PayFac vs. ISO: Which Should a Merchant Choose?
In the world of payments, selecting partners to help transact business is one of the most complex, but critical, processes any business can complete. Choosing the ri...
How to Migrate to a New Payment Processor Without Disrupting Business
Merchants often find themselves in the position of wanting, or needing to migrate to a new payment processor. A PSP migration is normally either to take advantage of...
Challenges When Migrating PSPs to Improve Authorization Rates
Upon completing the migration to a new payment service provider (PSP), payment professionals often let out a sigh of relief. Six months (or longer) of payment proces...
A Fintech’s Guide to Payments
Fintech is a broad term (shortened from financial technology) that encompasses technologies aiming to improve, simplify, or modernize financial services. With the in...
How Hosted Payment Pages Work
When planning to accept payments, integrating and going live quickly can ensure a smooth and swift road to generating revenue. Hosted payment pages can offer merchan...
2024 in Review: Our 4 Areas of Focus
As we rolled into 2024, we focused on 4 key components of our product: speed and performance, 3DS, Account Updater, and managed connections. Here’s how that went.
December 2024 Changelog
December rounded out a productive and successful 2024 for the Basis Theory Platform. Here’s what we released in the last month of the year.
Top Payment Professionals to Follow in 2025
Whatever route you traveled to get into payments, we’re glad you made it here! We’ve curated a list of influencers in the payments industry that speak at events, pub...
November 2024 Changelog
3DS Mobile Now Available In February, we shared the announcement that we now support 3DS transactions for Enterprise customers.
October 2024 Changelog
The last quarter of the year got off to a great start with the release of Token Intents and Bank Verification enrichment. Read on for more information. Token Intents...
What to know About Tokenization
Historically, data security has been treated as featureless and burdensome—but a necessary expense incurred by organizations. Tokenization, however, has reframed the...
PCI Compliance Levels: Know Your Level of PCI Compliance
Understanding the different PCI compliance levels is the first step to reducing the challenges they might bring to your organization.
September 2024 Changelog
Token Create Speed Improvements We’ve significantly improved our tokens' speed for both Token Creations and Reads over the last few months—and customers should have ...
The big ideas in data compliance: An overview of the 12 PCI DSS requirements
It’s hard to argue the role PCI compliance plays in today’s digital economy. Today, the framework introduced in the early 2000s outlines 12 PCI requirements that mer...
August 2024 Changelog
As summer months come to a close and we move into the Autumn months, we have a few helpful updates.
The Anatomy of a Credit Card
Learn the meaning behind the different parts found on a credit card, as well as their function and relevant PCI DSS requirements, with this overview and FAQ.
Omnichannel Tokenization
In today’s personalized e-commerce environment, any friction in the payment process can be the difference between a successful sale and a missed opportunity. Online ...
Summer 2024 Changelog
Summer Changelog In June and July, the team worked on many updates and enhancements to the Basis Theory Platform, from identity access updates, to webhook subscripti...
Why I Joined Basis Theory as CISO
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