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In a payments ecosystem that is as complex and ever-changing as it is opaque, understanding the nuances behind the infinite number of payments variables at play - let alone putting those variables in context - is a tremendous challenge. That's where CMSPI comes in.
Leading businesses from around the world chose CMSPI & its expert advisors to help them navigate a complex payments ecosystem. Working as extension of the payments team, CMSPI empowers retailers with data-driven insights, benchmarking and expertise in order to drive best-in-market results.
Our payments advisors are powered by data - our proprietary technology connects data & information from disparate sources to deliver essential insights into your payments supply chain. This helps us analyse down to a transaction level to identify opportunities to reduce your costs and predict outcomes of making changes to your payments arrangements.
CMSPI partners with businesses to help them remove barriers and reduce costs across the entire payments supply chain. We specialize in cutting costs associated with facilitating customer transactions including card processing, buy now pay later (BNPL) options, and alternative payment methods.
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"Merchants are facing upward pressure across all of their supply chains. We partner with leading retailers to help mitigate any cost increases and reduce the overall cost of transacting."
Local market specialists, data insights & sophisticated benchmarking capabilities means CMSPI is able to dig deeper and reach wider, identifying all areas of opportunity to reduce costs.
Working with hundreds of clients every year and analysing billions of transactions - we know payments costs.
We believe that to drive truly optimal payments performance requires a methodology that mixes data science, expertise, and proprietary analytical tools.
A seamless, secure, low-resource onboarding process. Followed by an audit of historical transaction level charges associated with payments.
In parallel to a health-check, CMSPI would use it's sophisticated benchmarking capabilities, analytical tools and expertise to help identify opportunities for optimisation. Following this, we work with your team to prioritise cost reduction initiatives & define a roadmap.
In an ever-changing market, with CMSPI's experts & powerful analytical tools by your side, you can remain in a best-in-market position.
CMSPI helped us get a better understanding of how upcoming regulatory changes in the payments industry were going to affect us. I appreciated the clarity that CMSPI provided and the benchmarking analysis was something I am sure we would have struggled to be able to find elsewhere. Thanks to CMSPI, we now have complete confidence that Boohoo has secured competitive merchant acquiring charges with our provider and that we are fully benefitting from available interchange reductions.
In 2021, European retailers heard the news: Maestro, Mastercard’s pan-European debit brand, will be retired in July 2023.¹ From that date, Mastercard’s new European debit cards will instead be badged with Mastercard Debit, but the network change is already bringing more than merchants bargained for.
Elior, award-winning catering organisation based out of the UK, partnered with CMSPI to build a data-driven payments strategy designed to reduce costs and deliver innovative payment solutions that enhance the customer experience.
For many businesses across the world, network fees are just a jumble of often-unintelligible words that clutter every payments invoice. But those pesky line items are now one of the biggest challenges merchants face; in North America alone, retailers sunk an estimated $12.5bn into network fees last year.
