ISSUING
We offer a range of strategic and tactical advice to financial institutions, retailers, travel companies, affinity groups, and other stakeholders. Our experience ranges from market entry to involvement in significant partnership transactions of the past 15 years. Our product coverage includes general-purpose credit cards, co-branded credit cards, private label credit, and more. In addition to North America, we serve continental Europe and South America.
Specific to Prepaid, our team advises clients on product development, distribution strategies, market sizing, business case development, partner selection, and market entry planning. Our clients include successful program managers, financial institutions, retailers, alternative financial services providers, processors, card networks, and service providers. Our experience spans market sectors, value-chain roles, and geographical regions.
With an average tenure of over 17 years, the Senior professionals on our leadership team have experience guiding clients through different economic cycles and market conditions. Our practice was built and is sustained by establishing long-term relationships with a diverse client base.
MERCHANT ACQUIRING
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Our Merchant Acquiring practice area is the most specialized in the industry, with deep expertise in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. We offer a range of merchant acquiring services to bank and non-bank merchant acquirers, transaction processors, payment networks, ISOs, merchants, ISVs, VARs, alternative payment providers, technology providers and private equity firms. Our engagements include comprehensive strategy development and implementation, portfolio and financial diagnostics, risk and compliance assessments, market research, and buy-side and sell-side transaction advisory, covering partnership formations and renewals, target due diligence, and end-to-end support for many of the industry’s largest transactions over the past two decades.
Our Merchant Acquiring Services team draws on a dedicated pool of professionals. Each member of our team has specialized areas of focus within the Merchant Acquiring market so that we provide our clients with the most in-depth knowledge and experience. In particular, we have deep subject matter expertise in all aspects of acquiring strategy, vertical markets and sourcing, acquiring risk, EMV, POS technology and testing, alternative payments, and the M&A market.
MOBILE/ALTERNATIVE PAYMENTS
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Alternative payments are revolutionizing traditional banking, they respond to the specific needs of today’s market, both in terms of user experience and the checkout process.
By providing local demographics with the opportunity to pay with their preferred and most commonly used methods of payment. Moreover, alternative payments offer many benefits for consumers, such as convenience, ease of use, and better accessibility compared to traditional methods. In many cases, alternative payments provide an easier and more efficient way to make payments.
The world of alternative payments refers to everything that falls outside of the traditional payment methods that have been used both for online and in-store purchases, such as the main credit/debit card networks, cash, and checks.
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PAYMENT STRATEGY & INNOVATION
Our Payments Strategy and Innovation practice maintains a deep body of expertise on the issues facing the payments industry and supports clients on a range of strategic, financial, and operational matters. Our clients include successful financial institutions, payment networks, processors, merchants and service providers. We advise clients at both a strategic and tactical level on a range of product and program matters, including debit and prepaid card issuance, ATM deployment, online banking, and emerging payments applications. The diversity of our client base coupled with the longevity of our client relationships allows us to deliver tested and proven insights.
Our Payments Strategy and Innovation practice draws on a pool of professionals with years of experience. Members of our team have played a role in transactions and events that have re-shaped the electronic payments industry.
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