Robin Bearne
Senior Consultant
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Robin is a highly regarded industry expert in cards and payments, with more than 35 years experience in designing and leading change delivery projects across a wide range of European financial services organisations.
After a lengthy career with Lloyds Bank , Robin has now built a strong reputation as one of Europe’s foremost experts in payment transformation projects, having successfully complete 12+ card portfolio migrations and supported banks in launching new issuing and acquiring businesses.
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Robin's experience spans debit, credit, prepaid product lines (consumer and commercial) and ATMs. His subject matter expertise includes Change Delivery, Programme & Project Management, Commercial/Contractual Supplier Strategy, RFI/RFP Process Management, Supplier Reviews, Commercial Negotiations and Outsourcing
Amongst Robins more recent engagements, the following high-profile projects are illustrative:
Open Banking Implementation Entity – Project Delivery of key elements for the Confirmation of Payee proposition
Migration Consultancy – Card portfolio assessment and migration implementation planning.
Contract Benchmarking - mid contract benchmarking review for UK card issuer
FinTech Start Up – leading the commercial and contractual aspects for this innovative banking start up.
Commercial Workstream Lead – UK Financial Services, delivery of a new 3rd Party
Processing contract for Card and Payments processing, including defining migration requirements and schedules.
Programme Quality Assurance – Leading UK Bank, providing industry and commercial QA to one of the UK’s largest Card Migration Programmes
Programme Manager – Major UK Bank, mobilised major transformation programme, from implementing structure and resource engagement to work stream leadership.
RFP Project Manager – Major UK Bank – requirements gathering and documentation for outsourcing RFI/RFP process
Supplier Selection – Major UK Financial Services organisation, review and selection of potential partners for UK based Joint Venture.
Implementation Project Manager – Major Irish Bank, implementation phase manager for significant data conversion programme.