A highly accomplished payments leader with extensive experience in helping merchants increase their scale, Hugh will spearhead Redbridge’s Global Payments Advisory practice, fostering the vision, strategy, and direction to deliver secure business growth to clients worldwide.

London, 27 January 2025 – Redbridge, an independent advisory firm providing comprehensive treasury operations and debt advice to corporations around the world, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hugh Paterson as Managing Director – Global Head of Payments.

Hugh joins Redbridge from Farfetch, a luxury clothing and beauty products marketplace generating several billion dollars in gross merchandise value, where he was Director of Payments – Fintech Operations. During his tenure, Hugh developed a world-class payments organization to support the company’s growth. He has also held leadership roles at PaySafe, Omio, Huawei, Visa and Worldpay. He has expertise in payment optimization, fraud prevention, risk management and the selection of cutting-edge payment technologies.

Reflecting on his new role, Hugh Paterson stated: “I’m delighted to join Redbridge, an organization that shares my vision of bringing transparency to the relationships between merchants and stakeholders in the payment industry. We are investing to build cutting-edge data-driven software to improve our services and this is a pivotal moment as our new platform will provide richer data insights for our clients, leading to improved operational performance and savings. I’m looking forward to using my experience to strengthen Redbridge’s leadership in analytics and advisory services, providing expertly crafted industry intelligence”.

Patrick Mina, Chief Executive Officer of Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory, shared his enthusiasm about Hugh’s appointment: “Hugh’s extensive knowledge of the payments ecosystem is a tremendous asset to our clients and teams in Europe and the United States. His experience in building world-class payments organizations for merchants and selecting payment methods, gateways, payment service providers, acquirers and fraud prevention vendors will add great value to our company. His appointment underscores Redbridge’s commitment to accelerate strategic investments that enhance our ability to provide unmatched advisory services and data-driven insights in the payments space.

 

About Redbridge Debt & Treasury Advisory
Founded in 1999, Redbridge is an independent advisory firm providing comprehensive treasury operations and debt advice to corporations around the world. With offices in Houston, Chicago, New York, London, Paris and Geneva, Redbridge helps companies optimize their financing and treasury operations, from the design of treasury organizations to the creation and implementation of operational solutions. The services we provide include providing advice on bank and merchant processing fees, treasury systems and debt financing structures.

About Redbridge’s Global Payments advisory practice
Redbridge’s Global Payments team helps companies navigate the rapidly evolving payments landscape, enabling them to adopt advanced payment architectures and stay at the forefront of innovation and client experience.

We’re using proprietary technology to provide high-quality advisory and analytics services, helping our clients increase their revenues, acquire new customers and cut costs.

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Cost of sales, fees and pricing
  • Authorization rate optimization
  • Fraud and chargeback strategies
  • Global and local payment methods
  • Data analytics, insights and reporting
  • Payments and risk provider selection, RFIs and RFPs, renegotiation
  • Provider agreements and terms
  • Scheme compliance management
  • End-to-end processing flows and architecture.

Redbridge serves some of the biggest brands in the world and is growing fast.

To learn more:
www.redbridgedta.com
www.redbridgedta.com/payments-advisory

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