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216 briefings on payments, fintech, and AI money infrastructure.
Refund Operations: Controls, the Chargeback Double-Pay Trap, and Refund Fraud
An operator runbook for refund controls: the chargeback double-pay trap, refund-vs-void-vs-chargeback decisions, refund fraud, and refund reconciliation.
June 26, 2026
Marketplace Payment Operations: The Split-Payment & Connected-Account Runbook
Day-2 operations runbook for marketplaces: split-payment funds flows, seller payouts and holds, negative balances, reserves, split refunds, and disputes.
June 25, 2026
Egypt Payments Operator Guide: Fawry, Meeza, InstaPay, Cards, and Wallets
How operators actually accept payments in Egypt: routing across cards, Meeza, InstaPay, Fawry, wallets, and cash — and reconciling the lot.
June 17, 2026
AI Agent Payment Controls: Authority, Access and Evidence
A practical framework for agent payment authority, API access, limits, revocation and evidence—showing what each control can and cannot establish.
June 15, 2026
Authorization, Capture, and Settlement: Payment Lifecycle for Operators
An approved authorization is a hold, not settled money. The operator guide to the card lifecycle: authorization, capture, clearing, settlement — and the gaps.
June 15, 2026
Fraud Incident Response Runbook for Payment Operators
A live fraud spike is an attack in progress, not a metric. An incident-command runbook to confirm, classify, contain with reversible controls, and recover.
June 15, 2026
Issuer, Acquirer, Gateway, PSP: The Payment Stack Operators Actually Contract With
The payment stack is a map of who you contract with, who holds your money, who carries liability, and who you call when a payment breaks — not a glossary.
June 15, 2026
Ongoing Merchant Monitoring: KYB Does Not End at Onboarding
The merchant you approved drifts. A lifecycle playbook for risk-tiering, re-screening, monitoring signals, graduated response, and offboarding.
June 15, 2026
Payout and Disbursement Failure Runbook for Payment Operators
When a payout fails, localize the failed leg, never blind-retry, and use idempotency to avoid paying twice. An operator runbook for outbound-money failures.
June 15, 2026
Promo and Referral Abuse: Controls for Payment Operators
Promo and referral abuse games growth rewards by exploiting eligibility, not stealing cards. An operator playbook for signals, controls, and response.
June 15, 2026
PSP and Acquirer Outage Failover Runbook: Detecting Degradation, Failing Over Cleanly, and Recovering Without Double Charges
When a PSP or acquirer degrades, every second is failed payments. A runbook to detect the outage, fail over cleanly, and recover without double charges.
June 15, 2026