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We are excited to announce that Duncan Macdonald has joined NextWave as an Associate Partner, specialising in Automation and Business Process Management. With over 20 years of industry experience and deep expertise in low-code automation and BPM, Duncan will contribute to our growing efforts to ...

We are excited to welcome Amanda Estiverne-Colas as the newest Partner at NextWave Americas, where she will focus on Retail Banking and Payments. With her vast experience in driving digital transformation and innovation within the payments ecosystem, Amanda will be instrumental in building and ...

Today we come to you with some big news! We're delighted to announce that Tony Clark, NextWave Founder and CEO is officially the new host of the London Fintech Podcast, invented in 2014 by former founder and host Mike Baliman.

Yesterday (13 June) saw NextWave Consulting announced as finalists in the in the Digital Transformation category of The Consultancy Awards 2024!

FinTech Bytes by CMS is a podcast which gives listeners a ‘bite-sized’ overview of topics affecting the FinTech market and provides insights into some of the latest tech, regulatory, market trends and issues affecting innovation in financial services and how they are relevant to FinTechs. In the ...

24th April 2024 London, UK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Release NextWave Consulting, the digital acceleration consultancy, and Strategy in Action, a leader in the field of strategy formulation and execution, are proud to announce their partnership, which will be focused on training and empowering ...

Our upcoming webinar with Strategy in Action, we will be mapping strategic journeys from vision to value and teaching leaders how to set and execute a successful strategy for their organisation to empower sustainable growth and scale. The webinar will demonstrate the importance of driving strategic ...

7th March 2024 London, UK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Release: NextWave Consulting and PortF win an Innovate UK grant, partnering to help financial institutions better manage, track and convert their commercial, ESG and impact data We’re delighted to announce that NextWave Consulting and PortF have ...

We’re thrilled that NextWave has been listed as one of the 2024 Megabuyte Emerging Stars – one of the UK’s most promising tech scale-ups, ranking in the top 5% nationwide and drawn from a list of 1,200 qualifying companies.

12th March 2024 London, UK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Release: NextWave Consulting Expands Digital Transformation Capabilities with New Entity in India, Waivgen NextWave Consulting, a leading provider of digital transformation capabilities headquartered in the United Kingdom, is excited to ...

We are delighted to have participated in a Lexology Masterclass on the future of AI in financial services, delivered in collaboration with CMS. In this webinar, Tony Clark, Founder and CEO of NextWave Consulting, and the CMS Regulatory experts, Tom Callaby, Sarah Brook and Joy Davey offered ...

We are delighted to announce the newest addition to our team, Commercial Partner, Tom Hutchings. With over a decade of experience working in financial services consulting, and with a wide network across the market and financial institutions, Tom will be responsible for developing and maintaining ...

A common challenge that financial institutions grapple with is the kind of approach they should take towards ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and sustainable finance in order to maintain their position as a market leader. Our advice for financial institutions is to begin by focusing on ...

At NextWave, we believe in playing the long game for success, a principle that inspires our interactions with colleagues, clients, and partners, focused on growth and mutual success. Today, we are delighted to announce our newest leadership addition, Managing Partner Natalie Behan. With over a ...

This is the first in a series of articles helping to shed some light on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (commonly known as AI). This first article will focus on providing some insight into the different types of techniques that sit under the broader AI umbrella. We discuss the key differences ...

Recently, one of our forward thinking clients, a global bank, asked our UK office to undergo an EcoVadis sustainability assessment and to establish a number of policies, changing our ways of working in the process. As a result of this, NextWave was awarded a Silver EcoVadis Medal for ...

Knowing your customer (KYC) has never been more important. To gain an edge, you need improved operational efficiency, agility and speed, better threat protection, and enhanced customer experiences. However, processes are often periodic and do not provide a near real time, complete and dynamic view. ...

We’re thrilled that NextWave has been listed as one of the fastest growing companies in the UK on the prestigious Sunday Times Hundred, which will be published in the business section on Sunday 2nd July.

This article explores the critical role that Product Owners play in a Scrum project, highlighting their key responsibilities as well as some potential pitfalls for inexperienced Product Owners.

Regulators are starting to clamp down on greenwashing. Until recently, there was very little oversight of how ESG funds are marketed, but in May 2022, the SEC fined BNY Mellon Investment Adviser US$1.5m for “misstatements and omissions” with regard to the ESG standards of some of its mutual funds.1 ...

This article explores the current landscape of ESG data collection and reporting, and highlights five key challenges presented by these new regulatory requirements.

Banks have endured a turbulent ride over the past 15 years. Markets have evolved, margins have been squeezed and regulation has dictated the terms of engagement (think mandatory clearing and mandatory reporting). Certain functions of the traditional global markets infrastructure, namely Fixed ...

Regulatory horizon scanning is a process of monitoring and analysing emerging regulatory developments that could impact an organisation's operations or industry. This involves keeping up-to-date with regulatory changes, upcoming legislation, and policy initiatives, and analysing the potential ...

If you are carrying out wholesale lending, it is important for your risk profile and your firm's ESG strategy to evaluate the green credentials of your potential borrowers at the start of the lending process.

A summary of how NextWave has become a winner in the Sunday Times best place to work awards 2023.

As businesses grow, they often reach a point where they need to change the way they operate if they want to continue to be successful. Things that worked well for an organisation in the past when it was smaller may not always be effective in the future. Effective business leaders recognise this and ...

An overview of ESG risks in the financial sector Perspectives / An Overview of ESG regulation for EU based financial institutions

NLP and Artificial Intelligence Perspectives / Automating first line support using natural language processing Improving the customer experience can do done quickly and at a low cost when using NLP and Artificial Intelligence The problem The tried and tested approach for either a front-line support ...

How ESG related decisions will drive the future of finance Perspectives / How ESG Will Drive The Future Of Finance

Insight into how technology will change roles and responsibilities

What can senior financial services executives do now to take advantage of the current opportunities and mitigate the potential threats of digital transformation? Perspectives / Interview with Tony Clark, CEO of NextWave UK Research suggests that tier 1 global financial services firms are already ...

Tony Clark, our UK CEO talks future tech with Citi Perspectives / Interview with Tony Clark, CEO of NextWave

Effectively managing lending during the COVID pandemic Perspectives / Dear CEO COVID lending practices

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”Skinny services deal to go please” Perspectives / Brexit and delivering services

The implications of the EU/UK Trade Agreement for UK service providers

Climate litigation – more relevant than ever Perspectives / ESG

A global pandemic, the rise of zombie companies, civil unrest, Brexit & ESG. Definitely not boring! Perspectives / 2021...What Happens Next?

How Model Risk Manager can help your business Perspectives / What is Model Risk Manager?

NextWave has partnered with Quantexa to identify the different types of prevalent fraud Perspectives / Fraud during COVID

Working with Quantexa to identify fraud during COVID Perspectives / Trade commodity finance

As banks are instructed to make further loan support schemes available to clients – credit, risk and portfolio managers have a lot on their minds Perspectives / Credit risk and COVID

How to work better, together in these difficult times Perspectives / Working Better, Together

How to organise effective social events during COVID Perspectives / Organising an event during COVID