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31 March 2025
Steering clear of roadblocks: change pitfalls to avoidEmbarking on major change initiatives without effective planning often leads to setbacks. While strategy may define the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ to change, neglecting the ‘how’ can hinder success. Despite this, many change programmes move into the implementation phase without sufficient planning and suffer the consequences. Ewen Fleming, Consulting Partner, explains further.
06 November 2024
M&A high on the agenda for the majority of financial services firms, new survey findsMore than nine in 10 financial services firms are considering mergers and acquisitions as a means of growth, according to a new UK survey conducted by leading independent accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael.
Ewen Fleming & Rob Sargent
12 June 2024
Around the room: What we’ve heard about the Consumer Duty Board ReportAs regulated firms finalise their first Consumer Duty Board Reports, which set out their firm’s position in embedding the new Consumer Duty, many executives and non-executives are grappling with what that means in practice.
Simon Cavell & Ilke Barutcu-Cesaret
01 March 2024
Every cloud has a silver lining: How technology is revolutionising e-commerce paymentsIt’s now 30 years since a team of cyberspace entrepreneurs sold a CD by Sting in August 1994 – the first ever online purchase! The launch of Amazon as a book retailer (1995), Alibaba as an online marketplace (1999) and Google’s pay-per-click advertising capability (2000) would quickly follow.
12 February 2024
Seeing the bigger picture: Drawing conclusions from Consumer DutyConsumer Duty has long felt like a Roman mosaic, with individual elements representing carefully-crafted parts of a much broader story. The breadth of topics covered has already led firms to comprehensively review all aspects of their customers’ journey. Now, the various tiles are starting to slot together and, as they align, a bigger picture is starting to emerge.
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