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Fime Acquires Consult Hyperion, Creating a Global Consulting Leader in Payments, Smart Mobility, and Digital Identity

3rd September 20243rd September 2024by Consult HyperionLeave a comment

September 03, 2024 – Fime, a global leader in consulting, testing, and certification services, is excited to announce the acquisition of Consult Hyperion, a renowned consultancy firm with expertise across payments, smart mobility and digital identity. The acquisition augments and cements Fime’s ability to deliver comprehensive consulting and advisory services—from ideation to implementation and testing—across these key sectors.

Fime’s global reach coupled with Consult Hyperion’s specialized consulting and advisory expertise, creates a uniquely positioned offering to serve clients ranging from startups to established market leaders, with the ability to adapt to the needs of local markets worldwide.

Lionel Grosclaude, CEO of Fime, stated, “This acquisition marks a significant milestone for Fime. Together with Consult Hyperion, Fime will continue to offer unmatched value to clients, guiding projects from concept to deployment with a focus on innovation, security, and compliance. We are positioned to drive the future of payments, smart mobility, and digital identity.”

Consult Hyperion founders Stuart Fiske and Neil McEvoy added, “We have worked alongside Fime for a number of years, and are delighted to join forces with an organization sharing our values, including creativity, collaboration and deep expertise. Joining Fime enhances our ability to support clients worldwide in navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of our industries. Our combined strengths will deliver innovative, scalable, and more locally relevant consulting and advisory services.”

For further Fime media information, please contact:
Yash Raveendra yash@iseepr.co.uk at iseepr + 44 (0) 113 350 1922
Stéphanie Pietri stephanie.pietri@fime.com at Fime.

About Fime

Fime enables its clients to create and launch trusted and secure solutions through its consulting and testing services in payments, smart mobility, and digital identity. It offers a global cross-industry perspective, local insights, and a unique heritage in testing and certification. Fime’s consultants provide transformative business expertise, partnering with organizations worldwide to define, design, deliver, and test their products and services. With over 800 experts and employees around the world, Fime strategically works to help its clients turn ideas into reality, swiftly bring products to market, and achieve a competitive advantage. By working together, Fime transforms powerful innovations into the future of trusted transactions.

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About Consult Hyperion

Consult Hyperion is a globally recognized independent consultancy, providing thought leadership and expertise in the fields of payments, mobility and identity. For over 30 years we have helped clients explore the opportunities created by advances in technology, regulation and consumer behaviour. We provide expert advisory, technical consulting and software development services helping our clients solve problems, understand opportunities and future proof their ideas while maintaining robust security. Everything we deliver operates at scale, enabling billions of transactions, all over the world.

Fime acquires Consult Hyperion, creating a global consulting leader

3rd September 20243rd September 2024by Consult HyperionLeave a comment

Fime, a global leader in consulting, testing, and certification services, is excited to announce the acquisition of Consult Hyperion, a renowned consultancy firm with expertise across payments, smart mobility and digital identity. The acquisition augments and cements Fime’s ability to deliver comprehensive consulting and advisory services—from ideation to implementation and testing—across these key sectors.

Fime’s global reach coupled with Consult Hyperion’s specialized consulting and advisory expertise, creates a uniquely positioned offering to serve clients ranging from startups to established market leaders, with the ability to adapt to the needs of local markets worldwide.

This acquisition marks a significant milestone for Fime. Together with Consult Hyperion, Fime will continue to offer unmatched value to clients, guiding projects from concept to deployment with a focus on innovation, security, and compliance. We are positioned to drive the future of payments, smart mobility, and digital identity.

Lionel Grosclaude
CEO at Fime

We have worked alongside Fime for a number of years, and are delighted to join forces with an organization sharing our values, including creativity, collaboration and deep expertise. Joining Fime enhances our ability to support clients worldwide in navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of our industries. Our combined strengths will deliver innovative, scalable, and more locally relevant consulting and advisory services.

Stuart Fiske & Neil McEvoy
Consult Hyperion Founders

About Fime
Fime enables its clients to create and launch trusted and secure solutions through its consulting and testing services in payments, smart mobility, and digital identity. It offers a global cross-industry perspective, local insights, and a unique heritage in testing and certification. Fime’s consultants provide transformative business expertise, partnering with organizations worldwide to define, design, deliver, and test their products and services.

For further Fime media information, please contact:
Yash Raveendra yash@iseepr.co.uk at iseepr + 44 (0) 113 350 1922
Stéphanie Pietri stephanie.pietri@fime.com at Fime.

