A broad view of the payments landscape — from card network developments and acquiring trends to market shifts and emerging infrastructure. Coverage aimed at merchants, payment professionals, and anyone trying to make sense of how the global payments ecosystem is evolving.
The most common assumption about MATCH is also the most wrong one: that fixing the problem gets you removed sooner. For all but two reason codes, that isn't how it works.
SBC Summit 2026 starts today in Lisbon — three days, 35,000 professionals from betting, gaming, and payments. MMG will be there.
Since MMG is Prague-based, we're hosting this year, not flying in. A few things worth doing before the show floor gets busy — starting with booking the conversations that actually matter.
Our piece on Black Friday chargebacks covered the risk that shows up late — disputes that lag orders by four to eight weeks, landing on a ratio
Every Black Friday fraud guide tells you to watch the weekend itself. The damage that actually catches merchants off guard doesn't show up until January and February, on a ratio nobody's watching anymore.
You've done it thousands of times without thinking about it. Underneath that spinner, a message is crossing five separate institutions, getting fraud-checked, and often authenticated — all in about a second.
The average merchant wins about 45% of chargeback disputes. What almost nobody mentions: winning doesn't remove the dispute from your chargeback ratio. Here's what it actually does.
MMG is headquartered in Prague — so when TES Affiliate Conferences sets up in our home city this September, we're not the ones getting on a plane. Our CEO and CTO would be glad to grab a coffee.
Most comparisons of MoR vs. PayFac assume both are actually on the table. For a lot of high-risk merchants, one of them never was. Here's why — and the decision that matters more.
Would you like to pay in your own currency?" looks like a courtesy. It's a markup, typically 3-7% — and Visa maintains a dedicated chargeback reason code for when it's not handled properly. Here's how to get it right.
What It Takes to Re-qualify Two very different questions get asked in the same breath, almost every time this topic comes up: "Can I
The EU built one age-verification app. It did not build one age-verification law. France, Germany, and Spain are already proving how different the national rules can get — and why that's a payments problem, not just a legal one.
AI companion apps are one of the fastest-growing categories in tech — and one of the least prepared for how payments actually work in a high-risk vertical. Here's what the payment stack needs to look like.
What You're Actually Paying in 2026 Most high-risk merchants know their processing rate. Few know their effective total cost. Processing rates, chargeback fees,
Why Dating Platforms Lose More Money to Billing Confusion Than to Fraud Most dating platforms assume their chargeback problem is a fraud problem. They build fraud
