Independent payments & banking consultancy

Advice that sits
on your side of the table.

Senior leadership across banking and payments since 2000 — international banking, finance, compliance, risk, underwriting, partnerships and sales operations. That depth gives you something a provider never will: straight answers, honest advice and acquirer relationships that work on your side of the table. Whether you're paying too much to process payments or facing decisions your business can't afford to get wrong — you're in the right place.

20+

Years of banking & industry experience

Senior leadership across the UK payments industry — strategy, commercial management and operational expertise earned inside Barclays Bank PLC, Worldpay, CashFlows, Trust Payments and DNA Payments Group, in addition to senior leadership roles across multiple independent payments companies and consultancies.

Handled, end to end.

Finding or switching providers is disruptive — and for startups, it's time they simply don't have. We take the entire interim process off your desk — sourcing, negotiation, onboarding, migration — while your team keeps running the business.

One point of contact. We deal with the providers.

From first call to first settlement, you talk to us — not a queue of acquirer account managers chasing their own targets.

Whole-of-market, on your side of the table

Not tied to a single acquirer. Every recommendation is built on your volumes, your model and your risk profile.

Recent impact

Outcomes, not adjectives.

All case studies

11%

11% saving on overall processing costs.

New acquiring relationship with reduced rates, including the foreign exchange conversion, and improved settlement terms, improving cash flow for the business.

£36k

£36,000 annual saving on corporate card costs.

Worked through the Visa Merchant Performance Program to reduce corporate card acceptance costs, and facilitated an account-to-account payment option alongside existing card acceptance.

6 weeks

EU expansion live in six weeks, not six months.

Local payment methods sourced and implemented, plus improved acquirer fees with an additional acquirer relationship for certain currencies.

In their words

What clients say after we've finished the work.

Pryor Payments rebuilt our pricing schedule from the ground up and saved us more in a quarter than our finance team had found in three years.

CFO

UK multi-brand retailer

Straight, technical, and refreshingly free of the usual acquirer sales theatre. They told us to stay put — and told us exactly why.

Founder & CEO

European SaaS platform

The most useful 48 hours we've spent on payments. Their read gave the board a decision it could actually make.

COO

Cross-border marketplace

Client names withheld under standard confidentiality terms. References available on request for serious enquiries.

Free · No obligation · 48-hour turnaround

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