Vault
A secure store of tokenized payment credentials managed by a gateway or PSP.
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Tokenization
Replacing sensitive credentials with cryptographic surrogates.
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Acquiring, gateway, vault, and the modern merchant stack.
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Digital Wallet
A software application that stores tokenized payment credentials and authorizes transactions on behalf of the user.
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Gateway
A merchant-side service that captures, tokenizes, and routes payment data to acquirers and PSPs.
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Pay-by-Bank
A payment flow in which funds move directly from the payer's bank account to the merchant's, often via open banking rails.
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A practitioner framework for deciding whether to adopt orchestration - and which platform.