Advisory Services

Consultancy built around 35 years inside the P&L, not beside it.

Jayanath advises issuers, acquirers, fintechs, schemes and regulators across the full lifecycle of a cards and payments business — from the first strategy review to the negotiation that gets a program funded. Engagements run from a focused diagnostic to an embedded multi-year mandate.

Strategy & Portfolio

Payments & Cards Strategy Review

Multi-year roadmap design across issuing, acquiring and digital payments.

Portfolio & Product–Market Fit Assessment

Where the portfolio is winning, where it is leaking, and what to fix first.

CVP Design & Refresh

Repositioning value propositions for premium, mass and underserved segments.

Acceptance & Operations

Merchant Acceptance Strategy

POS, MPOS, QR and IPG expansion built for scale, uptime and margin.

Digital Wallet & Mobile Payments

Assessment and launch support for wallet and mobile-payment propositions.

Process Re-engineering

Operational redesign for speed-to-market, accountability and service levels.

Technology & AI

Generative & Agentic AI Adoption

Practical AI deployment in payments operations — scoped, piloted and scaled.

Data-Driven Decisioning

Building the analytics capability behind portfolio and risk decisions.

Stakeholder & Governance

Scheme Negotiation & Management

Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay and JCB program negotiation and relationship management.

Executive, Regulator & Government Engagement

Building and selling the case to boards, central banks and ministries.

Risk & Compliance Governance

Credit, fraud and regulatory governance frameworks for cards portfolios.

Engagement Models

Three ways to work together.

Model

Strategic Diagnostic

A focused 2–4 week review of your cards or payments business, ending in clear findings and a prioritised roadmap.

Model

Advisory Retainer

Ongoing senior counsel for leadership teams — board papers, scheme negotiations, regulator engagement, AI adoption.

Model

Program Delivery

Hands-on leadership of a specific initiative — CVP launch, acquiring expansion, AI deployment — through to measurable results.

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