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NMI’s perspective on payments industry trends, innovative tech solutions, merchant management and operational best practices. 

Warehouse workers loading cardboard boxes into a white delivery van at a fulfillment center loading dock, representing the surge in ecommerce order volume during Amazon Prime Day 2026. Contactless Payments Prime Time for Everyone: How Merchants Can Ride the Prime Week Wave By Peter Galvin Amazon Prime Day 2026 is here, and it's bigger, earlier and more commercially significant than ever. Running June 23–26, this year's four-day event arrives in June for the first time since 2021, a deliberate move by Amazon to capture consumer spending before summer competition heats up. With an estimated 201 million US Prime members and Amazon's online stores business posting 15% unit growth in Q1 2026, its strongest rate since the COVID stay-home period, the momentum heading into this event ... Read More
An international soccer fan wearing an Italy jersey taps his phone to a payment terminal in a busy outdoor crowd during the FIFA World Cup 2026, surrounded by fans in various national team jerseys. Contactless Payments The World Showed Up. Here's What the Payments Data Tells Us. By Tobias Ostwald The FIFA World Cup 26™ is not a future stress test for U.S. payment infrastructure - it’s a live one. And for cities already counting down to something bigger, the data from week one carries extra weight. Los Angeles is hosting eight World Cup matches this summer at SoFi Stadium. In two years, it hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics. The U.S. will then follow that with the 2034 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. What this year’s World Cup reveals about payment readiness is a preview of what the U.S. w... Read More
Bill Connect Premium invoice-to-payment solution helping businesses automate invoicing, payments, reconciliation and financial workflows. Online Payments Why Bill Connect Premium Should Be Your First Choice for Invoice-Driven Merchants By Matt Birchler In our earlier post, we explained why NMI Bill Connect Premium, powered by Biller Genie, makes so much sense for merchants. Now, let’s talk about why it makes so much sense for ISOs and software companies. As invoice-based payments continue to evolve, the ability to move beyond basic enablement and into optimization is becoming a defining competitive factor. Bill Connect Premium sits squarely in that shift. It extends Bill Connect from a functional tool into a lever for differentiation, creat... Read More
A small business owner sits at his counter, leaning over a laptop with a concerned expression, representing the financial threat that payment fraud poses to merchants Fraud Prevention Fraud-as-a-Service Is Here and Your Merchants Are the Target By Matt Birchler If you're a payment provider, the fraud threat facing your merchants is your threat too. What's more, it's evolving faster than most defenses can keep up. Increasing digitization, widespread AI-powered automation and the explosion of dark web marketplaces are all accelerating the growth of fraud. But there's a critical shift happening that doesn't get enough attention: the emergence of fraud-as-a-service (FaaS). Professional service providers on the dark web are packaging complex fraud tools... Read More
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