FirstPartner

FirstPartner is a specialist management consulting and research company that brings deep market expertise and clear recommendations to its clients. We deliver the insight, expertise and support that product, marketing, sales and management teams require to:

• validate market opportunities - both geographical and vertical
• launch compelling digital products & services – in payments and transit ticketing
• build engagement with customers, stakeholders and partners

Founded in 2002, FirstPartner are based in the UK, but serve clients and undertake consulting and research engagements across Europe, North America, MENA and Asia Pacific.

We have a payments practice led by Richard Warren working with card payment schemes, issuers (bank and non-bank), merchant acquirers, PSPs, FinTech’s and technology vendors. FirstPartner recent experience and project focus has been on issuer segmentation research and analysis, Risk as a Service (RaaS) business case modelling tool, Open Banking (OB) Go to Market Strategy (GTM), PSD2 SCA manuals, payments authentication and payments acceptance.        

We also have a focused transport and transit ticketing consulting practice led by Tim Jefferson, that provides consultancy services to transit agencies, card payment schemes. merchant acquirers, banks, OEM wallet providers and technology vendors. We are subject matter experts in cEMV Open Payments, mobile ticketing (OEM mobile wallets, card virtualisation, mobile apps, QR etc), Account Based ticketing (ABT), card and pre-paid cards. We have unique current experience of defining, procuring and delivering cEMV open payments ABT solutions in Europe, MENA and North America.

Tim Jefferson, from FirstPartner will facilitate and chair sessions at the Rotterdam and London Payments Leaders Summit events, with Richard Warren attending in London. If you would like to meet up with Tim or Richard at either event please contact them via Tim at tjefferson@firstpartner.net.