Colm Lyons Biography

Colm Lyon is the CEO and Founder of Fire Financial Services (www.paywithfire.com). He was the founder and CEO of Realex Payments up until the time the business was acquired in March 2015 for €115m by Global Payments. Colm remains with the business as a non-executive director.
His latest venture – Fire Financial Services is a regulated Payments Institution offering business and personal payment accounts - branded as PayWithFire it aims to transform banking services by providing payment accounts that are more integrated accessible and safe. PayWithFire has been developed over several years and is led by an experienced payments leadership team.
From 2000 to 2015 Colm led Realex Payments to be one of Europe’s largest online payment gateways – processing in excess of €28B euro per annum in online payments for over 12500 retailers including some of the world’s leading brands – Vodafone Aer Lingus Virgin Atlantic Paddy Power Chain Reaction Cycles AA 32Red notonthehighstreet.com to name a few. Colm is a strong leader and led the business forward over 15 years within a strategic framework that saw an appropriate balance between innovation and operations. At the time of the acquisition Realex Payments employed 170 people had clients in 30 countries and offices in Dublin London and Paris.

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