• ACI Worldwide research found 47% of retail payments professionals rank richer payments performance data as the top orchestration benefit.
• Improved ability to retry declined transactions without customer friction ranked second at 44%, signaling focus on approval recovery.
• Competitive routing to cut processing costs ranked lowest at 19%, despite 60% measuring optimization success mainly by processing cost.
• Board-level visibility remains limited, with 25% calling payments optimization a top-tier strategic priority at board level.
• Over the next 12 months, 61% plan external optimization support, 57% plan orchestration expansion, 30% plan AI tools.

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