Our Expertise

Our subject matter expertise spans the entire value chain of financial institutions and fintechs – from distribution via products & services, risk management, regulatory & compliance all the way to the data, software and technology underpinning the business model.

We understand the business, technology and regulatory environment. And we put these three persepectives together for better insights and solutions.

Find out more about our expertise:

  • Financial distribution networks (IFA’s; brokers; agents; funds distribution platforms)
  • Wealth Management advisory solutions
  • Life & Pensions advisory solutions
  • Client onboarding

We are very familiar with a broad range of financial products and solutions:

Banking
  • Credit (Commercial; mortgage lending; consumer finance)
  • Accounts and Deposits
  • Brokerage
  • Investments
  • Derivatives (OTC, ETD)
  • Trading (regulated exchanges, MTF, OTF)
  • Payments (SEPA, cross-border; payment schemes / cards; PCI; EPI)
  • Securities Servicing (clearing & settlement; post-trade processing; custody)
Asset Management
  • UCITS
  • AIF
  • Fund administration
  • Fund management companies / ManCo’s
  • Depositary
  • Transfer Agency
Insurance
  • Life & Pensions
  • Employee pensions (bAV)
  • P & C
  • Health
  • Credit risk management
  • Operational risk management
  • Internal Control Systems
  • Fraud prevention

Compliance

  • KYC / AML
  • Market Abuse
  • Insider Trading
  • Benchmark Regulation

 

Regulatory

  • Bank Capital Adequacy (CRR)
  • Market Conduct (MiFID)
  • Funds regulation (AIFM, UCITS Directive)
  • PRIIPS
  • ESG (SFDR, taxonomy)
  • Insurance capital adequacy (Solvency II)
  • Insurance Distribution (IDD)
  • EIOPA Pensions / ebAV
  • ESMA supervision

 

Tax

  • Capital gains tax
  • Withholding tax claims
    FATCA / QI
  • OECD Automated Exchange of Data / Common Reporting Standards
  • Reference and market data (Refinitiv, Bloomberg, WM Daten, SIX, etc.)
  • Rating and scoring data (DBR, Moody’s, S&P, Fitch, Experian, CRIF, etc.)
  • Financial services data formats and templates (SWIFT, BIPRO, EMT, EET, etc.)
  • Extract – Load – Transform (ETL)
  • Data Warehouse
  • Data Models

 

  • Application Architecture
  • Software Technology Stack
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Software deployment and release management