The Maturation of Payment Orchestration: BR-DGE at MPE 2026
Broadcasting live from the Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE) event in Berlin 2026, The Payments Power 50 podcast recently welcomed BR-DGE CRO Jacob Spencer to the microphone. Hosted by Jason Williams, the conversation explored how orchestration has matured from a conceptual promise into practical delivery, covering the importance of market specialisation, the central role of data, and how BR-DGE is approaching purposeful growth throughout the rest of the year.
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Moving Beyond the Buzzword
Payment orchestration has moved well past the stage of being an exciting idea in search of a definition. With merchants demanding an always on and cost effective payment stack, Jacob shared three themes reflecting where the market is now and where BR-DGE is focused:
- Finding the right groove: The orchestration market has matured through specialisation. Where providers once tried to serve every merchant type globally, the strongest players have developed genuine expertise in specific verticals and geographies. BR-DGE has built its strategy around knowing exactly which merchants it can serve well, committing to depth and targeted value rather than going too broad.
- Turning insight into action: Data is not just a reporting layer; it is the absolute foundation of how the platform operates. Acceptance rates and failure patterns inform what is working, but orchestration serves as the action layer. As long as you are driven by the right data, orchestration is the mechanism that fixes problems in practice to deliver better outcomes.
- Scaling with purpose in 2026: BR-DGE enters the year focused on building volume with its existing merchant base while preparing to expand into one or potentially two new international markets. Rather than chasing geographic breadth for its own sake, the priority is entering markets where the technology can deliver real, tangible value to the right merchants from day one.
“ Orchestration is effectively the action layer. As long as you are driven by the right data, you can take action and then give a better performance metric or better outcome for that merchant. ”
- Jacob Spencer, CRO, BR-DGE
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