Webinar: Unlock the future of commercial card acceptance, sponsored by Mastercard
Virtual l Tuesday September 16th 2025 l 9 am EDT, 2pm BST, 3pm CEST
The webinar by Economist Impact, CPI in association with Mastercard will reveal the evolving landscape of commercial card acceptance, explore why engaging with acquirers is crucial for your business, how it can drive success, and its impact on the future of payments.
This webinar will answer the following questions :
- Why is now the right time for acquirers to prioritise commercial card acceptance? What’s driving the momentum, and how should acquirers position themselves to benefit from this shift?
- What are the top relationship and operational benefits acquirers can gain by embracing commercial card acceptance?
- Virtual Card Numbers (VCNs) are becoming popular—what are the key use cases acquirers should focus on? How are invoice-based VCNs changing the landscape, and what should acquirers know to stay competitive?
- What are some of the biggest challenges acquirers must solve, and how are leading firms addressing them?
- What practical actions or strategic partnerships should they be considering now?
Why attend?
- Increasing importance for engaging acquirers: Learn about the increasing importance of acquirers in the commercial card acceptance ecosystem and why your involvement is vital for success
- Key benefits for acquirers: Understand the key reasons acquirers should prioritise commercial card acceptance, including the benefits it brings to operations and customer relationships
- Current focus areas: Explore what acquirers currently care about, with an emphasis on invoice-based Virtual Card Numbers (VCN) payments and their significance in the industry
- Addressing upstream pain points: Discover how acquirers are now required to solve upstream pain points of customers and the strategies that can be employed to address these challenges effectively
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and practical knowledge from industry experts.
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Speakers
Lizzie Pine
Executive director, commercial card, product strategy & transformation JPMorgan Chase & CoLizzie leads the Commercial Banking Commercial Card product solutions, serving the Middle Market and corporate clients, from pre-profit startups to $2B-sized corporations. She has spent most of her career in strategy, consulting for Fortune 100 clients to venture-backed startups. She has led teams to define go-to-market strategies, create operating models, and ideate customer-centric offerings, among other functions. She received her MBA from Chicago Booth, and has been selected as one of 30 women future leaders in payments by Money 20/20 in 2021 and for ETA Transact’s Forty under 40 leaders of the payments industry in 2023.
Paul Uher
Managing director, segment executive merchant services – commercial and corporate banking Wells FargoPaul is a managing director and leads the merchant services business that supports the commercial and corporate banking segments for Wells Fargo. He has responsibility for all aspects of the business segment, including financial performance, business development and relationship management.
Paul has been with Wells Fargo since 1998 in a variety of roles in the treasury and merchant services businesses.
Paul has his Master’s in Business Administration from Wake Forest University and Bachelor of business administration from Ohio University. He is also a Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Payments Professional.
Nick White
SVP, commercial acceptance MastercardNick White is a senior fintech executive with over 28 years’ experience leading product, strategy and innovation across global financial institutions and high-growth ventures. As SVP, Acceptance for Corporate Solutions at Mastercard, he is responsible for advancing the company’s approach to B2B acceptance—spanning card and beyond card—helping businesses engage suppliers, streamline payments, and automate reconciliation at scale.
Before joining Mastercard, Nick held senior leadership roles at Fiserv, where he built high-performing cross-functional teams and led innovation across merchant services. He has also held executive roles at Virgin Mobile, where he was a founding team member driving early innovation in mobile services, and at Barclays, where he helped shape some of the UK’s earliest digital banking propositions.
Nick has also brought that experience to fintech scale-ups, including his role as Chief Product Officer at Pollinate, where he led the company’s strategic repositioning for the US market—supporting the transformation of small business banking and modernising merchant services through bank-led platforms.
He is widely regarded as a trusted voice on the future of fintech, digital transformation, embedded payments, and the evolving role of financial institutions in the digital economy.
Arthur Weiner
Founder and principal consultant N Brook Advisors, LLC (Moderator)Arthur Weiner is an accomplished payments industry leader with more than 30 years of successfully bringing products to market for leading global companies, including Citibank, Mastercard, US Bank, Fifth Third Bank and Verisk Financial. Arthur is currently the Owner and Principal Consultant at N Brook Advisors, LLC. His consulting practice focuses on B2B payments assisting clients with product development, Go-to-Market planning and execution, product roadmap development and market research.