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Banks have invested heavily in modern payments platforms- real-time rails, ISO 20022 migration, API-driven connectivity, and cloud-native processing engines. Yet as transaction volumes surge and payment methods proliferate, many institutions are discovering that platform modernization alone does not guarantee operational scalability.
The execution gap is widening.
In this webinar, QKS Group analysts examine where payments platforms fail when exposed to scale, why traditional processing architectures struggle under real-time and multi-rail complexity, and what operations leaders must prioritize in 2026 to sustain reliability, resilience, and cost efficiency. Drawing from SPARK Plus buyer intelligence, this session translates market adoption patterns, production incidents, and architectural shifts into clear, actionable guidance for senior payments operations decision-makers.
This session delivers a concise, insight-driven walkthrough of the operational bottlenecks emerging inside scaled payments environments. Attendees will gain clarity on why platforms perform well in pilots but degrade under production volumes, how fragmentation across rails and vendors increases operational risk, and what practical changes payments leaders must make to stabilize execution, control cost, and absorb continuous change in 2026.
Why Payments Platforms Break at Scale
How volume growth, real-time rails, and architectural design limits expose execution weaknesses as platforms move from pilots to production scale.
Where Operational Execution Fails in Production
The operational choke points created by fragmented rails, orchestration gaps, core dependencies, and manual exception growth.
The Hidden Cost of Scaling Payments
How rising repair rates, liquidity stress, SLA degradation, and operational overhead erode the economics of modern payments.
What High-Scale Banks Are Doing Differently
How leading banks redesign execution models, centralize orchestration, and govern platforms based on production performance.
Operational Metrics Payments Leaders Must Track in 2026
The execution KPIs that define scalability, resilience, automation effectiveness, and change readiness across payment operations.
Payments Execution Architecture: What’s Changing
How event-driven processing, intelligent routing, liquidity-aware orchestration, and resilient deployments are reshaping payments platforms.
Analyst Recommendations & Best Practices
Practical guidance on designing, governing, and operating payments platforms for sustained scale, reliability, and regulatory readiness.
This session is designed for senior leaders responsible for payments execution, platform scalability, and operational performance.
Attendees will gain exclusive access to QKS Group’s SPARK Plus buyer intelligence and execution-focused payments research, along with practical insight into where payments platforms fail at scale and the concrete architectural and operational actions required to sustain reliability, control cost, and absorb continuous change in 2026.
