MMGCorporation

SBC Summit 2026 starts today in Lisbon — three days, 35,000+ industry professionals from betting, gaming, and payments.

MMG will be there. If you want to talk payments while we're both around, reach out to set up a time.

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TES Prague is almost here — and since MMG is headquartered in Prague, we're hosting this year, not flying in.

A few practical things worth doing before the show floor gets busy: book your meetings ahead of time, know your own numbers before you walk in, and leave room in the schedule for the city itself. Our CEO and CTO will both be there, happy to grab a coffee.

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The instinct going into Black Friday is to tighten your fraud rules. That instinct is also, by a wide margin, the more expensive mistake.

False declines cost retailers roughly 9x more revenue than the fraud they're meant to prevent — and 41% of shoppers say they'll never come back to a brand after being wrongly declined. We broke down why this happens and what actually works instead.

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Ever wonder what actually happens in the second or two between hitting "Pay Now" and seeing a checkmark?

A card payment crosses five separate institutions — gateway, acquirer, card network, issuing bank, and back — getting fraud-checked and often authenticated along the way. We broke down each stop, and a detail that surprises a lot of people: no money actually moves during that step. It's pure verification.

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Winning a chargeback dispute feels like a win. It's only half the story.

The average merchant wins about 45% of disputes — but winning doesn't remove the dispute from your chargeback ratio. It counts against you the day it's filed, win or lose. We broke down why that changes how representment should actually fit into your strategy.

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MMG is headquartered in Prague — so when TES Affiliate Conferences comes to our home city this September, we're not the ones getting on a plane. Our CEO and CTO will both be there, and happy to grab a coffee with anyone in town for the show.

No pitch required — just good conversation, and maybe a local recommendation or two.

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"Merchant of Record vs. Payment Facilitator" comparisons are everywhere — but most assume both options are actually on the table for your business. For gambling, adult, dating, and C*D merchants, one of them usually isn't.

We broke down why Merchant of Record providers are so selective about high-risk categories, and the decision that actually matters if MoR isn't available to you.

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That "pay in your own currency?" popup at checkout looks like a courtesy for international customers. It's actually a markup — usually 3% to 7% above the real exchange rate, sometimes much more.

Done right, it's a legitimate revenue feature. Done carelessly, it's one of the more specific, well-documented ways a business ends up fighting chargebacks — Visa even has a dedicated chargeback code just for this. We broke down how it works and how to get it right.

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Why does high-risk payments still run on personal connections when the rest of fintech went fully self-serve? It's not nostalgia — it's structural.

High-risk processors literally pay lifetime commissions for a warm introduction alone, because a meaningful share of underwriting decisions in this space can't be scored by an algorithm — they need a human to read the context. We broke down why that's true, and what it actually means heading into conference season.

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One EU age-verification app, 27 different rulebooks. France banned card-based age checks back in 2025. Germany can now order banks to block payments to platforms that don't comply. Spain has its own proposal in the works.

If your business operates across EU markets, "EU-wide compliant" doesn't mean what it sounds like — and it's increasingly a payments issue, not just a legal one.

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