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What’s Ahead in Payment Portfolios? Nine Trends for 2026
2026 promises to bring continued change, challenges and opportunities for financial institutions as they navigate their payment portfolios. Strategic consultants at Advisors Plus, a Primax company, have shared their perspectives on emerging trends and what financial institutions should anticipate in the year ahead. Relationships have become key to payments. Financial institutions are increasingly broadening their offerings to deepen cardholder relationships. At the entry level, fintechs such as Cash App have evolved from simple peer-to-peer (P2P) payments apps to creating closed-loop...
Consumers Hit the Brakes on Travel in Uncertain Economy
The Primax Fall 2025 Spending Report, a special edition of the Primax Payments Pulse, explores...
Neobank Tech Leads to Banking Innovation
It’s a statement that is becoming well-known and can be daunting for bank leaders: “Neobanks now...
How Cash App’s 3DS Data Only Approach Improves Fraud Control and Customer Experience – Simultaneously
In July 2025, Cash App expanded its use of EMV 3‑D Secure (3DS) with a Data‑Only approach – a mode...
Primax Payments Pulse
Primax Payments Pulse:
Summer 2024 Spending Report
The Primax Payments Pulse: Summer 2024 Spending Report compares year-over-year, same-store financial institution data and provides a three-month view of...
Primax Payments Pulse:
Spring 2024 Spending Report
The Primax Payments Pulse: Spring 2024 Spending Report compares year-over-year, same-store financial institution data and provides a three-month view of...
Primax Payments Pulse:
2023 Holiday Spending Report
The third annual Primax Payments Pulse: 2023 Holiday Spending Report compares year-over-year, same-store financial institution data and provides a three-month...
White Papers
Linked Analysis and Machine Learning:How New Tools in Risk Intelligence are Shifting the Focus from Detection to Prediction
As fraudsters continue to find new ways to commit crimes, banks must implement more sophisticated fraud solutions as part of their crime compliance...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payment App Fraud
With consumers embracing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) payments more rapidly, banks will likely want to allow for P2P transactions to remain competitive. This white...
2020 Eye on Payments
COVID-19 Drives Surge in Digital Adoption
For the third year in a row, we surveyed more than 1,500 financial institution customers from across the United States to explore payment preferences and...
