Introducing the Payment Optimization Platform: Driving Better Authorization Performance | Presented by Mastercard

Summary

Improving authorization performance is essential for merchants looking to reduce avoidable declines, recover lost revenue, and deliver better payment experiences. Mastercard's Payment Optimization Platform (POP) combines network-powered insights and optimization capabilities to help merchants improve approval rates and increase payment success.

In this session, Mastercard will provide an overview of its Payment Alerts solution, including progress to date and how merchants are using actionable insights to identify and recover recurring payment and merchant-initiated financial declines. Attendees will also get an introduction to Adaptive Auth, an upcoming capability that leverages Mastercard network intelligence and AI-driven models to optimize authorization messages and help merchants proactively address avoidable declines.

What You'll Learn

• Understand how Payment Alerts helps merchants identify and recover recurring payment and merchant-initiated financial declines.
• Explore the progress, adoption, and value delivered through Mastercard's Payment Alerts solution.
• Discover how Adaptive Auth uses network intelligence and AI-driven models to optimize authorization messages.
• Identify opportunities to reduce avoidable declines, improve approval rates, and increase payment success.

Speakers

Snigdha, Global Product Lead, Adaptive Authorization
Mastercard

Swarnva Banerjee, Vice President, Product Management, North America
Mastercard

Eric Wachs, Global Product Lead, Payment Optimization Platform
Mastercard