Ever sat in a partnership call, nodding along while someone says "we'll sort it on the issuer side, IC++ pricing, network tokens from day one"? You're not alone. Payments speaks its own language, and most of it is three letters long. Consider this your phrasebook. Every term you'll hear in the room, decoded in one line, so next time you're the one doing the explaining. The players: who's who in a card payment A single tap of a card touches five or six companies. These are the
