Independent research and standards

To advance fairer, faster, and more transparent payment dispute resolution.

Ways to engage

Engage with the research. Strengthen your capability.

Three ways to work with PDI — stay across the research, test your own dispute capability against an independent benchmark, or take an ongoing seat in the institute’s work.

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Newsletter subscriber

Latest research and analysis, delivered directly. Independent perspective on the issues shaping payment disputes across the ecosystem.

  • Latest published articles
  • Landscape, case study & operational pieces
  • No vendor noise or commercial agenda

By engagement

Capability audit

An independent assessment of how your dispute and chargeback operation performs against the PDI capability framework — with a clear, prioritised set of recommendations you own.

  • Structured assessment against the published PDI framework
  • A senior, judgement-led review — not a checkbox or a data trawl
  • Independent recommendations, with nothing to sell you
  • Findings confidential to your organisation

By invitation · Limited cohort

Founding collaborator

For organisations that want to stay close to PDI’s work over time — and help shape which problems get examined next.

  • The cross-ecosystem synthesis, several times a year
  • Early sight of research and consultation submissions
  • A seat at PDI's invitation-only roundtables, held under the Chatham House Rule
  • A route to put problems on the research agenda

Every engagement deepens the cross-ecosystem evidence base PDI’s public research draws on — always anonymised, aggregated, and attributed to no one.