Ascent – your future, enabled

Ascent is a premium business, technology & transformation consulting firm solely focused on the financial services, retail and mobile network operator industries.

Focused Offerings

The New Payments Reality

Alternative business models are rewriting the rules of our industry, and payments is at the heart of this. The payments market is changing, and with….

Strategy and Multi Sided Platforms

The business world is in the midst of a digital and platform revolution, with many organisations rushing to achieve the promise of network effects

Risk & Compliance
Regulators demand compliance. Organisations need certainty in understanding, achieving, and proving compliance in the most effective manner.

Payments Training

The Ascent Payments Programme extends beyond the theoretical approach to Payments terms and concepts, and focuses on an actual understanding of the payments industry, how it practically works and what you need to be aware of when designing, or running, a payments organisation.

Ascent Insurance Accelerator

Accent provides a 3 staged mechanism for organisations to more effectively address customer needs in the immediate term, while positioning themselves within a broader ecosystem to leverage new revenue opportunities, cost savings and enabling the transition from legacy to target state

Standard offerings
Business and technology strategy
  • Strategic assessment
  • Business and enterprise architecture
  • Target operating model design
Operational excellence
  • Business assessment
  • Business alignment – objectives, metrics and reporting
  • Business process re-engineering
Large scale systems delivery
  • Large-scale program structuring and management
  • Business and systems analysis
  • Business and systems design (multi-country experience in Africa)
  • Systems integration 
  • Migration management
  • Deployment management (multi-country experience in Africa)
Finance, Risk and Compliance
  • Finance Optimisation
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Operational Risk

Africa & Emerging Markets Experience

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Solutions that work in-country
Ascent helps clients operate successfully in South Africa, Africa, and other emerging markets. We have worked in over 18 countries and this number grows consistently. We offer clients our in-depth knowledge about country nuances so that you can be sure that the solution we develop will work successfully in-country. Our journey has also aligned us with like-minded technology service providers, allowing us to offer the right solutions for every environment.

Average years in financial services

Tier 1 institutions

Individuals trained on payments

Project categories

African countries

Contact us

151 5th street
Sandton
Johannesburg