Excellence Payments
Innovative consulting to support transformation in digital payments.
Founded in 2023, Excellence Payments is the Excellence Group’s entity dedicated to digital payments. With a team led by Andrea Gnetti and Carlo Liotti, it boasts deep consulting experience in the issuing and acquiring world. It offers growth strategies, offering innovation, operational development, and management of SME and corporate portfolios.
It positions itself as a strategic partner to support clients in a rapidly transforming market, integrating:
- artificial intelligence
- blockchain
- digital-first distribution models
The future of payments is not observed. It is driven
OUR AREAS OF INTERVENTION
We guide the evolution of payment systems with innovative, scalable and tailor-made solutions for an ecosystem in rapid transformation.
Our insights
04 November 2025
SMEs, digital payments and a new “merchants ecosystem”
by Carlo Liotti, Partner at Excellence Payments
Although in recent years, on the topic at hand, the focus has… shifting from pure acceptance to solutions that combine payments with business managem…
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10 June 2025
Payments in Italy: from the dominance of debit cards to the new challenge of Digital Wallets
By Andrea Gnetti, CEO at Excellence Payments
On May 26th, the Bank of Italy published the first of its two annual reports entitled "Payment System", containing data on the use of payment services a…
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18 March 2025
Cryptocurrencies and payments, tests of dialogue
by Carlo Liotti and Davide Oliveri, respectively Partner and Associate Manager in Excellence Payments
"OK, I give up. Klarna and me will embrace crypto. More to Come!" (Sebastian Siemiatkowski,
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