Client:

Thredd

Agency:

Design Bridge and Partners

(formally Superunion)

Brief:

Unleashing the power

of partnerships

Scope:

Employee Engagement | Consumer Journey Mapping | Customer Segmentation | Pen Portraits | Brand Positioning | Naming | Brand Persona | TOV | Messaging | Visual Identity | Brand Playbook | Employer Brand and EVP

Client:

Thredd

Agency:

Design Bridge and Partners

(formally Superunion)

Scope:

Employee Engagement | Consumer Journey Mapping | Customer Segmentation | Pen Portraits | Brand Positioning | Naming | Brand Persona | TOV | Messaging | Visual Identity | Brand Playbook | Employer Brand and EVP

Brief:

Unleashing the power of partnerships


Client: Thredd

Scope: Employee Engagement | Consumer Journey Mapping | Customer Segmentation | Pen Portraits | Brand Positioning | Naming | Brand Persona | TOV | Messaging | Visual Identity | Brand Playbook | Employer Brand and EVP


Brief: Unleashing the power of partnerships

Challenge

Challenge

Challenge

Thredd, formerly known as GPS (Global Payment Systems), is a leading next-generation global payments platform that empowers top fintechs, digital banks, and embedded finance providers worldwide. Notably, disruptive neo-banks such as Starling Bank, Revolut, and Curve rely on Thredd to power their products, offering unique features such as real-time payment notifications and in-app card alerts.


However, GPS could be likened to a cake without icing, lacking a clear central vision or a distinctive brand. This left it with a muddled narrative, an indistinctive name and identity, an ambiguous internal culture, an ineffective brand for attracting top tech talent, and internal teams with disparate visions and communication styles.


With a new management team, strategic vision, and operating plan, GPS stands poised to benefit from a rebrand that signals a marked departure from the past— a clear and confident catalyst for change in its next phase of growth.

Thredd, formerly GPS, is a leading global payments platform for fintechs, digital banks, and embedded finance providers worldwide. Notably, disruptors like Starling Bank, Revolut, and Curve rely on Thredd for unique features.


However, GPS lacked a clear vision or brand, resulting in a muddled narrative, ambiguous culture, and challenges in attracting top tech talent.


With new leadership and strategy, a rebrand would act as a clear and confident catalyst for change in its next phase of growth.


Solutions

Solutions

Solutions

Built on partnership.

Built on partnership.

Time for a name change.

Time for a name change.

A fresh expression of 'true partnership'.

A fresh expression of 'true partnership'.

Results

Results

Results

The rebrand won two awards at the Brand Impact Awards: a Silver Award in the Financial Services category and a Bronze Award for Brand Strategy.

©2024 by Adnan Habis

©2024 by Adnan Habis

LET'S CREATE SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY TOGETHER

LET'S CREATE SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY TOGETHER

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Challenge

In May 2019, Informa Tech, a tech-focused professional service business offering various B2B services (media, events, training, and research), acquired IHS Markit Technology, a global leader in research, analysis, and strategic guidance for the technology, media, and telecommunication sectors.


This acquisition solidified Informa Tech's position as the fourth-largest research provider in the market, following Gartner, Forrester, and IDC. With Informa Tech already hosting several technology research brands, the merger presented an opportunity to optimise brand strategy for its next phase of growth.


More specifically, four key questions needed to be answered:

• How many brands do you need?

• What should the central story be? 

• Which brand name/s should you use? 

• How can we engage and unite +400 analysts and consultants in the process?