Meet Dan Smith, Founder and CEO of Clearly Financial

Most businesses do not wake up in the morning thinking about "how" they are going to make payments - they simply make payments. Dan’s deep knowledge means he can help every business extract hundreds of thousands of dollars in Working Capital just by tweaking the way they make payments.

Dan’s idea to offer Consulting for Card payments services came after a 20-year career in commercial payments, where he witnessed the enormous benefits and savings available to businesses.

Big banks tended to focus on growing card programs but always hit a wall on supplier and vendor acceptance. Clearly Financial was designed to change all that.

Keen to share the benefits between Buyers and Vendors, Dan formed partnerships with partners,  software providers, and processors to deliver those benefits.

Working at Banks and Networks (Visa, Mastercard, AmEx) meant Dan knew where to focus first by learning Card Issuing, then Acquiring (aka Merchant Accounts) and then learning how to tie them together.

Armed with fresh insights Dan helped Banks (Citi, B of A, JP Morgan) and brought new SaaS partners into the Network to reduce payment delays.