Modo Musings

Insights, updates, and thought leadership on payments orchestration, fintech innovation, and the future of commerce from the Modo Payments team.

Payments Switches + Modo
| Sam Brown

Payments Switches + Modo

Modo CEO, Bruce Parker, discusses a core piece of payments technology, the Payments Switch. Read below, or watch the video above to learn about payments gateways, where they are going, what their limitations are, and how Modo can help you take your switching technology to the next level.

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Payments Hubs + Modo
| Sam Brown

Payments Hubs + Modo

Modo CEO, Bruce Parker, discusses a core piece of payments technology, the Payments Hub. Read below, or watch the video above to learn about payments hubs, where they are going, what their limitations are, and how Modo can help you take your payments stack to the next level.

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How Modo Saves You Money
| Sam Brown

How Modo Saves You Money

There are lots of considerations to take into account when looking at your total cost of payments acceptance. Modo helps you save money across the board!

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PYMNTS.COM - Mark Lenhard Joins Modo's Board
| Sam Brown

PYMNTS.COM - Mark Lenhard Joins Modo's Board

Mark Lenhard, a PayPal veteran, is joining the board of Modo, bringing the experience of an operator, an advisor, and an investor, having completed work across the full stack of financial services. He told PYMNTS that he has “deep expertise” in payments on both the issuing and acquiring sides.

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PYMNTS.COM - Why Merchants Should Look for Payment Orchestration
| Sam Brown

PYMNTS.COM - Why Merchants Should Look for Payment Orchestration

FinTechs are helping merchants coordinate all of the different components that a payment entails with payments orchestration. Modo CEO Bruce Parker told PYMNTS that the term signifies “the ability to keep track of all of the different moving parts of a payment” throughout its entire lifecycle.

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Payments Infrastructure & Innovation: Why do Payments Matter?
| Sam Brown

Payments Infrastructure & Innovation: Why do Payments Matter?

How much do payments matter in business interactions today? Most #paymentsgeeks would argue payments are the most important part of business, and a hand full did in a recent panel during Money20/20 USA. Bruce Parker, CEO of Modo, sat down with Rene Pelegero (RPGC Group), Nanna Saito Nielsen (GoCardless), and Brendan Miller (Rapyd) to discuss the innovations happening to payments infrastructure. They spoke about all things payments from APIs to the challenges for eCommerce interactions. 

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Payments Infrastructure & Innovation: Are APIs the answer?
| Sam Brown

Payments Infrastructure & Innovation: Are APIs the answer?

Modo CEO, Bruce Parker, joined payments experts from RPGC Group, GoCardless, and Raypd at Money20/20 Vegas to discuss payments infrastructure and innovation for ecommerce merchants. One of the topics they spoke to was the impact of APIs on payments infrastructure.

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Payments Infrastructure & Innovation: Where should payments live?
| Sam Brown

Payments Infrastructure & Innovation: Where should payments live?

Do you know where your email server is? Have you ever thought about that before? Emails are something that people can easily say “Oh yeah, stick that in the cloud. No problem.” Now, what about your payments infrastructure? Can that live in the cloud just as easily? Brendan Miller, Rapyd, asked the group if the widening array of stakeholders for the payments function is affecting technical and product requirements. Bruce Parker, Modo CEO, and Rene Pelegero, RPGC Group, jumped into the discussion with a perspective on payments infrastructure and where payments should live in this discussion at Money20/20 Vegas.

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PYMNTS.COM - How Fintech Platforms Power Marketplaces
| Sam Brown

PYMNTS.COM - How Fintech Platforms Power Marketplaces

FinTech firms are aiming to serve the payment needs of marketplaces with technology that helps funds flow both in and out of their accounts — a process that meets many challenges when dealing with so many payment services globally, or even in just one country. Modo, in one case, has filled out a product around checkout, which it calls /Checkout, to focus on how money arrives at an organization.

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