Eric Kuvykin

Eric Kuvykin Weekly Trend Review: Payments, AI, Technology and Economy for March 29, 2026

Eric Kuvykin weekly trend review for March 23 to March 29, 2026. This archive reading list groups Eric Kuvykin’s articles under payments, AI, technology and business-economy topics. It is a guide to the linked commentary, rather than a comprehensive account of events during the period.

The biggest weekly theme was Eric Kuvykin on Class Action: From Payment Acceptance to Business Operations. The practical takeaway is that merchants should connect payment innovation to operating outcomes: authorization quality, settlement timing, pricing clarity, risk reduction, and customer experience.

Payments Trend

Chargebacks Are an Operations Problem Before They Become a Payments Problem | Eric Kuvykin – Chargebacks commentary dated 2026-03-26.

AI Trend

AI in Merchant Services: Where Automation Can Actually Improve the Payment Workflow — The Merchant Economics Behind the Trend | Eric Kuvykin – AI commentary dated 2026-03-28.

Technology Trend

Payment Tokenization: Why Replacing Card Numbers Changes Fraud and Checkout — Where Technology Helps and Where It Adds Complexity | Eric Kuvykin – Tokenization commentary dated 2026-03-25.
Eric Kuvykin on POS: A FinTech Perspective from Eric Kuvykin – POS commentary dated 2026-03-27.
Embedded Payments: Why Software Companies Want to Own More of the Transaction — How to Think About the Risk – Embedded Finance commentary dated 2026-03-29.

Economy Trend

Credit Card Surcharging: The Difference Between Recovering Cost and Creating Friction | Eric Kuvykin – Surcharging commentary dated 2026-03-23.
Eric Kuvykin on Class Action: From Payment Acceptance to Business Operations – Class Action commentary dated 2026-03-24.

Archive commentary reviewed October 17, 2026; consult linked original sources for their publication dates. Linked articles may have been revised since this archive’s original date.