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Ewen Fleming

Ewen Fleming

Partner - Financial Services Advisory

08 January 2021

  • Financial Services
Banking in a cashless society

‘Card payments only’. ‘Contactless preferred’. ‘No cash accepted’. These phrases will be familiar to anyone who has ventured out to the shops since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. While businesses have embraced big change in an effort to protect staff and reduce unnecessary physical contact; ‘small change’ has suffered the opposite fate.

Ewen Fleming

Ewen Fleming

Partner - Financial Services Advisory

17 December 2020

  • Financial Services
Hype or hope? – The true value of a brand

A brand can be hugely instrumental to the success or failure of a firm yet it is something that is sometimes seen only as the preserve of the Big Corporates.

Ewen Fleming

Ewen Fleming

Partner - Financial Services Advisory

19 November 2020

  • Financial Services
COVID could spell the end for smaller banks – but the Big Five must learn from them first

It’s difficult to adequately explain the scale of the economic challenges brought on by COVID-19, but tectonic is probably about as close as you’ll get. Like the shifting continental plates beneath our feet, the very structure of the economy is moving and reshaping due to the coronavirus pandemic. All sectors will have to adapt to these changes, but it is particularly important that the banking sector is prepared.

Scott Holmes

Scott Holmes

Audit & Assurance Partner

27 October 2020

  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
European MiFID Template Version 3 – is your investment firm ready for the December deadline?

Just six weeks to go until the end of the transition period and the new European MiFID Template comes into force for all investment firms operating within the EU. With some distributors requesting the revised format already, we’re helping a large number of our clients make the switch to the new template now. Scott Holmes, Audit Partner, discusses the new requirements in this short blog.

Ewen Fleming

Ewen Fleming

Partner - Financial Services Advisory

17 April 2020

  • Financial Services
  • Coronavirus
Coronavirus - a catalyst for change in the banking industry

Our latest whitepaper sets out how banking business models have evolved since the financial crisis, the likely impacts on current business models from COVID-19 and the strategies that UK banks and building societies should be considering to create resilient future business models.

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