
A lawyer turned payments operator, Gass has spent more than three decades following the trail from a customer’s click to a merchant’s cash - and learning what leadership costs when the system fails.
NMI built a large payments business by staying behind the curtain. Its white-label infrastructure lets software companies and payment specialists assemble, brand and monetize the route from merchant sign-up to checkout to payout.
The card reader on the counter is only the visible tip. Verifone is rebuilding its four-decade hardware franchise as a software-connected payments grid for merchants that need every channel, processor and checkout to behave like one system.
Qualpay is a San Mateo-based payments company that combines a merchant account and a payment gateway into a single cloud-based platform. Founded in 2014 by payments-industry veterans, it lets businesses accept card and ACH payments across online, in-person, phone and recurring channels, with tokenization, a customer vault, real-time reconciliation reporting and PCI DSS Level 1 security. In 2022 Synovus Bank took a majority stake to build an embedded finance platform on top of Qualpay's technology.