the top payments priority for 60% of businesses. In tandem […]