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Interim Deputy CRO

One of the largest groups of Financial Services Mortgage & Protection Networks in the UK contacted Kind Consultancy seeking an Interim Deputy Chief Risk Officer. The organisation had recently acquired a new company and needed extra specialist resource to support the Enterprise Risk framework and function during the transitional period. Kind Consultancy immediately contacted one […]

Prudential & Credit Risk

A Building Society contacted Kind Consultancy looking to recruit a permanent Risk Manager who would be predominantly responsible for Prudential Risk and Credit Risk Management. The client wanted to run the search as a retained project, because they had worked with Kind on a recurring retained basis in the past and we had been successful […]

Internal Audit Team

The Chief Internal Auditor at an International Bank contacted Kind Consultancy looking to build out the Internal Audit team for their recently-expanded UK Bank. With a full team needing to be provided, we used a mix of methodologies, looking at industry-best specialists who were already known to us, active candidates in the marketplace, and identifying […]

Internal Audit – Prudential Risk

Kind Consultancy was contacted by the Chief Internal Auditor for the UK division of international bank which was having difficulty identifying an Internal Auditor with specific Prudential Risk knowledge and expertise. They were unable to use external agencies for permanent hires and this was a business critical role. As such they turned to Kind Consultancy, […]

Vulnerable Customers

One of our clients, a consumer finance business, reached out to us as they were experiencing a substantial increase in the number of Vulnerable Customers and associated complaint cases. The scale of the increase and the need for specialist skills was beyond their existing resource. We worked with the client to make a plan – […]

Checking In On Fair Value Preparations

Earlier this month the FCA published their findings from a review of Fair Value frameworks. Fair Value is one of the 4 outcomes on which firms will be assessed under Consumer Duty when it comes into effect in July. To help establish the regulator’s expectations, the FCA is providing feedback based on organisations’ proposals. For […]

What Are the 2023 IR35 Rule Changes?

If you’re a contractor in the UK, you’ve probably been paying close attention to discussions about the IR35 rules and have probably read and seen reports of possible IR35 rule changes set to happen in 2023. But what are the rule changes and how will they effect you? IR35 is not changing in 2023. In […]

A Review Of The Year 2022

Kind Consultancy – The Year in Review 2022  As we head towards the end of the year, I wanted to take a look back at what 2022 has been like for both the recruitment world and for our clients in the Financial Services GRC space.  Regulations Most years we see different themes come to the […]

As demands on Customer Care teams rise, is automation the answer?

It’s clear now, in the winter of 2022, that the cost of living crisis is real, and is not going away any time soon. A variety of complex, interlocking factors is driving up prices, with the increases hitting especially hard for household essentials and energy bills. Ofgem has said this week that energy firms are […]

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