The Fort Worth Press - Ecrypt Inc. Named Finalist in the 2026 PAY360 Awards for "Best Customer Experience Solution"

AGOURA HILLS, CA / ACCESS Newswire / August 6, 2026 / Ecrypt Inc., a leading provider of integrated payment services and financial technology solutions, is proud to announce it has been chosen as a Finalist in the prestigious 2026 PAY360 Awards, one of the top annual honors in the financial technology and worldwide payments industry. The 2026 Finals Presentation and Awards Ceremony will take place on October 7, 2026 at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London, where Ecrypt is named a Finalist in the "Best Customer Experience Solution" category.

The PAY360 Awards celebrate the best in fintech and payments innovation around the world. Organized by The Payments Association and supported by Mastercard, the ceremony highlights companies that make a positive impact in the financial sector through innovative technologies. This year's awards saw over 350 entries from the finance and payments industry and was the most competitive year in the program's 190-year history, with more than 70 independent judges from organizations such as Mastercard, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest, and AWS who evaluated submissions across 21 categories. The PAY360 Awards 2026 Shortlist is the result.

The PAY360 Award honor reflects the recent launch of ECRYPT 2.0, a major upgrade to the company's payments platform that represents the most significant improvements to date, designed to help customers manage payments more efficiently while simplifying integrations and day-to-day operations. ECRYPT 2.0 features a redesigned user experience, improved checkout capabilities, and optimized backend architecture. In addition, it introduces ECRYPT AI, which includes a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) to enable a scalable multi-agent AI assistant that's embedded directly into the dashboard and provides secure payment AI capabilities to integrated technology partners. Ecrypt also introduces a significantly enhanced hosted payments experience, delivering a modern checkout interface with greater design customization and more flexible deployment options. With these enhancements, businesses can now tailor payment flows to match their brand while maintaining the security and compliance standards required for digital transactions. ECRYPT 2.0 is available immediately to Ecrypt customers and integration partners.

Noted Felix Danciu, Chief Financial Officer of Ecrypt Inc., "We are very proud to be chosen as a PAY360 Awards Finalist this year. As we remain committed to creating technologies and providing innovations that help deliver the very best customer experiences, this honor is a welcomed validation of the impact we're having in today's rapidly evolving digital banking world. At Ecrypt, we believe that payments infrastructure should make complex systems easier to operate. We're delighted to congratulate all our fellow honorees and we look forward to continuing to build the future in payments."

For more information about the 2026 PAY360 Awards and the complete list of finalists, visit https://thepay360awards.com/.

About Ecrypt Inc.
Ecrypt Inc. is a leading payment services provider, offering all-in-one processing services to merchants in the United States. As a registered ISO and FSP, Ecrypt offers merchants a diverse range of payment processing solutions, including a PCI Level 1 payment gateway and cloud terminal hardware (ecrypt.com), proprietary AI-driven fraud prevention and agentic commerce solutions (ecrypt.com/ai), and a patented age-verification software (AgeChecker.net). Founded in 2004, Ecrypt is based in Agoura Hills, CA, and is committed to delivering innovative, secure, and cost-effective payment experiences to merchants and technology partners nationwide.

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