With over 800 experts and employees around the world, Fime strategically works to help its clients turn ideas into reality, swiftly bring products to market, and achieve a competitive advantage. By working together, Fime transforms powerful innovations into the future of trusted transactions.

About Consult Hyperion
Consult Hyperion is a globally recognized independent consultancy, providing thought leadership and expertise in the fields of payments, mobility and identity. For over 30 years we have helped clients explore the opportunities created by advances in technology, regulation and consumer behaviour. We provide expert advisory, technical consulting and software development services helping our clients solve problems, understand opportunities and future proof their ideas while maintaining robust security. Everything we deliver operates at scale, enabling billions of transactions, all over the world.

Identity in the Metaverse

28th June 20222nd September 2024by David G.W. Birch1 Comment

I had the privilege to chair a discussion about identity in the metaverse at the Identiverse conference in Denver in June 2022, and had great fun discussing the new landscape for identity with Heather Vescent, Jonathan Howle, Katryna Dow and Gopal Padinjaruveetil. In order to frame my thoughts and get the discussion about identity and privacy going, I needed a mental model.

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Do I need to upgrade my Fare Collection system to support CBDC?

17th May 20222nd September 2024by Simon LakerLeave a comment

This week, a press release from China announced they had expanded acceptance of the digital Yuan onto public transport in 12 cities. China has led the way in the development of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), launching a trial in 2020 which has been expanding steadily. But what does this mean? What is a CBDC? And when will I need to consider accepting them in public transportation?

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Brazilians wow the world of Open Banking

14th April 20222nd September 2024by Margaret FordLeave a comment

At last week’s FDX Virtual Spring Global Summit, I received a glimpse into the huge strides being made by the Financial Data Exchange in the adoption of their data sharing API for the US market. In the context of minimal centralised regulation in the US, progress is driven by industry. This marks a substantial move away from screen scraping, which has historically been prominent in the US market. While the API approach provides value in terms of security and standardisation, many organisations still depend on screen scraping to support their business model.

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Safer Internet Day 2022 – It’s all about you!

8th February 20222nd September 2024by Margaret Ford1 Comment

For Safer Internet Day, I thought I’d bring a Mediterranean theme. As a classicist, I frequently switch between ancient and modern, applying time-tested principles to emerging technologies. Plato had it right on data protection: the price of not participating in public life is to be ruled by less able men.

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Can Current Technology Deliver Secure Mobile Voting Solutions?

27th January 20222nd September 2024by Nick NormanLeave a comment

Insecure technology is regularly cited as barrier to the use of online voting systems, in particular when casting your vote through your mobile phone, rather than putting your cross on a piece of paper and putting in a box at the polling station or mail box. At the same time those detractors trust the same mobile technology to place stock trades, initiate high value payments and more recently accessing their health records.

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Be on the smart side of the Great Reset

14th December 20212nd September 2024by Lishoy FrancisLeave a comment

The human society is now at crossroads – demanding changes in our lifestyle, health choices, economics, and civil liberties. These changes are accelerated by climate change, political response to the pandemic, the need for racial and gender equality, human migration, and of course, a few break-through technologies such as digital automation, data analytics, and machine-learning (AI). So where are we heading? The call for “Great Reset” has been reverberating since the past few years and is now getting louder and louder. This was the topic of the virtual fireside chat by two visionaries on our Tomorrow’s Transactions webinar, Brett King and Dave Birch, discussing the societal and technological changes that are foreseen in the next few decades. This conversation was centered around Brett King’s (Richard Petty, co-author) book, “The Rise of Technosocialism” and aligns with Consult Hyperion’s engagement with think tanks on global issues. Our aim to is separate foresight and facts from fiction in trying to understand the trends in the market that our clients should watch-out for especially in payments, banking, transit, digital identity, and information security.

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Will 2022 start to drive the future of Interoperability and Inclusion?

13th December 20212nd September 2024by Tim RichardsLeave a comment

Our overriding theme of this year’s Live5 is interoperability which will lead to inclusion. Whether this is in payments or transit, identity or as a generalised trend what we’re seeing is a collapsing of the barriers between silos. In some areas this is happening more quickly than in others.

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Children’s Digital Rights

25th November 20212nd September 2024by Margaret FordLeave a comment

At Consult Hyperion we frequently discuss the implications of financial crime migrating online. You’re less likely to be mugged at the cashpoint but the online environment is of course open to a wider range of attackers, often well hidden, and operating in diverse geographies. Personally, I have little patience with those who cite the ‘Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse’: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers and child pornographers. It is, therefore, particularly refreshing to see a genuinely practical approach to child protection being promoted by TrustElevate, drawing on opinions expressed by young people themselves.

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