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In Profile: Thomas Gillan, CEO of BR-DGE
- Edinburgh-based BR-DGE offers over 400 payment methods through one API integration, providing multiple payment gateways and modular solutions like connectivity, data analytics, routing, and tokenization, etc., to help enterprise level merchants, financial institutions, platforms, and payment providers, break into new markets, scale, and easily adapt to evolving consumer expectations.
- BR-DGE is relentlessly exploring ways to add value to its clients and has earned the trust of significant names in the industry, including PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, etc., because of its interoperability, scalability, modularity, and functionality.
- The company launched its white-label offering in 2024 and won multiple tier one clients in 2024; its modular approach enables businesses to pick and choose services they require without changing their existing tech stacks or relationships with other providers. BR-DGE’s Payment orchestration enables payment providers to win new business without adding friction to checkout processes, saving time and cost.
- BR-DGE CEO, Thomas Gillan, states that the company is not only growing rapidly but also considers the thoughtfulness of scaling alongside the clients. Its white label service fills a real and urgent need in the market, especially for payment providers facing the hindrance of legacy tech.
- BR-DGE’s goal is to make payments as seamless as possible, making it easy for customers while ensuring payment providers get data devoid of fragmentation and patches. Its payment orchestration translates into optimal data analytics, smarter pricing dynamics, localized payment methods among others to deliver value-adding services.
- Thomas Gillan mentions that his entry into the fintech industry was a natural progression from his previous experience in investment, finance, and solving business scaling problems.
- BR-DGE CEO believes that the best thing about working in fintech is the ecosystem's rapid innovation, which also creates challenges. Payment processors must help enterprise merchants tap into local payment methods and information to improve transaction conversions, maintain trustworthiness with their customers, overcome several transaction failings, and reduce fraud.
- BR-DGE plans on scaling its company, expanding into new industry verticals and markets, scaling globally, ramping up its presence in the US, and partnering with more companies to offer even more personalised fintech services.
- Finally, he believes that in the future, AI will have significant implications for payment processing, and there will be more focus on how AI can reduce friction, remove the intermediaries completely, and encourage further financial inclusion through the use of digital wallets.
- BR-DGE recently received Service Organization Control Type 2, (SOC2), which ensures third-party service providers securely store and process client data.
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