Payments Industry Embraces Digital Data And AI

Dean M. Leavitt, founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions, writes in the PYMNTS eBook “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off” that 2025 saw strong demand for digital payments, actionable data and flexible interoperable platforms. He says the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digitization and the rise of ChatGPT-era AI broadened automation, urging firms to adopt low-friction integrations for data-driven, AI-powered payments.