PARTNER INSIGHTS

What we're seeing
in high-risk payments

Worthy processes payments for the verticals other processors avoid. That position gives us a perspective on fraud patterns, regulatory shifts, and merchant economics that the big consumer-checkout players don't have. We publish what we see: benchmarks, post-mortems, partner-authored deep dives, and the occasional honest take.

  • 186 articles
  • 14 benchmark reports
  • Weekly publishing cadence

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Not vendor blogs. Reports your operators will actually share

Worthy Insights is published by the Worthy risk and product teams plus our top partner contributors. Every piece is grounded in actual data: aggregate trends from the Worthy network, partner research, or original interviews with operators in the field. No buzzword-soup, no listicles.

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Three pieces from the last 30 days, picked because operators in our partner network actually shared them. The full archive lives at the bottom of this page; these are the ones we think you'll keep open in a tab.

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Fraud & risk trends

Pattern shifts, signal quality, and what's working in category-specific risk policy.

42 pieces

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Payments strategy

Acceptance optimization, routing strategy, fee composition, and unit economics for operators.

38 pieces

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Merchant playbooks

Underwriting hard-to-place merchants, documentation strategies, and what works at the processor level.

42 pieces

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Compliance & policy

PCI DSS, KYC, KYB, sanctions, payment-network rules, and how regulatory shifts hit operators.

29 pieces

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Industry benchmarks

Quarterly reports on auth rates, decline reasons, dispute rates, and recovery by vertical and region.

14 REPORTS

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Operator interviews

Conversations with payments leaders, fraud heads, and finance teams at high-risk merchants.

29 INTERVIEWS

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Media LibraryWEBINARS & REPORTS

Longer formats, same source data

Live webinars cover topics our team is actively researching. Benchmark reports give you the year-over-year data behind the trends. Both are free, both keep their archives current, and both are linked from the matching topic page.

UPCOMING WEBINAR
JUN 1811:00 ET

Card-testing defense for high-risk merchants: what works in 2026

Walk through the card-testing patterns Worthy has seen since January, the rule-set changes that moved the needle, and the operator playbook for the next quarter.

Jeremiah WorthyUS market expansion · Worthy
Lara ReyesHead of risk · Prime Prop Trading
LATEST REPORT
Q2 2026

Worthy High-Risk Payments Benchmark · Q2 2026

62 pages of aggregated data across 340 partner merchants. Authorization rates, decline reasons, dispute rates, recovery rates, fraud signal performance, and 8 deep-dive sections.

DATA POINTS12.4M
VERTICALS14
MERCHANTS COVERED340
FORMATPDF · 62 PAGES

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186 articles, 14 benchmark reports, 22 webinar recordings, 29 operator interviews. All free, all searchable, all kept current. Talk to sales about syndication rights, paid private research, or co-authoring a piece with the Worthy team.