Tag: PaymentsEd
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Declined. The Best Decline Codes from PaymentsEd 2026
Write Your Worst. Post It. We’ve All Been There. That was the whole assignment. We hung a six-foot board at the Networking Hub, stacked a table with cards that looked like auth response slips, and asked attendees to invent the decline code they wished they’d never seen. By Tuesday night, there was barely room left.…
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Nobody Planned a Career in Payments
There’s no payment degree. Most professionals landed in the industry sideways and learned by doing. Here’s where to go from here: FinTech master’s programs, industry credentials, and the practitioner communities where the real learning happens.
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Earn 16.4 CTP Recertification Credits. Three Days. One Conference.
The 2026 PaymentsEd Annual Forum is approved for up to 16.4 CTP/CCM recertification credits. See which sessions qualify and plan your schedule for maximum credits in Boston this July.
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Recap: AI in Retail Payments
The Technology Isn’t New. The Economics Are. AI and machine learning have been around for decades. Steve Mott from BetterBuyDesign deployed his first AI/ML application in 1990. What changed isn’t the intelligence; it’s the cost. Processing massive data sets in real time used to require serious capital. Now it’s affordable enough for mid-market merchants to…
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Ethoca’s Julie Fergerson Appointed to Merchant Advisory Board
The DRF PaymentsEd Forum, a non-profit organization focusing on delivering educational and networking opportunities to card-not-present (CNP) payment professionals, recently appointed Julie Fergerson, senior vice president of Industry Solutions for Ethoca, to its Merchant Advisory Board. All Board members are charged with delivering high-level educational and networking opportunities for tenured payments professionals and those just…