Navigating the crowded merchant payment provider landscape 🧭💳; Paytm's path to survival: securing vital license amid regulatory shutdown threat ✅🇮🇳

FinTech is Eating the World, 14 March

Hey Everyone,

Good morning & happy Friday! Due to a heavy workload yesterday’s issue is coming out today but boy it’s worth the wait 😎 Today, we’re going to navigate the crowded payment space (a deeper dive into the latest analysis of the leading PayTechs + lots of bonus reads inside) and explore Paytm's path to survival (how the Indian FinTech giant just secured a vital license + more bonus reads). So let’s jump straight into the awesome stuff 🌶

Navigating the crowded merchant payment provider landscape 🧭💳

Zooming out 🔎 In the fiercely competitive merchant payment provider (MPP) market, merchants face a challenging task in choosing the right partner to process payments and build better payment experiences.

With a mix of legacy behemoths, established digital-first players, and hungry newer entrants, the selection process requires careful consideration of factors beyond just available capabilities.

That’s why research and consulting giant Forrester just published a brilliant report analyzing the most important payment players. It’s a great way to look at things from a perspective and see how the payments giants stack up.

So let’s take a deeper dive into this, and uncover what matters so you would know who to work with and who’s worth both your time and money.