Payments Consulting Network
Taco de Vries - MBA is a Managing Partner at Payments Advisory Group, a business consultancy working with various stakeholders in the payments domain. Taco also holds a position as Managing Partner Netherlands at Payments Consulting Network, focusing on building the PCN business in the Netherlands and across Europe. In addition, Taco works as a Senior Project Manager at Brink's Solutions Nederland, leading projects in business and solution development. With a background in Social Sciences and Business, Taco has a wealth of expertise in the payments industry, demonstrated through roles such as Lead Consultant at Ahold Delhaize and Subject Matter Expert at Shurgard Self Storage.
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Payments Consulting Network
Payments Consulting Network is a team of experienced payments industry consultants based in Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, Africa and Latin America. Each of our team has 10-40 years of payments industry experience, which combined with our geographic presence in local markets and independence, puts us in a unique position to quickly add value to our clients. Areas of industry focus include: merchant acquiring and online payments; ATMs; cards; real-time payments; mobile payments and the infrastructure that supports payments processing. We also operate the Merchant Advisory (merchantadvisory.com) business which supports businesses with optimising payments acceptance, instore and online. Our core client segments for this include: retail, not-for-profits, marketplaces, SaaS, hospitality and tourism. Our full range of services includes: strategy development; market research; business cases; market assessments; benchmarking; payments optimisation reviews; RFP/RFI support; card scheme negotiations; industry round tables; partnership facilitation; technical advisory; compliance, marketing services and training. Our client base includes: tier 1 and tier 2 financial institutions, major retailers, ecommerce marketplaces, global and domestic card schemes, service providers to the payments industry, independent ATM deployers, not-for-profits, industry associations, and international consulting firms.