Profile

Tribe Payments is an issuer and acquirer processor with a strong drive to become a leader in the paytech market. The company provides innovative solutions and core building blocks to banks, issuers, and acquirers, enabling them to focus on their strengths while empowering their customers. Tribe Payments aims to disrupt the industry by delivering game-changing technology and offering a single integration with global connectivity.

Visit www.tribepayments.com

Key Products

Founded in 2018 as an Issuer and Acquirer Processor, Tribe has evolved its payment platform to give customers the power to deliver frictionless, safe customer experiences at any or every point of the entire transaction flow, allowing merchants, banks, fintechs, issuers, and acquirers to easily access a full ecosystem of products, enabling them to build, customise, and launch innovative solutions quickly, without sacrificing quality.

Key Executives

Andrew Hocking, CEO

Andrew has held numerous senior leadership roles across multiple key players in the payments world, including Barclaycard, Elavon, Network International and Pay.com. He has a reputation for implementing high value interventions that have enabled rapid organic and inorganic growth for organisations, and extensive experience working with partners and investors globally to drive businesses into their next stage of growth.

Lynda Clarke, Chief Operating Officer

Lynda joined Tribe in 2022, bringing over a decade’s worth of experience in the payments sector across Europe and the Middle East, having previously held senior roles at Barclaycard, Elavon and Network International. She has a proven track record in product commercialisation, and launched the first acquirer-owned Android based POS application across the MEA.

Having also built and led high-performing P&L owning teams, Lynda joined Tribe as VP of Customer Success – before moving into her current COO role, in which she ensures that Tribe delivers a seamless experience to its customers.

Lynda has also been named among the Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology of Europe for 2023.

Guy Houghton, Chief Revenue Officer

Guy joined as Tribe’s Chief Revenue Officer, bringing over 30 years of commercial leadership experience in global technology companies serving the payments, banking, and fintech markets. Guy will work closely with Tribe’s Managing Director, Alex Reddish, to drive the company’s expansion and revenue strategies.

Having started his own payments, banking and fintech consultancy practice in 2022, Guy has an impressive track record in the industry. He most recently provided commercial leadership to Thredd (formerly Global Processing Services) and supported the business during a major transformation phase, following investment from private equity firms Advent, MissionOG, Viking, and Temasek.

Guy’s extensive experience includes 15 years at First Data (now part of Fiserv), where he led business and market expansion for their issuer processing business across the EMEA region. He also held executive responsibility for relationships with several large global financial institutions headquartered in the region.

Guy’s expertise spans business strategy, market entry and expansion, strategic sales at C-suite level, building and leading sales and customer success teams, business transformation, M&A, partnerships, and product and value proposition development.

Vytautas Mickevicius, Chief Technology Officer

Vytautas has been with Tribe since the beginning, and is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technology to all Tribe’s customers. He has spent over two decades working in the developer space, with a specific focus in the paytech and fintech space.

Full leadership team can be found here.

Customer Insights

“Paynt has dedicated itself to offering Acquiring-as-a-Service; providing much-needed versatility, reliability, and transparency for payments on and offline. Our value lies in the ability to provide integrated payments for the needs of all merchants – and Tribe is enabling us to do just that.” – Sam Kohli, Founder of Paynt

“As a trusted payments solution provider, Tribe meets PhotonPay’s requirements for system flexibility, scalability and full customisation. Tribe’s developer-led APIs also enabled PhotonPay to launch a pilot within weeks, and Tribe is now one of its key partners for global deployment.” – Chao Xu, Head of Product at PhotonPay

Competitors

Tribe is relatively unique in being both an issuer and acquirer processor. Competitors like Marqeta or Thredd usually on focus on one aspect.

Corporate Responsibility

Tribe Payments are heavily involved with championing women in payments and fintech. Tribe sponsored the 2024 EWPN Conference (European Women Payments Network) and our COO Lynda Clarke is a regular speaker at events and on podcasts discussing all things payments and women in fintech (often together). She was notably promoted while pregnant at Tribe in 2022.