Financial services, measured where it happens.
Regulated firms move slowly for a reason, and most of the reason is that nobody can reconstruct how a decision was made. Our financial-services work is about making the firm legible to itself first and to its examiner second, so that a launch is not blocked by a question that should have taken an afternoon.
S.01 · 11 engagements · 1 published
On the record in financial services.
Nothing in financial services is published yet, the engagements are under agreements that do not permit it. Ask us about them.
What is going wrong.
01
Examiners ask faster than the firm can answer
A model-risk question that takes nine days to assemble is a control failure whatever the answer says.
02
Two reports, two numbers
Finance and risk count the same thing differently, and the board hears both.
03
Cost growing faster than the book
Operations headcount tracks complexity, not volume, and nobody has measured the complexity.
What we do about it.
Risk, Governance & Regulation
Make the decision trail reconstructable
Registers, lineage and audit trails the risk team maintains without us.
Operations & Performance
Measure operations where they happen
Onboarding, servicing and collections timed at the point of work.
Digital & AI
Put models into production properly
Thresholds agreed before launch, an owner, a rollback.
Agree the number before the work starts.
The audit / four weeks
A.01One figure, agreed in writing before any work
A.02£45–65k, fixed, whatever the audit finds
A.03It prices the stage after it, so nothing is bought blind