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Payments consulting services

Discover how Crowe payments consulting services can help you navigate growth and changing business needs with confidence.

Navigate the future of payments

Crowe specialists can help modernize payments, manage emerging risks, and build resilient infrastructure and controls to stay competitive as your ecosystem evolves.

Innovations in payments are creating new opportunities and new layers of complexity.

As regulatory and competitive pressures shift, Crowe payments consulting services can help your organization improve anti-money laundering (AML) and consumer compliance, fraud prevention, risk assessments, data and model governance, third-party risk, merchant onboarding, and dispute and chargeback processes.

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Ways we can help

From optimizing existing payments operations to evaluating partnerships, Crowe offers payments industry knowledge and multidisciplinary capabilities to help companies move forward with greater confidence.

Learn how our payments consulting services can help you get started.

AML and CFT program design, audits, testing, and tuning

We can help execute a range of activities associated with AML, countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), and sanctions regulations.

Explore program design and testing services

Regulatory issues management and remediation

We can work with you to address acute regulatory challenges and develop overall compliance action plans that protect consumers and work for your business.

Explore our regulatory response services

Risk assessments

We can help you conduct and consolidate a wide array of risk assessments and generate actionable findings.

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Data governance maturity assessments and remediation

We can help you set up a governance process, implement tools to control your data, and establish organizational structures to improve and maintain data quality.

Explore our data governance services

Incident response

Our team can help you quickly and decisively respond to data breaches and other cyberattacks to minimize damage to your bank or financial services company.

Explore our incident response services

PCI compliance services

We can work with you to stay on top of evolving challenges with cybersecurity and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1.

Explore our PCI compliance services

Third-party risk management programs 

We can help your bank or financial services company identify and manage risks associated with payments partners, independent sales organizations, and vendors.

Explore our third-party risk services

Internal audit 

Our banking and financial services specialists can help you reveal potential issues with payments systems and processes with intensive internal audits.

Explore our internal audit services

Accounting advisory

Our team can help you navigate complex accounting considerations related to payments processes and regulatory requirements, including those associated with M&A transactions and IPOs.

Explore our accounting advisory services

Tax consulting and compliance

Our deep financial services experience and tax expertise can help you understand tax issues and opportunities in payments, such as unclaimed property and energy credits.

Explore our tax services

AI transformation and governance

We can work with your bank or financial services company to uncover new ways to optimize payments systems and processes with AI.

Explore our AI services

Model risk management

Our team can help you develop new model risk management (MRM) programs and implement solutions that provide greater insight into payments risks.

Explore our MRM services

Responsible optimization 

We can work with your payments company to find new efficiencies and streamline processes without slowing down your payments activities.

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Blockchain and digital assets

Our specialists can help you address accounting and payments complexities involving blockchain and digital assets.

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Crowe helps payments companies navigate real-time and instant payments, digital assets, cross-border growth, fraud and cyber convergence, and emerging uses of AI while strengthening the governance, infrastructure, and risk management capabilities that support them.

Get in touch to learn more about how we can help.

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Jacob M. Rivkin
Partner, Consulting,
Crowe Advisory LLC
Cody Lewis
Cody Lewis
Partner, Tax,
Crowe Advisory LLC

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