Client
Open Banking Implementation Entity (part of The Bank of England)
Project
The UK Government launched an initiative to bring new payments method to the UK called Open Banking in 2017.
What we delivered
Advised the Open Banking Implementation Entity (part of the Bank of England) across 2019 and 2020 on all aspects of payments innovation commercials, the user cases that would deliver value to the UK economy and preferred roll-out strategy.
A key element of our engagement was the outreach we made to bill payment companies like HMRC and utilities to understand their payment needs and how this new payments innovation could deliver value to them.
Client
A Global Buy-out Company
Project
A Global Buy-out Company was making a bid for De La Rue which has put its Currency Division up for sale.
What we delivered
With broad experience in raising money for fintechs from Seed to Series B, we advised on all aspects of the commercial bid for De La Rue and funding raising from Private Equity partners.
We also have deep expertise in physical and digital currency market and advised the Buy-out team on all aspects of their bid for De La Rue.
We advised on levers to improve efficiency, on the innovations in the market moving from physical to digital currency and more widely on the market for CBDC and how this might be an opportunity for De La Rue.