The FTC's Warning to PayPal, Stripe, Visa and Mastercard Exposes a New Reality. Payments Is Being Told to Monitor More—and Debank Less. They Need to Prove Not Only That They Manage Risk, but Why They Make the Decisions They Make. Intelligence Is How You Do Both. The payments industry is receiving two messages that, at […]

How Many Enforcement Actions Before Merchant Monitoring Becomes a Board-Level Issue? Paddle. Nuvei. Humboldt. The FTC Is Sending Payments a Message. Three payment companies. Three FTC enforcement actions. More than $21 million in announced monetary settlements or relief. And one increasingly uncomfortable question for every processor, PayFac, merchant-of-record provider, acquirer and sponsor bank: How much […]