Payments Infrastructure and Merchant Acquiring

Founder-CEO who took his own payments company private in a $6.3B deal and is now executing a $2.75B cross-border acquisition — deep operator view on payments consolidation economics.

Runs one of the largest private payments platforms globally and is actively shaping the merchant-acquiring roadmap around stablecoins and agentic commerce.

Founder-CEO of a public $20B+ restaurant payments/POS platform, giving him unmatched insight into vertical SaaS payments economics, SMB merchant acquiring, and embedded fintech competitive dynamics.

As Stax CEO she's driven two payments-infrastructure acquisitions in 14 months, making her a sharp read on embedded-payments M&A, vertical SaaS economics, and processor consolidation.

Former CEO of Elavon and Chase Merchant Services who now sits on Priority Technology and Cantaloupe boards, giving rare cross-vertical merchant acquiring diligence insight.

25-year Visa SVP turned McKinsey adviser and multi-board fintech operator whose merchant-acquiring and network-economics expertise can pressure-test any payments thesis.

Two-time vending-payments founder now consolidating the category via PayRange's 2025 KioSoft acquisition — a firsthand view of unattended-retail payments M&A.

Founder who scaled Shift4 from a teenage side hustle to a public payments leader, but he is now a sitting NASA Administrator with no active Shift4 role.

He leads payments coverage at Houlihan Lokey's FinTech Group, giving him a live read on sponsor appetite and deal structuring across merchant acquiring M&A.

As Morgan Stanley's global fintech IB co-head, Balinov controls deal flow and buyer relationships across payments and financial software M&A.

A fintech/payments-focused Moelis MD whose coverage spans capital markets tech and payments — a well-placed relationship banker for sourcing and market intel in merchant acquiring.

As Piper Sandler's lead payments/fintech banker with a $1B Netspend carve-out and multiple insurtech/fintech exits on his sheet, he's a first call for payments M&A mandates.

Ex-Federal Reserve payments regulator turned Sidley partner who just advised Western Union and Circle on live stablecoin launches — a rare regulator-plus-practitioner read on payments infrastructure deals.

A former FTC enforcer turned top bank/fintech regulatory counsel, he can give a deal team a fast, credible read on CFPB, OCC, and state debanking exposure in a payments target.

Regulatory lawyer with rare payments-industry-side experience (ex-Square/Block in-house counsel) who structures merchant acquiring, payment facilitation, and money transmitter licensing deals — a go-to diligence resource.

A Chambers-ranked fintech/payments regulatory lawyer who has built and led three top-tier fintech practices, giving him a rare cross-firm view of the payments and digital-asset regulatory landscape.

Ex-CLO of a FINRA-member digital-asset broker-dealer turned Taft fintech partner — a rare operator-plus-counsel read on payments and digital-asset licensing risk.

Founding backer and board member across Coinbase, Nubank, Robinhood and Brex — unmatched pattern-recognition on payments and merchant-acquiring economics from seed through exit.

A founding-era Ribbit GP with active board seats across insurtech and payments-adjacent fintech, giving him early visibility into deal flow and pricing dynamics deal teams can't easily get elsewhere.

Capital One co-founder turned fintech super-investor whose QED portfolio (Nubank, Klarna, SoFi) gives unmatched pattern-recognition on payments and underwriting economics.

A Capital One veteran turned fintech kingmaker at QED, Rotman has underwritten the credit-and-payments infrastructure playbook behind Credit Karma, GreenSky, and Flywire.