AEX Blog

PAC-MAN™ was never a very realistic game. He would eat and eat and eat but never get any bigger.

The Merchant Acquiring game is very much like a realistic version of PAC-MAN™. If Acquirers and ISOs don’t acquire merchants, they’ll be eaten. But make no mistake, the ones who do the most acquiring...

Anyone who has opened a merchant bank account can attest that the client approval process is slow and complex. As margins decrease and merchant attrition increases, bank executives responsible for customer experience are searching for ways to remain competitive. Their goal? To understand the...

Traditional payments organizations have new competition. It’s not just Square and Stripe, it’s companies like Shopify and PayPal’s Business in a Box that provide full suites of offerings on top of payment processing. Although merchants still require payments to do business, today it seems more...

Anti money-laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements form the critical underpinning of financial regulation. In recent years, there has been increased pressure on regulators to introduce additional AML and KYC reforms as a result of some high profile controversies involving...

Square, Stripe, and PayPal have become the poster children for the new acquiring era of payment facilitation. Less than ten years ago, these technology-focused disruptors entered the market with a fiercely underestimated growth potential. After all, how could offering product solutions built...