Visa veteran Damien Gough will be responsible for the GPS partnership business and promote the business success of the business in the region. He recently served as the head of card issuer processing and empowerment cooperation business at this digital payment giant
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global Processing Services (GPS), a leading payment issuer processor, today announced the appointment of Damien Gough as the head of Asia Pacific.
Gough has more than 14 years of experience in collaborating with financial technology companies in the region. Previously, he served as the head of Visa Asia Pacific card issuer processing and empowerment cooperation business, responsible for establishing regional and global partnerships with third-party processors and BIN sponsors . During this period, he also initiated a number of sales activities and solutions in conjunction with a number of leading regional financial technology issuers.
Prior to this, Gough served as the head of prepaid products in the Asia-Pacific region at Visa and the head of card issuer processing services in Australia and New Zealand. He worked for the digital payment giant for 9 years.
When discussing this appointment, GPS CEO Joanne Dewar said: "We are very pleased to welcome Damien to the GPS team. He has extensive experience in supporting many large fintech card issuance programs in the Asia-Pacific region, including prepaid and debit cards. It will play a huge role in driving the growth of GPS in the region. Damien has an excellent track record in effectively contacting ecosystem partners in the Asia-Pacific region, including host banks, eKYC providers, fintech investors and various processors In this fastest-growing global financial technology market, these partners are vital to the strength of company partnerships."
With the support of the Fintech Bridges of the British Ministry of International Trade and the Singapore Economic Development Board, GPS has successfully expanded into the Asia-Pacific region in 2019, and has successfully established the first global virtual bank WeLab Bank in Hong Kong. Razer Fintech, the largest O2O digital payment network in Southeast Asia of the global youth bank, delivered the solution.
Commenting on his decision to join GPS, Gough said: “GPS has built a flexible regional support team. Based on a highly flexible platform that supports most of the use cases of card issuance by financial technology companies, it has launched award-winning products and used it to Help customers face challenges in the process of sorting out the complex global and local landscape. The expertise, experience, API breadth and the agility of local support provided by GPS for financial technology companies and digital banks have helped simplify the complicated processes in the past.
"It is a great honor to join GPS and lead and support its rapidly expanding Asia Pacific team to further provide help and empowerment to our customers to deliver leading payment products in this highly diversified, fast-accepting and adopting region of financial technology services We see strong demand from high-growth emerging countries to mature markets, and I am excited about the company’s bright future in this region."
For more information about GPS, please visit: https://www.globalprocessing.com/
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About Global Processing Services (GPS)
Global Processing Services (GPS) is the trusted and proven payment processing partner of today's leading challenger brands (including Revolut, WeLab Bank and Razer Fintech).
GPS was established in 2007. Its highly flexible and configurable platform puts control firmly in the hands of global financial technology companies, digital banks and e-wallets, enabling them to provide cardholders with a wealth of functions.
GPS is certified by MasterCard and Visa to process and manage any credit, debit or prepaid card transactions worldwide, with offices in London, Newcastle, Singapore, Sydney and Dubai. It has the ability to meet the strict standards required by Tier 1 banks, and has been integrated with more than 40 issuing banks, using more than 150 currencies to manage plans for more than 180 customers in 60 countries.