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SMARTER PAYMENTS INTELLIGENCE
As the world’s leading payments consultancy, we work with hundreds of Global 500 merchants, saving them millions every year. We collaborate with you and your partners to harness the power of data in order to maximize payments supply chain performance, all with the goal of increasing the profitability of every transaction.
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Latest Insights & Events
Unwrapping Card Fees This Holiday Season
Are The New Generation of BINs Affecting Your Transaction Success?
New-generation BINs from fintech and digital-first issuers are influencing transaction success rates. Learn how shifting BIN profiles affect approvals, routing, and merchant optimization strategies.
Maximizing Routing Optionality: Four Factors Every Debit Routing Strategy Must Address
Debit routing is a powerful tool for merchants to optimize payments performance and unlock significant savings. However, there’s no universal strategy for achieving optimal routing outcomes – it requires a tailored approach and regular monitoring of market shifts that may reduce savings. This article explores four of the most impactful erosion factors limiting merchant routing options.
Client Connect 2025: Takeaways from Connecting the World’s Largest Merchants
CMSPI’s second annual Client Connect conference provided two days of high-impact insights focused on one thing: connecting the dots across the merchant payments landscape. From macroeconomic trends and data challenges to innovations like PINless routing and agentic commerce, the event emphasized the power of collaboration, unified data, and policy for merchants.
“In the first 12 months of our engagement with CMSPI, we’ve worked together to generate an improvement in our e-commerce approval rates across markets. CMSPI’s ability to identify new opportunities in our data using their technology and implement solutions by working directly with our suppliers and issuing banks, was the key driver behind these improvements. We continue to collaborate with CMSPI to support our ambitious online growth strategy.”
“CMSPI operated as an extension of Victoria’s Secret’s payments team, providing expertise and peace of mind in our payment arrangements. By leading negotiations on our behalf, CMSPI enabled Victoria’s Secret to significantly improve our debit routing incentives, driving high six-figure annual savings while maintaining our key payment strategy for stores.”
“Spirit Airlines is a fast-growing organization and it’s highly important to us that our payments arrangements are optimized and future-proofed. I can honestly say that after going through a full CMSPI-managed RFP process, we have the peace of mind that our new arrangements are market-leading and dynamically set to support our rapid expansion.”