Jordan McKee is research director of the 451 Research Fintech research and consulting practice within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He leads a team of analysts based in North America, Europe and Asia that provide guidance on trends at the intersection of finance and technology. As an analyst, Jordan’s research focuses on digital payments and enterprise payments strategies. Jordan has been an industry analyst for more than a decade, having launched the payments coverage at 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2019) in 2013. Prior to this he has held research and advisory roles at Yankee Group, OnProcess Technology and FM Global. Jordan is listed on the Electronic Transactions Association's Forty Under 40 list and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, TIME, Businessweek and the Financial Times of London. He has also appeared on radio and television interviews with the Associated Press, NPR and CBS. McKee is a regular speaker at client and industry events around the world, delivering keynotes and moderating panels at SXSW, Money20/20, Interop and ETA TRANSACT. Additionally, Jordan is a Forbes fintech contributor and sits on the board of advisors for the Mobile Payments Conference. He holds a bachelor's degree with a concentration in marketing from Bryant University.
Redrawing industry lines, Global Payments and FIS executed multiple deals that could disrupt merchant acquiring and card issuing — the two pillars of the payments processing industry. Today's deals stem from a narrative among legacy players that issuing and acquiring no longer need to reside under the same roof.
Independent service providers were the focal point of this year's TRANSACT, which is organized by the Electronic Transactions Association. Much of the energy at the conference was dedicated to the intersection of payments — and adjacent financial services — with software.
Large merchants using multiple payment processors is not a new dynamic, but macro-level drivers such as globalization and digitization have accelerated the prominence of this trend in recent years. As a result, payment service providers must think strategically about how they will defend and grow their payment volumes in coming years.
The company is repurposing its debit rails as a cornerstone of faster money movement in the US. Visa's debit cards provide a direct and familiar link to consumer and business bank accounts, eliminating friction in onboarding new institutions into an RTP framework and adopting new payment methods.
The merger of IXOPAY and TokenEx represents an attractive combination of enterprise-grade tokenization, vaulting and payment orchestration capabilities. In this report we provide an overview of the vendor and its capabilities.
The company has become one of the key players in the merchant payment-processing sector. The roster of enterprise customers Checkout.com has amassed in recent years now includes over three dozen merchants that each use its technology to process $1 billion-plus annually.
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