In the payments sector, speed and resilience is just as important as innovation. Speed is especially important now that the once off-line contactless transactions, designed for speed, must be authorized online. As businesses continually look into the future for enhancements, there is a risk of overlooking the performance aspect of processing payments. With the recent outages at Visa, Mastercard and acquirers, FreedomPay’s off-line capabilities enable merchants to attain great performance when others in the card processing chain cannot.