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Paul is Chairman & Founder of merchant payments community, Vendorcom; Evangelist for the World Wide Web Consortium’s Payments Sector in Europe; Mentor at fintech Incubator Level39; former member of the UK Payment Systems Regulator Panel, the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s SCA Monitoring Forum, and the UK Finance SCA PMO Steering Group where he chaired the UK Merchant & Payment Gateway SCA Readiness & Engagement Task Force.

He is passionate about the merchant payments sector and the benefits to be gained by driving innovation through collaboration. His work with Vendorcom ensures that all stakeholders in the merchant payments are connected and have access to authoritative, independent information on strategic and innovative developments, standards, regulation, and market opportunities.

Paul is recognised for his broad perspective on industry matters as well as his independence, authority, and pragmatism in dealing with the increasingly complex changes faced by both merchants and solutions suppliers.

About Vendorcom

Vendorcom is the voice of merchant payments. Its vision is a collaborative world where competitors in technology, standards, and regulation meet merchants’ payment acceptance needs.  It aims to build the most effective community of stakeholders to drive innovation through collaboration in global merchant payments acceptance.

Vendorcom has established a reputation as the definitive forum globally for keeping in touch with what’s what and who’s who in merchant payments. Vendorcom’s merchant members consider it to be the most trusted, independent, strategic, and pragmatic forum to engage with their peers, regulators, standards bodies and vendors of payment solutions.