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Our consulting services are available across numerous industries, from retail to travel and hospitality; FIs are just one of the core industry segments we serve.

Mastercard organizes Advisors & Transformation around three disciplines: Advisory, Innovation and Deploy.

Advisory brings together experts from around the world to provide outside-in context and actionable recommendations that drive better business outcomes; Innovation moves bold ideas from concept to market-ready launch; and Deploy puts implementation specialists on the ground to execute critical initiatives, integrating technology, processes, and teams to deliver end-to-end transformation.

Agent Suite cuts across each of these disciplines, enabling organizations to accelerate rollout by scaling agentic AI responsibly. 

Big ideas often fall short in the gap between the whiteboard and the global marketplace. Consultants and delivery experts can close it by connecting strategic choices to the technological platforms that must carry them. They align these decisions to a core vision — informed by real experience within the global ecosystem of commerce — that extends across teams and functions.

Mastercard frames its own work the same way, integrating rich data insights, platforms and specialist advisors to inform decision-making, drive progress and scale ideas. But we don’t stop at consulting. Partnering with Mastercard gives brands access to end-to-end capabilities designed to support the full lifecycle, bolstered by dedicated disciplines in innovation and deployment.

Mastercard serves more than 1,000 clients each year, drawing on more than 20 years of advisory experience and the global expertise of 4,000 consultants and delivery experts.

But in consulting, expertise is table stakes. To further inform our perspective, Mastercard taps into proprietary data insights from one of the world's largest payment networks, analyzing up to a trillion data points every second to power smarter decision-making.

Mastercard offers a wealth of proprietary transaction data, with more than 175 billion aggregated transactions to contextualize a client's performance. Our industry know-how can help brands contextualize the systems and trends shaping global commerce. We also share accountability, embedding our consultants within the organization itself and taking a stake in outcomes, so that our work is judged by results rather than recommendations.

Our consulting services have helped brands generate millions in uplift and maximize efficiencies across a wide swath of industries, such as retail and travel and hospitality — and the payments industry is no exception. 

Few advisors can claim to sit at the center of the industry they advise. Mastercard combines two decades of experience in payments consulting and advisory services with a global perspective informed by its own transaction network. For acquirers, processors, banks and other FIs, that means counsel shaped by how payments actually move, not guesswork assembled from the outside.  

Yes. Mastercard Agent Suite is built to help organizations move from strategy and experimentation to fit-for-purpose agentic systems, with trust and governance at the core. The three disciplines — Advisory, Innovation and Deploy — apply here as well. Agent Suite helps organizations define a tailored AI strategy, experiment in a secure environment and deploy agentic solutions that transform workflows. Throughout every step, we prioritize security, responsible AI, human oversight and measurable results.

Results vary by engagement and across industries, spanning banking, travel and retail.

By partnering with Mastercard, FIs have uncovered millions of dollars in revenue and boosted retention at scale. Take one leading Central and Eastern European banking group, which achieved a 7-14% uplift in daily banking customer value (for selected campaigns) and removed 13,000 customers from high churn-risk segments. Another leading bank succeeded in optimizing its consumer credit card portfolio, creating an additional $49 million in revenue.  

Other engagements include a £15m lift in spend via an innovation partnership with Virgin Money UK, the creation of loyalty initiatives, forecasts and new routes with American Airlines, and Thai Airways' overhaul of its customer loyalty strategy.

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