Derren Powell
Payments Reviewer · Founder, Finterra
Derren Powell reviews MerchantHQ's payments content. He is a payments and fintech specialist with more than 25 years in financial services, and spent over seven years at Mastercard, most recently as Vice President, Business Development, Merchants, working on the merchant and acquiring side of the network.
What Derren reviews on MerchantHQ
The payments money pages: acquirer comparisons, fee guides, high-risk merchant account coverage and card machine reviews. His career covers exactly this ground, from the acquiring side of the Mastercard network to hands-on card issuing at Transact Payments, a European e-money institution and BIN sponsor, with earlier years at Citi and more than a decade at HSBC. He now runs Finterra, an independent payments and fintech advisory.
Editorial relationship
Derren provides independent reviews of MerchantHQ's payments content. He is not an employee of MerchantHQ, and past employers appear as career history only, never as endorsement. The MerchantHQ editorial team, Adam Parker (author) and Oliver Mackman (reviewer), retains control of the final content, per our editorial policy.
Verified profiles
Full professional profile, career record and media appearances: muswellrose.com/expert-voices/derren-powell/.