Citi Chooses Global Payments and PPRO as Partners for its New Digital Consumer Payments Business

New York – Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) announced today that it is entering into additional partnerships to support the development of its forthcoming consumer payments offering for institutional clients—Spring by CitiSM. Citi will incorporate Global Payments' card processing solutions and PPRO's access to local payment methods within its holistic offering. The addition of these partners support Citi's strategy of building a comprehensive consumer payments solution, integrated with its market leading transaction banking proposition.

Announced earlier this year, Spring by Citi will enable digital commerce for clients by extending Citi's significant presence and capabilities offered to institutional clients. Leveraging the Mastercard payment gateway, Spring by Citi will offer institutional merchants the ability to collect from a wide range of payment methods including cards, e-wallets and new and innovative bank transfers such as Request to Pay, Instant Payments and Open Banking. In turn, their customers will have access to a wide variety of payment methods of their choice.

"These partnerships are core to our building an end-to-end offering of transaction banking services, centralized under a single relationship and supported by fintech partners that accelerate the delivery of innovative solutions. It is another significant step towards our goal of delivering Spring by Citi—a client-driven solution that will benefit both our clients and our clients' customers," said Manish Kohli, Global Head of Payments and Receivables, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi.

Institutional merchants are looking for secure, simple, and reliable solutions that are functionally rich to build lasting relationships with consumers. They're also looking for global consistency and are continuously seeking ways to enhance payments acceptance, drive revenue and lower costs.

Spring by Citi's mission is simple: help customer-centric institutions build seamless experiences that increase sales conversion while mitigating risk. To that end, Spring by Citi brings together varying objectives of corporate treasury, payments and the business, delivering value to each part of their organization.

Citi's partnership with Global Payments will help institutional clients increase payments acceptance and optimize local card processing. Global Payments is known for simplifying commerce through their extensive global reach, deep local-market expertise and cutting-edge payments solutions that position clients for growth.

"We see tremendous client value in joining Citi's transaction banking proposition with Global Payments' Unified Commerce Platform. This partnership will provide market-leading innovation to create a frictionless payment experience for Citi's multinational clients," said Jeff Sloan, CEO of Global Payments.

Spring by Citi will expand consumer's payment options to non-bank channels by partnering with PPRO to provide single-window access to a growing number of local payment methods across the world.

"While commerce has become more global, payments have become increasingly local. Delivering centralized access to local payment methods on a global scale helps Citi, and in turn their clients, reach more consumers. We're very excited to partner with Citi on simplifying an increasingly complex payments landscape," said Simon Black, CEO of PPRO.

Spring by Citi will be further expanding its offering and will partner with more best-in-class players in the payments space.