Tag: ISOs

Explore Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) in payments and banking—covering their role in merchant acquiring, underwriting, payment gateway integration, risk management, pricing strategies, regulation, and partnerships. Learn how ISOs shape the merchant experience and payments infrastructure.

In Defiance of the Prognosticators, ISOs Are Thriving Again

by Wesley Grant

April 15, 2026

As credit card imprinters gave way to electronic processing, an entire industry emerged around selling payment terminals to merchants. Decades ...

Managing Merchant Risk in a Complex Payments Ecosystem

by Andy Vrabel

October 18, 2024

Financial businesses that facilitate payment transactions—such as acquiring banks, payment facilitators (payfacs), and independent sales organizations (ISOs)—face a difficult balancing ...