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The go-to payments advisors for leading retailers around the globe.

CMSPI is the advisory firm that finance, payments and fraud teams turn to when they want to boost performance, navigate the market, and grow their businesses. Our payments experts use proprietary technologies to equip clients with data-driven insights to achieve best-in-market results through more legitimate transactions, with less fraud, all at a market leading cost.

Our Story

In 2011, after a career advising banks and merchants on improving payments, Brendan Doyle, Founder & CEO, set out to build a business that would change the global retail payments landscape for the better. The result is CMSPI; using a unique combination of knowledge, data and technology to improve the productivity of payments. This means a better outcome for merchants, payments companies and, ultimately, consumers.

Since then, CMSPI has become the go-to advisory firm for leading merchants across the globe, looking to supercharge their payments arrangements. In 2021, Inflexion, a global private equity firm, invested in our vision, helping to fuel our growth and develop new technologies that will drive future improvements in payments productivity.

Prashani Samaraweera

Brendan Doyle

CEO

We want to create a win-win-win for payments firms, retailers, and their customers. Our mission is all about making payments more productive and therefore – most importantly - helping our clients be successful and grow their businesses.

Our Leadership Team

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John Kerr

Chairman of the Board
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Brendan Doyle

CEO
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Elley Frost

President
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Richard Kyne

SVP, Global Consultancy
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Karolina Tallar

Global CFO
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Beth Ward

Chief People Success Officer
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Alistair Matthewson

SVP, Global Delivery
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Alex Ellwood

SVP, Marketing & Insights
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George Willis

SVP, Global Business Development
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Liz Garner Divelbiss

SVP, Head of Strategic Partnerships
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Sam Appleby

SVP, Business Development Director

Our Latest Insights

  • Events

International Payments Policy eSummit

Join us for CMSPI's first global regulatory eSummit, hosted in collaboration with The Startup Coalition. This event will bring together merchants, regulators, trade associations, and payment innovators from around the world to discuss the future of payments regulation.

  • Publications

A Review of Instant Payment Systems Across Asia Pacific

In today's fast-paced digital environment, instant payments have the ability to improve the customer experience, reduce payment processing costs, drive sales, and generate a competitive edge for merchants. However, the fate of these systems depends on the work of stakeholders globally.

  • Blogs

The Truth Behind Scheme Fees: Evidence from the Payment Systems Regulator’s New Working Paper

On June 30th, the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator published a working paper on recent changes to card scheme and processing fees. This latest phase of their market review comes as merchants around the world call for action on rising card fees, and its findings could have implications for regulators globally.