Modernize your strategy and operations for a digitally driven payments and lending future, built for speed, control, experience, and trust

Payments & Lending Operations

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Overview

Payments and Lending are evolving fast: the industry demands faster, cheaper payments balanced with fraud risk, alongside new digital asset rails; AI-enabled lending delivers better experience, lower cost, and personalized offers. With fintechs, non-banks, and digital asset firms reshaping competition, strategy must adapt. We help consumer and commercial clients design strategies, select platforms and partners, and transform operations with AI — fueling growth with compliant, leading-edge products and services.


Market trends

80%+

increase in global cashless payment volumes expected from 2020 to 2025

Source https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/financial-services/fs-2025/pwc-future-of-payments.pdf
45%

of banking executives identify payment and transaction platforms as their largest competitive threat

Source https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/financial-services/library/re-engineering-the-bank-for-growth.html
15%

average potential efficiency-ratio improvement for banks that embrace AI

Source https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/financial-services/library/how-ai-is-reshaping-banking.html
$300B

in stablecoins are already moving through payment chains, treasury operations, and transfers

Source https://legal.pwc.de/en/services/pwc-legals-eu-regulatory-compliance-operations/pwcs-global-crypto-regulation-report.html

Capabilities

Modernized payments infrastructure with intelligent routing and automation

Enable real-time transactions across multiple rails with routing that balances cost, speed, and resiliency. We work with you to automate payment decisioning through ISO 20022–ready APIs, streamline end-to-end flows, and position your business for the next wave of digital payments.

AI-powered ACH repair and error correction

AI brings new efficiency to ACH by cutting manual effort, lowering costs, and improving reliability. We embed generative AI into operations to help you reduce exception rates, automate error resolution, and streamline client notifications at scale.

Modular integration across banking ecosystems

Fragmented systems slow progress and create friction across payments and lending. We provide flexible integration that connects treasury, payments, and CRM systems with minimal disruption. Our modular solutions accelerate adoption and prepare your organization for the future of digital finance.

Transforming Payments and Lending operations in the age of AI

Unlock growth by reimagining operations with AI at the core. From onboarding and underwriting to servicing and collections, we help you automate decisions, personalize experiences, and lower cost to serve. We design AI-enabled target operating models aligned to your strategy, strengthen controls, and build the talent and governance needed to scale — turning operational transformation into a durable competitive advantage.

Streamlined lending operations with risk and control alignment

Grow with confidence when risk and control standards are integrated into operations. We assess processes against industry benchmarks and internal requirements to design target operating models that help you improve scalability, increase consistency, and enhance control effectiveness.

Accelerated value through tailored transformation roadmaps

Transformation delivers more when investments and priorities are clearly sequenced. Using structured assessments, we work with you to create tailored roadmaps with investment cases and initiative portfolios, so improvements can scale quickly, create lasting impact, and prepare your business for what’s next.

AI-powered collections and recoveries

We partner with clients to transform collections and recoveries across the lifecycle — from pre-delinquency treatment strategies to loss mitigation and recovery plans. We build enhanced scoring for risk segmentation, align closely with fraud and credit, and redesign operations with Agentic AI. We also support partner selection and strategy, helping you deliver the future of collections: proactive, digital, and personalized engagement that improves outcomes for customers and the business.

End-to-end customer remediation support

Customer remediation is a complex challenge for financial institutions facing evolving regulatory expectations. When remediation programs fall short, the risks include regulatory action, operational disruption, and reputational impact. We help financial institutions design, govern, and execute customer remediation programs at scale – combining strategic program design with proven operational execution to proactively prepare for regulatory change or respond rapidly to unplanned events.

Tokenized deposit operating model design and implementation

Tokenized deposits require more than technology, they demand a rethinking of how a financial institution operates, governs, and interacts with clients. We help banks design and implement end-to-end operating models for tokenized deposits, covering integration architecture, client and internal interaction models, governance frameworks, and the risk and controls uplift needed to operate safely and at scale.

Stablecoin strategy and implementation for corporate treasury

Stablecoins offer real treasury value but realizing it requires clarity on where they fit and how to execute. We guide corporate treasury teams through value discovery and opportunity assessment, translating strategic intent into practical implementation — from use case prioritization and vendor selection to operational readiness and controls alignment.


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Jim Russell

Partner, Advisory, PwC US

Martin Touhey

Principal, Financial Services Transformation, PwC US

Sarah Daubenspeck

Principal, PwC Sector Operations Practice Lead, PwC US

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