It’s been a wild ride for payment and merchant services in 2019. Big mergers have changed the landscape, instant and same-day payments are gaining ground, and integrated services and point-of-sale (POS) systems are reshaping transactions and even some business operations.
What’s happened in those areas, and what’s to come, was the subject of a recent PYMNTS podcast that featured Karen Webster and Neil Randel, CEO at First American Payment Systems.
The discussion took place as the year’s megamergers – which have reset the merchant services chessboard – are in the rearview mirror, but before all of those expanding companies involved in the deal have fully integrated with their new payment outlets and services. Things are still settling, but trends are being set for the 2020s.
