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Director Payment & Data Solutions

FIS

Member since

29 Jul 2013

Location

Yorkshire

Bio

Director of Payment & Data solutions for FIS EMEA with particular specialism in immediate and emerging payments. PSR Panel member.

Experience

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European cards and payments industry for over a decade in a variety of pre-sales, product and technical roles at FIS, VocaLink and TSYS. Instrumental in getting the FIS Faster Payments gateway accredited in 2016. One of the original team at Zapp, now known as Pay By Bank App.

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We're all familiar with QR codes by now. We’ve seen them printed nonchalantly on Car Magazine adverts, event tickets and glossy posters. Across Europe and the US, we recognise them as a way to access an event or engage with a brand, directing us to ‘find out more’ via their webpages. Fundamentally, we consider QR codes to be convenient access poin...

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