Innovators in payments SQE
Hive is a UK-based consultancy specialising in payments SQE. Our mission is to help financial institutions, banks and fintechs navigate the complex world of certification, ensuring payments faster, testing for seamless compliance and frictionless processes.
Our innovative solutions revolutionise payment testing processes, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.
We provide consultancy services to navigate complex regulations globally, fostering trust and reliability.
Our focus on security excellence ensures the protection of sensitive payment data and systems.
We offer future-proof consultancy services to help clients build robust and adaptable payment platforms.
Our SaaS streamlines compliance testing, minimises risk, and speeds up certification.
Our experts provide tailored guidance to streamline compliance testing and reduce risk.
Simplifying payments SQE, one solution at a time
Founded by industry experts Sean Beesting and Neill McCarthy, Hive brings together decades of experience, innovative technology, and trusted partnerships to deliver bespoke consultancy and TaaS tailored to your needs.
Backed by our trusted partners, we are looking to positively disrupt the market in the payments space to drive certainty of outcomes.
Driving innovation in payment systems
At Hive, we believe payments SQE should be efficient, transparent, and future proof. Our vision is to become the trusted global leader in payments SQE.
Accelerate certification
Reducing time to market for banks and fintechs.
Enhance
transparency
Offering clear, actionable insights demonstrating testing outcomes.
Foster
collaboration
Leveraging partnerships to deliver innovative, end-to-end solutions.
Deliver better outcomes
Ensuring every client achieves better business outcomes.
The Hive journey
Hive was founded by Sean Beesting and Neill McCarthy. It was born out of a simple yet powerful idea: to remove friction from payments certification and bring more certainty to financial institutions.
With extensive experience at Visa and IBM, Sean saw the inefficiencies in traditional payments SQE. Determined to create a better solution, he founded Hive – the only end-to-end payments SQE and consultancy provider, combining expert guidance with cutting-edge technology.
What’s in a name?
Much like a natural hive, we believe in collaboration, synergy, and efficiency. At Hive, every element—our clients, our people, technology, and expertise—works together to create better collective value for our clients.
Our clients are an integral part of the Hive. By combining their knowledge and experience with our expertise, we create a stronger, more collaborative ecosystem—delivering better outcomes together.
With world-class consultancy, cutting-edge payments SQE, and strategic partnerships, we ensure that banks and fintechs achieve faster, more secure, and fully compliant outcomes.
Collaborating with industry leaders for better outcomes.
The team
Our proprietary SQE frameworks provide full lifecycle coverage—from initial transactions to exception handling and fraud prevention. We’re more than just a consultancy—we’re your trusted partner.