Most of the payments chatter last week focused on Fidelity National Information Services' (FIS) mega acquisition of Worldpay (WP). The topic of conversation was the inevitable consolidation of the payments sector, as scale becomes critical to optimizing the payments experience and innovating new payments flows.
Another piece of Worldpay news broke last week that has as much potential to innovate new payments flows and shape the direction of commerce in the decade of the 20s, now only nine months away.
It was announced on March 20 that Worldpay would become the first merchant acquirer to