Payments
Where the FX Markup Hides in Cross-Border Payments
Cross-border card and wire payments stack several markups — issuer spread, network assessment, processor margin, and dynamic currency conversion of 2 to 5…
Author
Naomi Bergman
Naomi Bergman covers Finance News, Money News and National News.
Articles by Naomi Bergman
Finance News
What March 2026 CPI Showed: Gasoline Drove a 0.9% Monthly Jump
The BLS reported on April 10, 2026 that headline CPI rose 0.9% in March on a 21.2% gasoline surge, lifting the 12-month rate to 3.3% while core ran at 2.6%.
Payments
What Payment Orchestration Layers Actually Do for Merchants
Payment orchestration sits between checkout and processors, choosing a provider per transaction, surviving outages, retrying soft declines and unifying…
Innovation
How Machine Learning Models Score Payment Fraud in Real Time
Fraud models assemble device, velocity and behavioral signals into a score returned inside the authorization window, while Regulation B and CFPB circulars…
Finance News
How Credit Card APRs Track the Prime Rate When the Fed Cuts
Variable card APRs reprice automatically off the prime rate - 6.75% since the December 2025 cut and unchanged through the Fed's January and March 2026 holds -…