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In the wake of Friday’s cyber attack, I wanted to quickly explain exactly what’s happened and show how you can protect your own organisation. The attack took the form of a rapidly spreading piece of ransomware. Ransomware is malicious software which locks up your computer, making it impossible to use unless you send money to…

The first Cocktails With Kind event was a great success, sincere thanks to all who attended and told us how much they enjoyed it. Special thanks to Phil Ryan of the International Compliance Association for his thought-provoking and entertaining talk on the future of the Compliance industry, which inspired a lot of interesting discussions across…

Having spent the year so far focussing closely on the intermediary and bridging finance markets, I’ve been having a number of conversations with people across the industry about what they’ve been seeing in 2017 and how they think the alternative lending sector will do across the rest of the year. The latest data from Bridging…

Kind Consultancy is an executive search and headhunting organisation with whom I work closely. They are experts in Governance, Risk & Compliance and have built a reputation over the last 5 years with their outstanding customer service and their ability to quickly find game-changing top tier talent for complex, technical roles. Having excelled in that…

In my last blog for Kind Consultancy I discussed the ongoing popularity of interim projects within the world of Governance, Risk & Compliance, especially in relation to large organisations converting their processes and procedures in order to meet new regulations. With no sign of this trend slowing down, I wanted to highlight another way in…

The most recent statistics from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association suggest that brokers are finding it easier to source mortgages now than at any time since the Mortgage Market Review of April 2014. Back in 2015, a year on from the introduction of the biggest change to mortgage regulations in decades, only 15% of brokers…

There are a lot of things that set Kind Consultancy apart from other executive search and recruitment firms, and one that is particularly important to me is our Partnership Approach. Rather than simply pick up vacancies and fill them, we like to partner with our clients, developing a strong, ongoing relationship that allows us to…

At the end of each quarter, the entire Kind Group comes together to update our clients on what we’ve been up to and what we’re looking to do next, covering our business, social and charity activities. You can read details of the success that Kind Consultancy, Kind Financial Services, Kind Commercial and Kind Wealth have…

Here at Kind Consultancy, the Governance, Risk & Compliance team have a successful track record in helping our clients prepare for specific regulatory changes, recently helping their clients across financial services and banking with SMR and MiFID II. We’re now working together across the GRC and Information Security teams on our first joint project –…