Nicholas Cucci, C.F.E. Named To ETA's Forty Under 40: Gamechangers In Payments Technology
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The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) selected Nicholas Cucci, C.F.E. of Fluid Pay, LLC.for the 2019 Forty Under 40 class, highlighting the gamechangers at the intersection of payments and technology.The roster includes individuals whose actions and leadership are driving the payments technology industry forward and represent payments – from start to FinTech.
The 2019 Forty Under 40 will be featured in the Spring issue of ETA's magazine, Transaction Trends, and honored at TRANSACT, the premier event for payment industry professionals, May 30 – April 2, 2019 in Las Vegas.
ETA solicited nominations from across the payments industry, seeking talented payments executives under 40. Over 100 nominations were submitted from ETA members, TRANSACT exhibitors and industry leaders. The final group was selected by the 2018 Forty Under 40 class and the ETA Awards and Recognition committee based on the nominees' impact on the payments industry and their professional character.
Nick said, “It's a huge honor to be a part of this 2019 class. This is a TEAM award for us at Fluid and cannot be accomplished without an amazing staff working day and night to advance payment technologies together, congrats to all!”
Nicholas is the Co-founder/ Chief Operating Officer of Fluid Pay, LLC. Fluid Pay. was founded in 2017 and is the first fully cloud based payment gateway. Ranked #1 by The Strawhecker Group (GEM Reports) in the following categories: Gateway Availability, Gateway Access, Fastest Transaction Response Time, and Transaction Success Rate. Along with being ranked #1 in all API Integration Categories. Nick spent the first ten years of his career working with Network Merchants Inc. (NMI) and his father Theodore Cucci (former co-founder of NMI).
About ETA
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) is the global trade association representing more than 500 payments and technology companies. ETA members make commerce possible by processing more than $21 trillion in purchases worldwide and deploying payments innovation to merchants and consumers.
About Fluid Pay, LLC.
Fluid Pay™ was founded in 2017 and has been a Level 1 PCI DSS Service Provider since 2019. The platform is a partner-only payment gateway built for ISOs, agent groups, ISVs, and software platforms across the United States.
Fluid Pay does not board merchants directly. Partners do. The platform exists to give those partners the gateway, vault, fraud controls, recurring billing, and terminal support they need to run a payments program on their own brand.
The non-compete is the only model we operate, and it has not changed since 2017.