David Parker
CEO at Polymath Consulting
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Profile

David is the founder and CEO of Polymath Consulting who work on projects and advise organisations across the Cards & Payments industry.
He is an active mentor, NED and advisor to boards including: 3S Money, Lifetidy, KYP, Swiipr, Unizest, Enfuce, Edfundo, along with others.
He is the co-founder of Konsentus that does TPP regulatory and identity checking for PSD2 open banking and recently KYP Ltd. that does 3rd party enterprise continuous risk monitoring and alerts.
In consultancy he has worked across the complete value chain helping banks with their overall E-Money/Prepaid and Emerging Payments strategy right through to market entry analysis; as well as working with telcos, processors and programme managers on segment analysis, certification and membership applications.
Geographically his client assignments have covered Russia, South Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia; in reality clients have come from all continents other an Antarctic.
He is an active contributor to forums on linkedin and a regular media commentator on the future of e-money/emerging payments.
He chairs conferences and events from Mumbai to Moscow; Las Vegas to London and Johannesburg/Nairobi in Africa to Colombo/Sri Lanka.