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Practical tactics, not trend talks. Every session covers specific moves an audience can make on Monday: how each one works, what it is worth, how it fails, who owns it, and how it differs by market.

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Signature talks

Payment tactics for margin wars

Flagship keynote, 30-45 minutes. Six specific moves, one at a time: reporting net revenue instead of headline TPV, choosing merchant of record flow by flow, quoting the FX markup corridor by corridor, moving a corridor to local rails, pricing the agent channel, and mapping the licence, scheme and tax exposure that follows a big flow. Each comes with mechanics, metrics, failure modes, owners and the differences across cross-continent campaigns.

PayFac and AI: tactics for sub-merchant margin

Sub-merchant pricing, onboarding and underwriting cost, reserves and residual splits, and where AI already helps. Builds on the Fiserv Forum 2024 PayFac and GenAI panel.

Marketplace payments and risk: payout, reserve and loss tactics

Payout timing and holds by seller risk tier, rolling reserves, and which chargebacks to fight. Builds on hosting the MRC Las Vegas 2024 marketplaces session.

Merchant data and cloud data sharing: finding basis points in your own data

Using direct processor-to-merchant data sharing to see the true cost of each order: scheme and tax lines, FX spread, disputes, refunds and, where agents sell, agent fees in one view, by channel and by corridor. Builds on Snowflake Summit 2025 and Money20/20 USA 2024.

Also available as a closed-door briefing: stablecoin settlement as a cost line for acquirers and merchants, offered only after a conflict check.

Six specific moves, one at a time

Formats

Keynotes, and headline slots at vendor-hosted customer events
Moderating, hosting and firesides
Closed-door executive briefings and board sessions
Half-day and full-day workshops
The Margin Wars Working Sessions: 8-12 peers, one lever, Chatham House rule
Virtual sessions

Past stages

Year	Event	Role	Topic
2025	Snowflake Summit 2025, San Francisco	Keynote co-presenter with Brandy Wood, VP Product, Fiserv	Data integration and zero-copy data migration
2024	Money20/20 USA 2024, Las Vegas	Session speaker with Prabhath Nanisetty, Snowflake	How merchants unlock value through cloud data sharing
2024	Fiserv Forum 2024, Las Vegas	Panelist, with Hersh Mansukhani and others	Future is PayFac and GenAI
2024	MRC Las Vegas 2024	Host; co-host of a merchant cost-optimisation roundtable	Marketplaces on the Rise: Payments and Risk
2025	PayPal merchant events, Sydney and Europe	Host and co-host of sessions and merchant roundtables

Watch

Snowflake Summit 2025, San Francisco: keynote co-presenter with Brandy Wood, VP Product, Fiserv. Zero-copy data integration between processor and merchant.

Money20/20 USA: Data Cloud Now interview with Ryan Green on data and AI in payments.

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