The Full 39 - A World Cup payments stress test
Payments guide
The full 39
We pulled our own transaction data from every day of the World Cup to see what five weeks of nonstop demand does to a payment system.
Sustained demand tests three things at once
Managing one of these for a day is easy. Managing all three for five weeks straight is the actual test.
Volume
The group stage ran matches every day, sometimes four. Volume never came down between them, and it didn't come down on off days either.
Risk
Fraud goes looking for a system that's already busy. When everything looks unusual, nothing does.
Trust
Uptime on one big night can be luck. A system that holds for five weeks disappears into the background—and that's the point.
Inside the guide
A World Cup payments stress test
39 days of our own transaction data from the World Cup, broken down into what it means for volume, risk, and trust.
Day-by-day data from every match of the tournament
What trust looks like when a system holds for five weeks straight
The questions to ask your own payments partner before the next stress test
Learn from the people who lived it
Get insights from the team that built the payment rails and the operators who leaned on them all summer.
Jay Deuskar CTO, PrizePicks
Kari Fisher VP of Customer Success, Aeropay
Geoffrey Scott
Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Aeropay
Yan Makher
Head of Product, Aeropay
Everything the data showed us
Every day of the tournament, broken down by volume, risk, and trust, plus the questions worth asking your own payments partner before the next one.
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