The Kessler Group is a privately owned financial services firm based in Boston specializing in partnership development, credit card marketing and portfolio acquisitions. The Kessler Group employs its unique combination of marketing and transaction expertise to create innovative solutions for its clients in the credit card, consumer finance and insurance industries. The firm employs over 280 associates in Boston, San Francisco, Washington DC, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, Sydney and Toronto. Founded in 1979, The Kessler Group pioneered the affinity credit card concept and has created and marketed over 6,000 affinity and co-branded card programs for many of the leading partnership marketing card issuers in the world. Through its marketing subsidiary, the firm manages the production of approximately 1.5 billion pieces of direct mail per year and through its investment banking group, has managed over 350 credit card transactions, working with virtually all leading credit card issuers, as buyers and sellers, in the United States and the United Kingdom.