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Payment Orchestration: Still the Holy Grail for Merchants?

Payment Orchestration: Still the Holy Grail for Merchants?

Louis Wapler (Manager, Paris) attended the European Payment Leader's Summit (PLS) in Amsterdam on 15th & 16th September 2025, alongside Mark Beresford (Director, London). During this event, Mark and Louis had the pleasure to moderate several discussion panels with payment experts from merchants and payment providers, with a particular focus on cross-border payments and orchestration strategies. Louis also chaired 3 merchant roundtable sessions involving over 30 merchants representing OTAs, airlines, hotels, fashion retailers, online trading platforms, and e-commerce food distribution companies. In this post-event article, Louis examines what emerged as the dominant theme across virtually every merchant conversation: Payment Orchestration. Despite the maturity of the concept, Louis discovered that merchants’ understanding and implementation approaches significantly vary across sectors, raising important questions about ROI justification and the true drivers behind orchestration adoption.

Payments
Payment Optimisation
by Louis Wapler | Oct 01, 2025
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5 min read
Payment Orchestration
Cross-border payments
Smart Routing
Reconciliation
Vendor Management
Agentic commerce declared the next big shift

Agentic commerce declared the next big shift

Mark Beresford (Director, London) and Louis Wapler (Manager, Paris) attended the European Payment Leader’s Summit (PLS) in Amsterdam on 15th & 16th September 2025. During this event both Mark and Louis moderated key discussion panels with payment experts from both merchants and payment service providers. Mark and Louis also chaired six different merchant roundtables covering a variety of hot topics – involving over 30 merchants representing OTAs, airlines, hotels, and fashion and general merchandise retailers. In this post-event article, we delved into one of the two primary topics that were top of mind for many merchants: AI agentic commerce and the implications of AI agents acting on behalf of consumers. In this article we asked if AI agents are operating today or is this something we should be thinking about in 6- or 12-months’ time and what should merchants and payment services providers should be expecting just around the corner. By the way – the other topic at the top mind of many merchants was Payment Orchestration.

Payments
Payment Optimisation
by Mark Beresford | Oct 01, 2025
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B2C
Digital payments
Hospitality
Agentic Commerce
AI Agents
AI’s growing influence on payments and fintech dealmaking

AI’s growing influence on payments and fintech dealmaking

In this article, Rohan Shaju (Consultant, Paris) from Edgar, Dunn & Company examines the evolution of Artificial Intelligence in the payments ecosystem, highlighting trends in fintech dealmaking for AI-native and AI-enabled companies. The article explores key categories of AI-related deals, including fraud prevention, B2B payments, and payment infrastructure, and discusses the implications for both investors and sellers.

Investors & Private Equity
M&A Advisory
by Rohan Shaju | Oct 01, 2025
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AI
M&A
Startups
Investors
Payment providers
Conversation with Eric Barbier, CEO at Triple-A.io

Conversation with Eric Barbier, CEO at Triple-A.io

Samee Zafar (Director, London) recently spoke with Eric Barbier (CEO, Triple-A.io). During their conversation, Eric discussed the growing role of stablecoins in cross-border payments, especially in emerging markets where traditional infrastructure is weak.

Fintech
Product Innovation
by Samee Zafar | Sep 02, 2025
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Cross-border payments
Stablecoins
Cryptocurrencies
5 steps airlines can take to move from blind spots to data-driven decisions

5 steps airlines can take to move from blind spots to data-driven decisions

Throughout 2025, Edgar, Dunn & Company’s (EDC) Travel Payments practice will be publishing seven articles as part of the series “From Plumbing To Shopfront: How ‘Payments” is Changing for Airlines” to cover seven identified payment-related issues across four themes: payment acceptance, payment issuing, internal organisation, and technology & processes. In this sixth article, Charlotte Piron-Seth (Senior Consultant, Paris) explores payment data management. Despite handling millions of transactions, many airlines still lack visibility, relying on fragmented reports and manual reconciliation. The article outlines how leading carriers leverage orchestration, automation, and real-time dashboards to unlock value - and sets out five practical steps to move from blind spots to data-driven decisions.

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Partner Selection
by Charlotte Piron-Seth | Sep 01, 2025
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airline payments
Travel
Data
Navigating payment infrastructure complexity: from silos to orchestration

Navigating payment infrastructure complexity: from silos to orchestration

Rohan Shaju (Consultant, Paris) and Louis Wapler (Manager, Paris) explore the growing complexity of airline payment infrastructure and the limitations of legacy systems built in silos. It highlights payment orchestration as a strategic solution to streamline integrations, improve agility, and unlock commercial insights.

Travel & Transport
Payment Optimisation
by Rohan Shaju | Aug 03, 2025
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10 min read
Travel
airline payments
Payment Orchestration
Smart Routing

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