SPREEDLY
Payments infrastructure has never been more complex, or important. For enterprises operating at scale, across regions and providers, the margin between a transaction that clears and one that doesn’ t can translate into millions in lost revenue.
Yet many businesses still run on rigid, provider-dependent stacks that leave them exposed to outages, locked into underperforming relationships and unable to adapt as issuer behaviour, consumer preferences and the broader ecosystem shift beneath them.
Spreedly has spent more than 15 years building the orchestration layer that sits between enterprises and that complexity. As the company moves into its next chapter – embedding AI-driven intelligence directly into the payments control plane – Chief Technology Officer Mike Rivers discusses how payments modernisation should actually work, why neutrality is a structural advantage and what it means to move from controlling infrastructure to controlling outcomes.
Q. How has Spreedly evolved to address key customer needs since it was formed?
» When Spreedly was founded in the late 2000s, the payments landscape, especially for SaaS and platform businesses, was rigid and providercentric. Companies were growing quickly, but the payment infrastructure was tightly coupled, hard to change and difficult to scale.
100 March 2026