Thoughts on Payments, Processors, & FinTech

This report provides an update on the Payments, Processors, & FinTech sector, recapping recent industry events and management meetings. Checkout.com Thrive Newport Beach 2026 highlighted new products and capabilities across Platforms (a new embedded payments solution for marketplaces, SaaS platforms and ISVs, live in the US with UK/Europe planned within 12 months), US direct acquiring efforts (Checkout.com now one of three companies processing payments with a MALPB charter in Georgia), expansion into Brazil, payouts, Remember Me, Intelligent Acceptance and Issuing. Flywire management meeting takeaways covered Q1 2027 comparisons, UK education growth, the domestic education opportunity and conversion of cross-border customers to the full Student Financial Software suite, and Sertifi;