A Specialist’s Guide to Merchant Payments Optimization

The role of a payments leader is more challenging than ever before. The market is highly concentrated, complex, and costly. At a macro level, payments leaders face fee increases, regulatory changes, shifting consumer payment trends, and evolving issuance patterns that shape their strategies. On a micro level—focusing on the specific factors influencing the cost and performance of individual transactions—numerous underlying changes impact each payment, including routing capabilities, data pass-through, supply chain dynamics, and more.

CMSPI’s experts, who specialize in helping advanced payment teams maximize the value of their payments strategies, have organized an intensive afternoon workshop for payments leaders aiming to boost performance and achieve cost reductions.

Section 1: Macro-Level Influences

• Fee increases and regulatory rule changes
• Evolving regulatory landscape
• Shifts in consumer payment trends and issuance patterns

Section 2: Micro-Level Influences

• Optimizing transaction-level costs, including downgrades, FX, data rates, and more
• Supply chain capabilities and their impact on payments
• Advanced debit routing optimization
• Data-driven approaches to supply chain optimization
• Balancing transaction performance metrics, such as approval rates, fraud mitigation, and cost

Ideal for: Payments Leaders, Finance Professionals, and Treasury teams in the retail sector who want to deepen their understanding of payment cost management.