Global Payments Consulting Group
Company Profile

Global Payments Consulting is one of the most recognized and respected consulting firms in the payments industry servicing over 100 banks in 22 countries throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and Europe. Global Payments has put its collective management experience in the industry to work in the building of dynamic and profitable solutions enabling our clients to meet the challenges presented in strategic and day-to-day business operations. With extensive knowledge of the best industry standards and practices being employed - and the latest trends in the worldwide payments arena – Global Payments offers customized systems solutions for improving profitability management, segmentation and cross selling that transform our clients' challenges into business opportunities.

Global Payments is also recognized as a leader in new product development, mass market penetration, and life cycle consulting. We have supported the development and launch of some of the most innovative and successful products including loyalty and mass market programs in the marketplace, integrating campaigns with multi-tiered customer reward and redemption opportunities. We have provided guidance to hundreds of clients, including Fortune 500 companies such as Capital One and Visa International in the United States, Bancomer and Banamex in Mexico; data base management projects for Banesco in Venezuela, Banco de Credito in Dominican Republic, and Banco de Guayaquil in Ecuador; profitability projects with Bradesco, and Visanet do Brasil; Banco de Bogota, Bancolombia and Colpatria in Colombia and Banesco in Venezuela.

Since 1998, Global Payments Consulting, Inc. has been bringing together issuing banks and IT Professionals to leverage their knowledge and skills to successfully complete data base analysis projects. Our alliance with eKnowlogie, a U.S. software technology and services company founded to create advanced, state-of-the-art software technologies for the payment systems unavailable anywhere else in the world, provides highly-specialized products and services to the Company's clients.

Global Payments enjoys a long-standing technology partnership with eKnowlogie, a U.S. company creator of CardProfit (www.eknowlogie.com/CardProfit), a strategic business intelligence software application for the banking industry, used to increase the profitability of credit card and pay­ments products in multi-dimensional segmented markets through a bench­mark-driven process for maximum potential value source iden­ti­fi­cation to support goal setting, valuation and monitoring. Global Payments and eKnowlogie leverage their experience to develop innovative solutions for new card programs and to revitalize existing programs to ensure that they remain at the forefront of the consumer marketplace. Our mission is to provide a full range of services at all levels to the Payment Systems and Cards Market. These technologies and services includes strategic, CMR, business and operational support including planning, product development, card product management, cross selling, data base management, risk management, and profitability standards.

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Our particular strengths lie in:

• Defining and implementing profitability and segmentation standards for issuing and acquiring banks.
• Building segmentation solutions based on sound strategies built on years of experience. Solutions that keep our clients ahead of market trends and ensure that they are well positioned to capitalize on up-selling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Assisting organizations to match their systems and technologies to their business strategies in the form of practical segmentation and cross selling management plans.
• Managing the successful implementation of new products.
• Developing data base information systems and segmentation strategies.
• Ensuring organizational change and new management structures.