Transforming Payments from Cost Centers to Revenue Drivers

Corporate payments programs have often been regarded as costly and tedious, but new insights from recent data to be presented at Money 20/20 show otherwise, according to Digital River. On Monday, November 20 at 1 PM EST, MPD CEO Karen Webster will host a live digital discussion with Senior Vice President and General Manager for Digital River Souheil Badran to find out how his company, with its 200 payment methods and $32 billion in annual transactions, can turn payments programs into revenue streams.

Corporate payments programs have often been regarded as costly and tedious, but new insights from recent data to be presented at Money 20/20 show otherwise, according to Digital River. On Monday, November 17 at 1 PM EST, MPD CEO Karen Webster will host a live digital discussion with Group Vice President Payment Products at Digital River Eric Christensen to find out how the company, with its 200 payment methods and $32 billion in annual transactions, aims to turn payments programs into revenue streams.

 

In this digital discussion, you will learn:

• How key data insights on commerce, payments and marketing can lead to increased corporate revenue
• Case studies on companies’ global expansion, top players in the payments mix, and automated routing and its effect on merchant revenue
• Benchmark statistics on authorization rates by industry, the payment method mix and AOV, and successful international growth plans

 

 

 

 


 

DIGITAL DISCUSSION PRESENTER

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Eric Christensen
Group Vice President Payment Products, Digital River

Eric Christensen is group vice president of payment products at Digital River. Digital River processes more than $30 billion in payment transactions on an annual basis. In this role, Eric is responsible for anticipating what’s next in the payments industry. He focuses on partner selection, contract negotiations, partner relationship management and compliance with card association rules, as well as execution and ongoing support of the company’s payments implementations. With over 15 years of payments experience, Eric has seen every aspect of the payments lifecycle including accounting, treasury, vendor management, card processing and alternative payment methods. Currently, Eric is an active board member of the Direct Response Forum. Eric is a graduate of The University of Minnesota – Duluth with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.

 

DIGITAL DISCUSSION HOST

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Karen Webster
CEO, Market Platform Dynamics

Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on payments, commerce and retail innovation and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in those sectors. As CEO of Market Platform Dynamics, she works extensively with the most innovative players in the payments, financial services, mobile, retail, B2B, digital media and technology sectors to help them maximize the value of their platform assets, design disruptive new business models and ignite and monetize new innovation. Karen also serves as a member of the advisory board for several emerging companies.