Bio
Paul is Chair & 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’s Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee Working Group for VRP in Open Banking; UK Payment Systems Regulator Panel, the FCA'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 merchant payments have access to authoritative, independent information on strategic and innovative developments, standards, regulation, and market opportunities. Paul is recognised for his broad perspective, independence and pragmatism in dealing with the increasingly complex changes faced by both merchants and solutions suppliers.