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Compliance Consultant – Section 166

An established Consumer Credit firm reached out to Kind for support to help them work with the regulator following a Section 166 notice being issued.  This involved providing them with one of our experienced compliance consultants, to work with the senior management team on the appointment of a Skilled Person. In addition to our consultant, […]

Head of Compliance – SMF16

Kind Consultancy was approached by the Chief Risk Officer of a challenger bank who was seeking to identify a new Head of Compliance following the previous incumbent moving on from the business. The Kind team had a face-to-face meeting with the CRO, taking a full brief of the role and building an understanding of the […]

Compliance Monitoring Manager

A growing challenger bank approached Kind Consultancy with a need to recruit a permanent Compliance Monitoring Manager. They had previously attempted to fill the role themselves and had been turned down by both candidates they had offered. The bank’s headquarters was not in a major city, and the location had been a sticking point for […]

Underwriters

Kind Consultancy have a long working relationship with a large building society, who were experiencing an increase in applications and simultaneously launching multiple new products. To keep up with the rate of activity, they were looking for 2 permanent underwriters. Kind Consultancy used a consultative approach, taking the job specification and discussing with the client […]

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 […]

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