Rodney Farmer Email & Phone Number

Austria

Europe

Protecting the payment ecosystem by devaluing the data!www.bluefin.com

United States

• Elected position chosen by the PCI Council members;
• Representing the interests of the European card payment industry with regard to security;
• Ensuring that the industry retains the trust of cardholders, merchants and other stakeholders by upholding the DSS standards;
• Collaborating with executive leadership of retailers and payment card industry stakeholders to assure the integrity of card payments.

Munich Area, Germany

www.epsm.eu

USA

Realtime Transactions offers payment industry expertise including executive leadership, operational excellence, product development and data security expertise.

Prague, Czechia

Launching the next generation of retail payment services using SEPA Instant Payment, under our new PISP and AISP licenses published Nov 2021. Co-founded ZNPay with colleagues in the merchant acquiring and mobile banking fintech industries to conduct retail payments using SEPA, PSD2, SCT, instant payments between bank accounts. We have now made it through.

Prague, Czechia

Segment leader in payments and real-time banking applications and security. Working with portfolio companies, “Enabling Technologies”, to improve business and operating models through board and program engagement. Deploying next generation financial services.

Budapest

Began as the Supervisory Board Chairman, contributed to organization and growth at the board level. Facilitated the SPA where Borgun acquired 100% of the B-Payment share. As a follow-on to the acquisition (Oct 2018), I led an outstanding team of payment professionals delivering market-leading products, partnership and services to merchants in CEE.

Kansas City, Kansas

Building a market leading consumer finance and credit card issuing business in partnership with Sprint using the superior data analytics and responsible credit management tools of Home Credit.

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

• Responsible for a team of more than 260 payments professionals;
• Consistently delivering double-digit top and bottom line growth;
• Providing outsourced services in seven countries;
• Developed and executed the company’s strategy for payment processing across Europe;

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Russia's largest independent credit reporting bureau;
• Working with the Board and executive management on strategy, budget and corporate development.

Vienna

• Responsible for the development of the holding company level strategy and directives for payment card operations for 15 banks with combined assets of more than $180 billion and 13 million customers.
• Holding-company level responsibility reporting to the Supervisory Board for Ukrainian Processing Centre, UPC.
• Managed search and placement process for the CEO of UPC and mentored the leadership team.
• Led programs to improve efficiency on a regional basis saving more than $2 million per annum, including a path for ongoing consolidation.
• Conducted functional and infrastructure definition processes suited to the corporate requirements to achieve efficiency and scale.

Budapest

• Opened the European office of ARKSYS in 1997;
• Merged operations with Euronet in 1998;
• Led EMEA Business Development -- Account Management and Sales for Euronet Software;
• Led EMEA Business Development -- Sales for Euronet EFT Outsourcing;
• Consistently delivered more than $5 million in contract value per annum.

Dallas

• Represented the FHLB to member banks in Arkansas and Mississippi;
• Promoted the use of FHLB wholesale funding from overnight funds to long-term debt for asset/liability management purposes.

Little Rock, Arkansas

• Started the bank’s Compliance function
• Achieved top ratings from the OCC for regulatory compliance.
• Achieved one of the nations first “1” rating for Community Reinvestment Act compliance.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Banking And Finance

Business Administration And Management, General

MBA Studies