[May Townhall] Fact or Fiction? Mythbusting Common Payments Beliefs 

Being a Payments Product Owner, Head of Payments, Payments Manager, or similar is tricky. Not only did you ‘fall into the industry by chance X years ago’ (as the classic payments conference saying goes), and face a constantly changing yet also always business-critical function, you are also presented with huge amount of noise. The payments industry is full of assumptions. Some are outdated, some are misunderstood, and some are downright wrong. 

In this month’s CMSPI Townhall, we’ll put common payments hypotheses to the test using real merchant data and real-world examples from the field. 

We all know that: 

• Merchants get to choose how their customers pay 

• A higher authorization rate is a better authorization rate 

• Multi-processor setups with ML decisioning is the path to optimal performance 

…right? 

From authorization performance and fraud strategies to routing decisions and cost optimization, we’ll explore where conventional thinking holds up, where it falls apart, and what the data actually reveals.  

Register now to make sure you don’t miss out on status quo-challenging insights from the CMSPI team.