Experts|Ace is an independent payment consultancy that provides insights across the payments ecosystem through advisory and consultancy services. It connects businesses to industry experts through phone or in-person consultations to drive insights and knowledge exchange. Experts|Ace consultants also work as an extended resource on payment projects, providing expertise in areas like market assessments, technology reviews, and supplier selection from acquiring, issuing, and other payment perspectives. The company aims to promote a payments expert economy through flexible, short-term or long-term consultative support.
2. Background
Data is sourced, Knowledge is acquired. And Value is only defined by the quality of
the decisions resulting from the acquired Insights’’
Defining a payment strategy, auditing a payment
infrastructure or assessing new payments solutions or
players can be quite a daunting process. Yet making and
accepting payments is at the core of every business. It
impacts the cash flow, the profitability, the budgeting, the
business operations, the front-end user experiences and
the behind-the-scenes processes that quite too often rely
on incredibly archaic or legacy systems.
As a result of technological, regulatory and competitive
developments across the payments ecosystems, business
face an increasing number of challenges to define and
deploy the best strategies This is precisely where
Experts|Ace can help.
3. About Us
''Bringing in punctual experts to support new initiatives will accelerate the business thought process and generate valuable input in a timely manner, allowing businesses to
make better informed decision.''
Experts|Ace is an independent Pan European payment consultancy that deliver insights across
the whole payments ecosystem. All of our consultants have an in-country payment background
and share experiences across the acquiring, issuing, banking, fintech, gateways and schemes
industry.
4. About Us
Superior knowledge in all payments matters, delivered by industry veterans, business leaders, experienced professionals across the globe through puntual telephone,
panels or in person consultations.
Our business model is two-folds:
• Advisory – We connect businesses directly to superior sources
of information like industry veterans, business leaders,
experienced professionals across business functions to drive
valuable insights and rich knowledge exchange from the
interactions. The advices are punctual and facilitated through
phone, in person consultations panels, forums, web events or
surveys.
• Consultancy – We offer project led and on-demand access to
our team of consultants, who work as an extended pool of
resources to your company. The consultants will typically work
closely with the company internal teams and help with market
assessments, technology reviews, payment audits, supplier
selection and bring a 360 view from an acquiring, issuing,
schemes and gateway perspectives.
In simple terms, we are promoting a Payments Experts Economy
through consultative or advisory services.
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5. Why us
• Payments Experts, with direct industry and on the field
experience
• Pan European Focus, offering a wider industry
perspective
• Organically grown network of trusted advisors, built from
first hand industry experience, referrals or custom build
on demand
• Flexible approach with short them punctual access to
payments experts or longer term project led resources.
• Current and relevant – payment is in our DNA
• Resources available across the global supporting projects
round the clocks and or weekend where needed
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Because we are all payments practitioners we have accurate understanding of our clients
projects, which results in relevant vetting processes and superior quality of knowledge
shared through the consultations.
6. Our Services
Behind Experts|Ace platform sits a team of business
consultants with years of combined experience in the end
to end process of defining and deploying international
payments strategies.
The business we serve are as varied as established
corporates that have punctual or long term challenges on
projects to entrepreneurs that would benefit from on-
demand expertise to drive a strategic project forward
without the usual, cost, resources constraint, and minimum
commitment driven by permanent/temporary recruitment.
• We facilitate interviews with E|A experts
• We conduct surveys
• We organise webinars/web events.
• We offer consultancy services by supporting corporates
across markets, industries, and business functions
through the management of their payments projects.
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7. Example of work
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• CORPORATES
Experts|Ace work with corporate businesses to audit their payments infrastructure, to manage their RFIs/RFPs
programmes or to help them strategise with strong data and market insights.
• MARKET RESEARCH
Experts|Ace provide analysts and research consultants with unbiased intel on brands, industry or corporates. Given
the complexity of the payments landscape, the research firms find particularly valuable our commissioned reports.
• INVESTORS
Experts|Ace work with the investment community across all stages of the deal cycle by providing valuable profiling
data and industries insights into M&A projects.
• PAYMENTS BUSINESS
Businesses such as banks, PSPs, acquirers or issuers leverage Experts|Ace advisory services to strengthen their
value proposition or for thoughts provoking purpose.
• LAW FIRMS
Experts|Ace connects legal counsels with subject matters experts to support any case specific requirements.
Whether the purpose is educational, exploratory or for litigation purpose for pre and post case management.
• TRAINING
Experts|Ace are privileged to work with payments providers, payments suppliers and corporates across the
payments ecosystem and therefore are well placed to deliver tailored training programmes with fresh ideas and
latest industry trends.
8. Miranda Carter +44 +44 20 7097 5968 | +44 74 4954 2108 TheTeam@experts-Ace.com www.Experts-Ace.com