Person wearing glasses looking at a screen

Payments consulting

The payments landscape is constantly evolving. Are you?

The past few years has seen an exponential rise in activity in the payments arena with Opening Banking, cryptocurrencies and digital wallets coming to the fore. And now the development of the New Payments Architecture, RTGS renewal and ISO20022 brings even more change – change that is all happening at the same time.

In the past the world of payments may have encountered one or two major developments at a time, but now we are seeing an unprecedented level of change. Increasing customer expectations are forcing banks to think more strategically about payments and re-evaluate their business models – front to back – from the customer experience to how payments are processed. Where do they need to modernise? And how?

Our payments solutions

The payments landscape is constantly evolving. Regulatory changes, increased competition and innovation, changing customer behaviour and new technology are shifting the payments industry and banks, corporates, and payments processors need to react.

We offer a wide range of solutions and services to support our financial services, corporate and government clients to drive their payments transformation.


Payments Modernisation – Retail Banking

  • Payments Infrastructure Design and Implementation
  • ISO20022 Implementation & leverage
  • Customer journeys
  • Testing Services
  • Operational Resilience
Bottle of mascara with an open lid

Payments Modernisation – Wholesale Banking

  • Realtime liquidity
  • Contracted Settlement v/s Actual Settlement
  • Tokenisation of Fungible and Non Fungible Assets
  • Testing Services
  • Operational Resilience
Bottle of orange juice with a filled glass and fruit next to it

Payments Regulation and Compliance

  • Payments Regulatory Transformation
  • FCA Authorisation and Registration assistance
  • Compliance reviews and assurance
  • Financial Crime prevention and detection
Bottle of water with a half filled glass next to it

National Infrastructure & Transformation Delivery

  • NPA & SEPA Instant Implementation
  • Real Time Payments delivery and assurance
  • FMI Design, Development, and Delivery
  • Scheme Design & Support
  • Payments Operations Transformation
  • Target Operating Model Design and Development
Tube of tooth paste with a toothbrush next to it

Payments Strategy and Product

  • Strategy
  • Product Design (digital payments, card services, merchant acquiring, open banking)
  • Payments Change
  • Partnerships and Deals
Packet of pills with lines of tablets next to it

Open Banking and Finance

  • Implementation and transformation support
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Commercialisation
  • Technology
Box of cereal with a bowl of cereal next to it


Why KPMG ?

Our UK Payments Consulting team has subject matter expertise at a business and technical level and extensive knowledge and experience in Payments transformations working with a variety of payments companies including banks, fintechs, and payments processors.

We also have an extensive global network of Payments professionals that will be leveraged to bring the best insights and learnings to your Payments transformation journey.

Given KPMG’s significant involvement in multiple implementations of critical national infrastructure systems around the world, we have a unique insight into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead and can help shape the strategy, mobilise programmes and lead your end-to-end payments transformation.

We work closely with our clients to understand their market, trends and forecasts, develop the right strategy and then help them implement it.

Get in touch with us to discuss how we can help.

Related insights

National Payment Vision summary

We address the key areas covered

New safeguarding rules for payments and e-money firms

A new chapter in the future direction of payments regulation in the UK

Post-merger or acquisition integration in Payments

How compliance teams can contribute to an effective integration post M&A



Something went wrong

Oops!! Something went wrong, please try again

Our people


Connect with us

KPMG combines our multi-disciplinary approach with deep, practical industry knowledge to help clients meet challenges and respond to opportunities. Connect with our team to start the conversation.

Two colleagues having a chat next to a building