Payments

Payments should drive revenue, not function as a cost center. SRM helps financial institutions optimize performance and growth across networks, processing, fraud and emerging payment systems.

Unlock Growth in Commercial Payments

Many institutions underperform in commercial payments due to fragmented strategy and limited market visibility. SRM works with financial institutions to modernize and future-proof commercial payments by identifying growth opportunities, optimizing commercial payments for growth and efficiency, and aligning your offering to market demand.

Strengthen Consumer Payments Performance

Consumer payments are evolving faster than most institutions can adapt. SRM brings the data, expertise, and execution to help you understand where you stand and how to improve. Using proprietary data and targeted strategy development we can help you improve performance and unlock revenue opportunities across cards, digital, and account-based payments.

  • Cards and Digital Wallets

  • Account-Based Money Movement

  • Merchant Solutions

  • Emerging Payments and Digital Assets

Increase Card Portfolio Profitability

Card payments usage and economics are constantly evolving, impacting the performance of an institution’s debit and credit card portfolio. SRM payments experts understand these dynamics and work to provide comprehensive portfolio analysis, benchmark card performance, identify profitability drivers and develop actionable recommendations to drive card growth while managing regulatory and market impact.

  • Card Conversion

  • New Product Launch

  • Portfolio Optimization

  • Regulatory Impact

Reduce Fraud Without Slowing Growth

Payments fraud is happening faster and on a grander scale, placing unprecedented pressure on financial institutions to stay one step ahead. From real-time payments to card fraud and account takeovers, the threats are complex, costly, and constantly changing. SRM is your partner to help you understand the evolving fraud landscape and to build intelligent, adaptive fraud management solutions to safeguard your institution, while balancing the user experience and operational efficiency.

  • Fraud prevention, detection, and resolution

  • Root Cause Analysis

  • Data-Driven Fraud Strategy

  • Technology Assessment

Prepare for Instant and Emerging Payments

New payment methods are changing user expectations and payment economics, and regulatory and competitive pressures are driving financial institutions to enhance their legacy payments systems and infrastructure. We can help you assess payments modernization strategies, benchmark capabilities with best practices, and build a clear roadmap for emerging and future payments use cases.

  • New Payments Rails and Standards

  • Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits Strategy

  • Impact of AI on Payments

  • Fintech Integrations

Enter New Markets With Confidence

Expanding into new payment areas requires the right strategy, partners, and economics. SRM brings market insight and execution support to help you launch and scale new payment capabilities with confidence, reduce risk and accelerate growth.

  • Market Overview and Assessment

  • Competitive Analysis and Positioning

  • Customer/Member Segmentation

  • GTM Strategy and Sales Enablement

Build Products That Compete and Win

Payments are no longer just transactions or a utility; they are the most frequent touchpoint, and increasingly, the most strategic relationship. SRM leverages real-world data and expertise to help financial institutions in developing and evolving payments products and platform strategies aligned to user demand, market trends, and revenue potential.

  • Payments Product Development

  • Program Management

  • Product Partnerships

Optimize Payments Economics

Without market benchmarks, vendors and suppliers have the advantage. SRM uses proprietary data from 1,000+ institutions to help our clients secure ideal vendor fit, negotiate better value and outcomes and then stays through execution to ensure results are realized.

  • Contract Negotiation

  • Merger & Acquisition Support

  • Vendor Evaluation and RFP Services

What Our Clients Say About Us

“Working with SRM was an opportunity to bring on experts as an extension of our team. Their track record of savings for their clients and sensible approach to these projects has been a difference maker for our success.

President and CEO
Texans Credit Union

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