Our Experience
Our consultants have successfully delivered a wide variety of consulting assignments.  An overview of some of these projects is given below

Leading UK Banks
  • Credit card fraud detection system scoping study for the development of an advanced decision support system for identifying fraud connected with a new credit card product;
  • Credit card fraud detection system development.  Now in daily live operation, the decisioning system is one of a suite of decision support systems running on a high performance symmetric multiprocessing computer connected to a corporate data warehouse;
  • Money laundering compliance review of a Top 5 UK bank money laundering compliance procedures and make recommendations for a best practice procedural and technical response;
  • Fraud write-off automation and fraud intelligence automation to help improve the way the bank deals with fraud write-off transactions;
  • Automated referred payment decisioning solution to increase the level straight-through processing in cheque clearing;
  • Advice to a Private Bank on the best way forward in automated credit risk management as part of the bank’s introduction of two new channels, Call Centre and Internet Banking.
Finance Houses
  • Automated credit vetting process using knowledge-based enhancements to existing behavioural scoring techniques for a consumer retail finance house
  • Automated underwriting for an asset-based finance organisation
Leading European Financial Institutions
  • Major Swiss Bank — IT services process improvement based on the ITIL government standard for service management and shared service centre disciplines;
  • Swiss Data Provider — Review of the efficiency and effectiveness of the IT department.  Improvement of the Change Management IT services process;
  • Major Greek Bank — Definition of new IT strategy and infrastructure to support a 24x7 multi-channel banking service, as part of a programme of reengineering their IT services;
  • Swiss Insurance Organisation — IT infrastructure review as part of a merger with a retail bank;
  • Swedish Post — Project management of the technical architecture for a Retail Branch Delivery System;
  • Dutch Bank — Project management of the technical architecture for a new client/server banking platform;
Leading Insurance Companies
  • Definition of systems and processes for new personal investment products and services, including advice on Customer authentication and verification, for a global Insurance company as part of their development of an innovative new business-to-consumer internet-based wealth management service;
  • Defining the IT infrastructure as part of a major programme to support insurance company’s strategic business objectives;
  • Design and development of a knowledge-based customer file de-duplication system for automated cleanup of an insurance group’s Central Customer File;
  • Advice on the technical architecture for the integration of the legacy applications for a major insurance company.
Global Asset Management Companies
  • Automated compliance checking decisioning system for the compliance department to automate fund restriction checking based on available data on all funds;
  • Global IT strategy development;
  • Data warehousing strategy based around reusable components in different geographies;
Non-financial Organisations
  • Definition and implementation of major UK Government advanced technology transfer programmes;
  • Definition and implementation of the change management programme associated with the introduction of new technology for a UK Government department;
  • Assessment of the impact of EMU on the products and services business for a global Integration Services organisation;
  • Definition of a Service Excellence programme for promoting and assessing Best Practice among customers of a global Integration Services organisation.
For more details of any of these assignments please email us at knowledge@knowco.co.uk

       

 
 
 
 
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