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Industry-Specific Payment Solutions

Industry-specific payment solutions are essential for high-risk verticals like gambling, crypto, dating, and Forex — where one-size-fits-all payment infrastructure simply doesn’t work.

In this category, you’ll find payment solutions for high-risk industries and actionable insights on selecting and managing providers. Whether you’re launching an iGaming platform or refining chargeback strategies for a dating app, our content highlights vertical-specific PSP strategies and the best PSPs for niche businesses.

⚙️ Featuring subcategories like iGaming, Forex, Adult, Travel, Crypto & more.

iGaming Payment Gateway: MSB/EMI/PSP + Orchestration for Routing, Cascading and Multi-PSP Control

Illustration with a simplified world map, gateway hub, and payment flows showing cascading across multiple PSP nodes, representing iGaming multi-geo orchestration.
Consulting and Support Services, iGaming Payment Insights, Online Payment Integration /

An iGaming payment gateway strategy often fails when it becomes “PSP sprawl”: too many dashboards, fragmented risk rules, inconsistent retries, and limited visibility across geographies. Payment orchestration solves this by putting routing, cascading, limits, and unified reporting under one control layer. For enterprise iGaming, the key is not adding yet another provider; it’s building a governance model that can measure performance, switch traffic quickly, and preserve audit trail across partners and payment methods. In the EU, authorization and registration expectations under PSD2 and related EBA guidance influence how payment institutions should present their controls and processes.

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From Agent to Owner: How to Buy a Canadian MSB and Own Your Tech Stack

Illustration showing an agent icon transforming into a control dashboard connected to a gateway hub and multiple PSPs, representing the move from commissions to orchestration when buys Canadian MSB.
Consulting and Support Services, iGaming Payment Insights, Online Payment Integration /

The traditional high-risk merchant account referral model has a glass ceiling. As an agent or ISO, you can introduce high-quality merchants to processors all day, but you remain at the mercy of the “upstream” provider. You cannot systematically control routing, partner performance, or the cascading logic that determines your approval rates. To break this cycle, the most strategic move for scaling an ISO business in 2026 is to move toward owning your payment stack for ISOs. By choosing to buy a Canadian MSB (Money Services Business) or other licensed entity (EMI/PSP) and pairing it with a proprietary gateway, you transition from a simple middleman to a full-scale platform owner. This guide serves as your ISO to PayFac transition guide, showing you exactly how to reclaim your margins and operational independence.

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Buy/Sell MSB or EMI/PSP with Payment Gateway as Resellable Payment Orchestration Stack

Illustration showing a license document connected to a payment gateway hub with multiple PSP/APM nodes, representing buy/sell MSB/EMI/PSP deal.
Consulting and Support Services, iGaming Payment Insights, Online Payment Integration /

A high-risk payment gateway can turn an MSB or licensed EMI/PSP transaction from a “license-only handover” into a scalable, resellable payments business. Buyers don’t just want a legal wrapper—they want a working operating engine: routing, cascading, reporting, logs, and a clear onboarding workflow that can survive audits and partner due diligence. This matters across three groups: (1) MSB/EMI sellers and resellers who want higher liquidity and valuation, (2) agents and ISOs moving beyond commission-only models into payment orchestration or Merchant of Record, and (3) enterprise iGaming operators managing many PSPs/APMs across multiple geographies. In short: the gateway is the product layer you can monetize, improve, and eventually sell as a complete business.

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Telegram Payments in iGaming: How a €300K Case Scaled Successfully

Telegram payments flowchart showing cards, crypto, and APMs processed through a Telegram bot to the merchant.
iGaming Payment Insights, Merchant Payment Solutions /

Telegram payments are becoming a critical growth driver for iGaming merchants. With over 900 million monthly users worldwide [Statista], Telegram has evolved from a simple messenger into a powerful ecosystem for commerce, payments, and even regulated industries like iGaming. Recently, a European iGaming merchant approached WiseAlt with a challenge. Their project was running entirely in Telegram, generating more than €300,000 per month in deposits, but payment acceptance was unstable.

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Betting Payment Methods that Increase Conversions in iGaming

Infographic of modern betting payment methods in iGaming including crypto, PIX, mobile wallets, and cards.
iGaming Payment Insights, Merchant Payment Solutions /

In the high-stakes world of iGaming, user experience at checkout can make or break conversion rates. Frictionless deposits, local options, and mobile-native flows are no longer optional — they are essential. Reports suggest that optimizing betting payment methods can boost deposit conversions by 20–40%, especially in competitive markets like Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia.

To stay ahead, operators must understand evolving iGaming payments, including crypto rails, real-time bank transfers, and emerging wallets. Forex and gambling share similar payment challenges — and many solutions are built to address both.

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