Articles from The Strawhecker Group

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and solutions-focused firm in the payments industry, worked with payments companies to compile the industry’s most comprehensive resource on merchant acquirers. Collectively, the companies highlighted process over 95% of all card payment volume in the U.S.

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and solutions-focused firm serving the payments ecosystem, today announced the recipients of its 2026 Real Transaction Metrics Awards. These awards highlight payment gateways that consistently deliver excellence across performance areas that matter most to merchants and their customers.

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and solutions-focused firm serving the payments ecosystem, today announced the launch of its Executive Dashboard, a significant enhancement to its Acquiring Industry Metrics (AIM) platform. This new experience provides payments organizations with an immediate and intuitive view of portfolio performance, surfacing the trends and shifts that influence revenue.

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and solutions-focused firm in the payments industry, worked with payments companies to compile the industry’s most comprehensive resource on point-of-sale (POS) providers. The 2025 Directory of POS Providers, sponsored by Global Payments, features over 215 companies and 5,500 data points covering key metrics such as geographic reach, market size, payment processing affiliations, POS hosting models, and more.

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and solutions-focused firm in the payments industry, has announced today during Money20/20 USA the launch of PaySights, a one-of-a-kind subscription granting exclusive access to TSG’s suite of solutions.

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and solutions-focused firm in the payments industry, is excited to launch TruMonitor, a new SaaS product and component of the firm’s Global Experience Monitoring (GEM) platform.

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics and solutions-focused firm in the payments industry, is excited to launch its Embedded Pricing Tool, a value-added service for subscribers of its Acquiring Industry Metrics (AIM) platform. The tool enables merchant acquirers to share go-to-market pricing benchmarks with their channel partners, which helps partners ‘right price’ their merchants at the time of boarding.

TSG (The Strawhecker Group), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and solutions-focused firm in the payments industry, has today announced the acquisition of Global NetWatch, a software provider that monitors web, network infrastructure, and card transactions across the world. The addition of Global NetWatch reinforces TSG’s commitment to providing clients with impactful, value-added services.

The Strawhecker Group (TSG), a globally recognized analytics, intelligence, and consulting firm in the payments industry, has today formed a strategic alliance with Pan-European Fintech & Payments Advisory Network (TFPA), a network of senior executives focused on payments, fintech, and banking, to expand its global reach. Headquartered on opposite sides of the Atlantic, the firms’ collaboration will better meet their clients’ needs.