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Your Payment Experts

WE GO DEEPER AND CREATE VALUE

OSTHAVEN is a highly specialized management consultancy for the payment and banking sector. With the combination of entrepreneurial spirit and profound know-how we support you in realizing your goals. As a reliable consultant and competent partner, we accompany you step by step through your challenges. Strong identification with our customers is the prerequisite for the development of successful solutions that meet the constant market changes and customer requirements. In doing so, we always act pragmatic, full of passion and visionary.

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PEOPLE

The OSTHAVEN team consists of payment experts who know their business. We have acquired our deep market knowledge and vast expertise through many years of professional and project experience.

What spurs us on:

PASSION FOR PAYMENT & BANKING

SERVICES

WITH DEEP KNOWLEDGE AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE WE HAVE EVALUATED, RETHOUGHT, CHANGED, SUPPORTED, LAUNCHED, SHAPED AND EXPANDED.

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Customers

  • Banks and credit institutions
  • Merchant Acquirer
  • Issuer (card issuers)
  • FinTechs
  • Credit card organizations
  • Payment Service Provider
  • Network Service Provider
  • Retail merchants
  • Private Equity companies
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Strategy & M&A

  • Strategy & Implementation
  • Business Modelling
  • Market analysis
  • Market entry strategies
  • Digital business models
  • M&A Advisory
  • Commercial Due Diligence
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Regulatory & Compliance

  • Regulation (e.g. PSD2, MIF, SCA, AML)
  • Licenses (financial institution, e-money)
  • Compliance
  • Risk Management
  • Know Your Customer/ Business
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Product Management

  • Product Development
  • Pricing Strategy
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Merchant Acquiring
  • Issuing
  • Card Payment
  • Online/ Mobile Payments
  • Processing
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Service

  • Project Management
  • Interim Management
  • Business process optimization
  • Cost/benefit analyses
  • RFP / Tenders

WE SHARE OUR OPINION

Wero goes e-commerce: The European payment solution between challenges and ambitions

Wero goes e-commerce: The European payment solution between challenges and ambitions

Posted on 17.10.2025 By Ralf Hesse

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is about to enter the merchant business with Wero: In autumn 2025, EPI wants to enter the acceptance business in Germany with its first pilot merchants in e-commerce.  But is this ambitious schedule realistic? Time to take stock: Where does Wero currently stand, what hurdles still need to be overcome,…