Fime’s Vision for the Future: Shaping the Future of Consulting – A Deep Dive With Raphael Guilley

Fime is a global consulting and testing company that has over 900 experts spread across twenty countries and acts as a major partner in helping clients implement secure and innovative solutions across the payment, smart mobility, and digital identity sectors Fime is a trusted partner for clients who are navigating these complex markets and their mission revolves around enabling innovation while ensuring that security, particularly in transactions, remains a top priority.

Acquisition of Consult Hyperion

2024 was a huge year for both Fime with the acquisition Consult Hyperion, which instigated massive change. But what was the strategic thinking behind the acquisition by Fime of Consult Hyperion, and how does it fit into the bigger picture and plans for Fime?

For Fime’s consulting activities, it represents three different teams who all share the same passion and by combining forces, complementary skills this creates a unique group of 120 consultants of deep experts who know the market and technologies inside and out. After the integration of the unique team, means that Fime will act under the new brand, Consult Hyperion – bringing their customers a unique market view.

Adding real value for their customers, the acquisition helped Fime to make innovation possible for their customers, understand the market, making a proper assessment, define a strategy, understanding the impact and the risk analysis, the strategic planning – making innovation possible.

Fime’s vision is to be positioned on the market as specialists in payments, smart mobility and digital identity – and by combining the three entities into Fime, they now have a truly global geographical reach including major cities like London, Dubai, and New York meaning that Fime are supporting these major cities to implement mobile ticketing – as citizens want to rely on their smartphone to enter into a metro network with account-based ticketing that will help the cities to implement a new fare plan and additionally, EMV open loop to facilitate, for example, tourism.

By 2026, each member state in Europe should have a digital identity wallet and as a wallet provider, Fime ask all the critical questions you’d expect enabling them to onboard the ecosystem together which is expanding with each client targeting a specific need.

Multiple new payments methods including cards, instant payments, A2A and stablecoin or CBDCs, digital currencies want to leverage the card rails to make sure that the wallet and terminal will be able to accept instant payments – ending in that there is a broad payment acceptance of this type of new payment. And the team, collectively, from Consult Hyperion and from Fime, have so much experience across all these sectors.