Cross border payments advisory
Grow and Scale your business profitably
The advice and experience you need for the results you want
Who are our clients?
We work with Fintechs, Banks, Neo Banks and Market Infrastructures looking to grow and scale their Cross Border Payments businesses.
How can we help you?
You’re on an exciting journey to grow and scale your cross border payments business but you’ve hit a brick wall. Perhaps you need to understand more about how the payment industry works or what your customer’s need. It could be that your sales need a boost or you’re not generating the growth you want.
Getting help from an expert who has both the business acumen and domain knowledge in payments could be the difference between success or failure. We can give you practical advice and more importantly solutions that you can implement. In today’s tough environment where investors and stakeholders are focusing on fundamentals – we can guide you to create a business that generates sustained profitability. We’ll help you overcome the challenge of understanding your client’s business and how your solution could fit into their frameworks and business processes.
We have over 20 years experience in the payments industry. We’ve worked with some of the world’s largest global financial institutions. We’ve solved problems and scaled up cross border payments businesses. We know how banks operate, how they buy, how they are set up. We know how the market operates. We can help you to identify new opportunities or design and build better products. We can help you to develop a plan to get your services out to customers or banks.
More importantly, we’ll work directly with you to identify the steps you need to take to achievable profitable growth and overcome roadblocks.
About Ventura Consulting
At Ventura Consulting we’re passionate about helping financial services businesses like yours scale and achieve business success. We know the highs of success (and the lows of failure). We have over 20 years experience working with large transaction banking businesses. Business that operate at scale, with multiple partners and sophisticated and demanding clients. We’ve also solved many problems experienced along the way. We’ll provide you with the tools, insights and know-how to grow your business safely, efficiently and profitably.
What is the Process?
Your organisation and needs are unique, but a typical project will consist of one or more of the following steps:
Current State Assessment
Working with you to assess your current state business model or the problem you are facing and your desired outcomes and diagnose the problems or gaps based on our experience or research. We’ll help you to identify what’s working and what needs work or fixing to support the growth of your business.
Prioritise Roadmap & Develop the Plan
We’ll then give you the options, prioritise the work to be done, build the case for change and then develop a roadmap and a plan to execute the tasks required for success.
Payment Partner Review and Selection
We’ll evaluate whether your current payment partners are fit for purpose along with any opportunities to reduce cost or find suitable alternatives.
Expertise
If you find you need help along the way, or in specific areas of the plan, we’ll gladly step in to provide assistance.
What sort of problems could we help you to solve?
We look to tackle the difficult problems that you cannot tackle yourself because they are complex or require specialist expertise, for example
- Your struggling to convert potential prospects to clients or grow at the rate you’d like
- You want help designing products to fit your client’s needs or positioning your services to sell to Banks.
- You need to understand an aspect of the payments business to deliver a 10X solution to market
- You need to find a new cross border payments partner for your business.
- You’re looking for new potential revenue generation or cost reduction opportunities for your business.
- You are worried about a new regulation, a market change or a new competitor and how it could affect your business.
- You want to optimise your payment provider network to improve reach, services or pricing or evaluate a new partner.
What makes us different?
What makes use 10X better than the competitors? It comes down to real experience that goes beyond the tech. We’re not learning about the payments industry through projects or consulting engagements. We’ve had real experience developing and managing products and businesses for financial institutions. We know the pain points and the pitfalls. We know how decisions are made in banks. We know what it’s like to operate at scale – safely, securely and responsibly. We bring that expertise to businesses like yours how and when you need it…
Background
As Founder and Managing Director of Ventura Consulting, Paul has established a company dedicated to providing you with practical insights into key market trends, competitive positioning and bringing you opportunities for your business using proven tactics learned from market leading firms.
Experience
We have helped a number of Financial Institutions to scale their payments businesses and better serve their clients, customers and stakeholders. We also have many years of experience buying and selling to banks. We’ll work closely with you to find the right solution and develop a plan to execute.
Partnership
Our aim is to think boldly, share information freely and seek out pragmatic solutions so that you can accelerate your path to success.
Topics
Talk to us about cross border payments, FX payments and transaction banking.
What’s the process if we want to move ahead or discuss further?
1. Schedule an initial call by clicking on the ‘Let’s talk’ button or link – it’s free and there’s no obligation if you decide not proceed.
2. On the call we’ll ask you to tell us about your priorities and what challenges you are facing meeting them.
3. Based on the information provided we’ll confirm how we can help or take it away and revert back quickly.
4. If you’re happy to proceed, we’ll then follow up with a document including the scope of the work, the proposed costs and estimated timeframes.
5. Standard terms are available for your review at any time.
6. Once approved we’ll agree on a date to start the work.
7. On completion, and confirmation you are completely satisfied with our work, we’ll send you an invoice requesting payment within 14 days.