Payment consulting
From the first market question to an operating payments business: strategy, business cases, card programs, regulation and vendor selection.
Market insight, with practical delivery
Since 1996, Run Ventures has worked with banks, processors, vendors, emerging PSPs and the investment community. Payments in Europe are changing quickly: instant and account-to-account rails, tokenised cards, open banking and PSD3/PSR. Our services can be drawn on individually or in combination, depending on where a client sits in their journey.
Strategy & market entry
Run Ventures advises banks, processors, PSPs and investors on where and how to compete, sizing markets, stress-testing business models and sequencing a realistic go-to-market roadmap.
Business case & due‑diligence support
We build and stress-test the financial models, market benchmarking and due-diligence reports that boards and investors rely on before committing capital to a payments opportunity.
Card acquiring & issuing program design
We design card acquiring and issuing programs — scheme membership, program economics, risk and fraud controls, and the operating model needed to run at scale.
PSD2/PSD3 & regulatory advisory
Run Ventures guides banks, PSPs and e-money institutions through PSD2 requirements and the proposed PSD3/PSR changes — SCA, open banking, licensing and compliance — with a clear, sequenced plan, not a checklist.
Vendor & processor RFP selection
We run structured RFPs for core platforms, processors and fraud engines — defining requirements, chairing vendor evaluations, and negotiating contracts that hold vendors to what they promised.
Our vendor and business-case work is underpinned by the Research House
How we work
Every engagement starts with the decision it needs to support, and ends with something your teams can act on.
Frame the question
Agree the decision to be made, the constraints and what a good answer looks like, before any modelling starts.
Evidence
Market sizing, benchmarking and regulatory analysis, drawing on our Research House comparisons and first-hand delivery experience.
Decide
A business case, shortlist or selection your board and procurement teams can stand behind, with a documented audit trail.
Hand over
A roadmap and contract terms that carry into delivery, with our consultants alongside your teams where needed.
Talk to a payments consultant
Whichever stage you're at (market entry, vendor selection, regulatory readiness or a card program build), our consultants can walk through your specific situation.