Kanan Keeney

Senior Product Manager

Kanan Keeney is a FinTech leader with a decade of end-to-end experience across the payments ecosystem — spanning system testing, consultancy, certifications and product strategy. As Senior Product Manager at NMI, Kanan leads the global roadmap for card-present payment acceptance, shaping innovative solutions that power secure, seamless transactions across physical touchpoints.

His work has been instrumental in advancing Tap to Pay (SoftPOS) technology, next-gen terminal architecture and open-loop transportation systems deployed in major U.S. and U.K. cities. With deep expertise in EMV, contactless and alternative payments, Kanan excels at navigating the complex intersection of hardware, software, regulation and user experience.

Whether he’s forging strategic partnerships, aligning cross-functional teams, or pushing the boundaries of what payment tech can do, Kanan brings a sharp analytical mind and a passion for scalable, impactful solutions.

Articles by Kanan Keeney:

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One Platform to Serve Them All: The Smart POS for Every In-Person Merchant By Kanan Keeney Merchants are increasingly asking for smart point-of-sale (POS) systems because they enable sales away from the counter and are more flexible, familiar and user-friendly than traditional payments hardware. That’s driving rapid growth in the segment, with research indicating that the market for An... Read More

Contactless, Embedded, Effortless: Tap to Pay for SaaS Platforms By Kanan Keeney If your software users take in-person payments, they’ll expect contactless payment acceptance. The question is: how do you offer it to them? The short answer is tap to pay technology. Tap to pay uses a secure app and the near-field communication (NFC) technology built into smartphones to turn t... Read More

Smarter Mobile Payments: Where Tap to Pay Meets Dedicated Hardware By Kanan Keeney The payments space is moving toward elevated convenience, and that includes payments hardware. At the forefront of that shift are mobile solutions that untether payments from the front counter, enabling merchants to sell on the go. Until recently, merchants looking to go mobile had two binary ch... Read More

Offline Payments: An Important Backup When the Connection Drops By Kanan Keeney Accepting payments is one of a merchants’ most critical processes. In today’s digital-first world, connectivity is critical. But, what happens when the internet goes down or businesses need to take payments in rural areas? In this article, we’ll look at an important capability your merchants may... Read More

Top 8 Benefits of Offering Tap to Pay to Your Merchants By Kanan Keeney Contactless payments are table stakes these days. But, dedicated contactless payment terminals are often expensive, bulky, barely portable and difficult to troubleshoot. For small businesses, those headaches have been something they have had to just put up with. But, not anymore! Tap to pay sol... Read More

SoftPOS: The Next Evolution in Convenient Mobile Payment Systems By Kanan Keeney Convenience and affordability are two of the most important factors merchants look for in payment systems. Software point-of-sale (SoftPOS) applications — an emerging mobile payment solution — offer both. Like mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) systems, SoftPOS systems turn any phone or Android tablet ... Read More