Payments & Cards Strategy Advisory
Thirty-five years building card businesses that scale through crisis, not only through growth.
Jayanath Anton Dias advises banks, schemes, regulators and fintechs across Sri Lanka, East Africa and the Gulf on issuing, acquiring, digital payments — and the agentic AI now reshaping how payments operations run.
Sri Lanka·East Africa·The Gulf·Visa · Mastercard · UnionPay · JCB
What I Advise On
Strategy, acceptance, technology and the rooms where programs get funded.
Strategy & Roadmaps
Multi-year payments and cards strategy, portfolio reviews and customer value proposition redesign for issuers and acquirers.
View services →Acceptance & Acquiring
Merchant acceptance strategy across POS, MPOS, QR and IPG — built for scale, uptime and margin.
View services →AI & Stakeholder Advisory
Agentic AI adoption in payments operations, plus scheme, regulator and government ministry negotiation.
View services →“A trusted advisor equally comfortable scoping the strategy and driving the implementation that delivers measurable, demonstrated business impact.”Executive Profile