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Payments that flow, integrations that grow
Friday, April 03, 2026
Welcome to Resource Guide Friday (RGF), where we highlight Green Sheet's Resource Guide stars. Today's feature, Coastal Pay, believes every business can grow with the right tools. When you partner with Coastal Pay, you partner with a team focused on innovating and providing new solutions for an ever-changing market.
Americans prefer cards over digital payments, for now
Friday, April 03, 2026
In the 1967 film The Graduate, the character played by Dustin Hoffman is famously advised to pursue a career in "plastics." While the adviser was doubtlessly not talking about payment cards, it was a time when plastic credit cards were becoming ubiquitous. Now, nearly 60 years later, in the face of new and emerging payment form factors, plastic credit and debit cards still reign supreme. At least that's the case in the United States.
GS interviews Ingenico's Erik Vlugt on what's next for AI in payments
Thursday, April 02, 2026
As artificial intelligence moves deeper into the payments ecosystem, its role is shifting from back-end optimization to real-time decision-making at the point of transaction. That evolution is raising new questions around infrastructure, trust and the future of commerce. In this Q&A, Erik Vlugt, chief product officer at Ingenico, discusses where AI is delivering tangible impact today, what remains overhyped, and how the industry can balance innovation with the security and reliability that payments demand.
Australia axes card surcharges in payments overhaul
Wednesday, April 01, 2026
Beginning Oct. 1, 2026, Australian businesses will no longer be able to surcharge consumers who pay using a credit, debit or prepaid debit card under a package of reforms just published by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Additional reforms include the lowering of interchange fees paid by Australian businesses to 30 basis points (0.30 percent) and increasing transparency in the fees charged by the card networks and payment services providers.
