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NextWave is a Fintech consultancy – building better financial services through combining deep industry practitioner expertise with new-stack digital technology solutions.

We help the world’s leading Financial Services firms digitally transform their businesses, navigate the FinTech eco-system and build business solutions on the latest data and automation platform technologies.

Superpowers

  • Business outcomes – leveraging solution architectures and technology for the business
  • Our people – Agility, New talent and MD level FS experience
  • Delivery – for our clients, our partners and our people

Keywords

  • Consulting
  • Data Intelligence
  • Automation
  • CIO Advisory
  • Strategy
  • Fintech solutions

Who we are

Our leadership has a unique blend of top-tier industry, consultancy and enterprise delivery and commercial experience, across the business and technology sectors at some of the world’s largest banks, asset managers and Fintechs.

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    Tony Clark
    CEO and Founder
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    Tony is the founder of NextWave Consulting and has 30 years of big-firm consultancy, startup, and enterprise experience across business, digital and technology, working with some of the world’s leading banks and financial institutions. Tony has scaled consulting practices of up to 950 heads and been part of several consulting acquisitions on both the sell and buy side. He is a passionate advocate and industry speaker on all things digital, an advisor to several London fintechs and a mentor to aspiring professionals at Generation Success events.
    • Solutioning for Financial Services
    • FinTech partnerships for commercial value
    • Leading consulting companies for growth
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    Iain Ivey
    Co-Founder, Head of Data Practice
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    Iain is a founding partner of NextWave and has 30 years of Financial Services experience in business change, technology delivery, data and architecture; across Finance, Risk, Operations and Front Office. Iain held senior roles in Technology and Global Markets Operations at HSBC for 11 years and prior to that was a Partner at Detica / m.a.partners (niche Financial Markets consultancy).
    • Technology and business change across multiple functions
    • A specialist in shaping and managing strategic large-scale programmes
    • Simplifying complex scenarios and managing conflicts to enable delivery.
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    David Aston
    Founder, Head of Europe
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    With a career in Financial Markets that spans more than 25 years, David has an extensive track record of successfully delivering highly complex, high-profile transformation programs for tier-1 banks. Combining his passion for Finance with a strong entrepreneurial drive, David has played leading roles in helping to launch, build and scale niche consultancies, growing businesses to in excess of 150 FTE, across multiple locations.
    • Large scale transformation & board level advisory roles
    • Applying the latest technologies to specific FS-focused use cases
    • Speaks English, French, Dutch and Italian.
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    Charles Rustin
    Founding Partner, Chief Growth Officer
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    Charles is Founding Commercial Partner & Chief Growth Officer at NextWave, responsible for developing key client and partner relationships while guiding the strategic growth and people agenda of the business. Charles has 20+ years' consultancy experience in financial services across Banking, Asset & Wealth Management and Insurance.
    • Advisory to C-Suite & Senior Leadership
    • Building high-performing teams
    • Mentoring new talent and coaching for growth
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    Phil Kent
    Partner, Head of Digital & Automation Practice
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    Phil has 20 years+ Financial Services experience delivering business transformation and process excellence across leading European banks including HSBC, Credit Suisse and Santander. Phil most recently led the transformation portfolio for the global business CFO’s at HSBC including Product Control. Prior to this at Credit Suisse, Phil held leadership roles including Derivatives IT, Trade Management IT and European CIO for the Investment Bank.
    • Front-back industry expertise covering e-Commerce, Trading Risk & Pricing & Risk, Finance, Product Control, Reference Data
    • Digital product ownership & transformation
    • Automation & Data science
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    Stuart Duncan
    Partner, Business Transformation
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    Stuart has 25 years of experience in top-tier global banks including Barclays and Credit Suisse and has successfully led global change programmes and portfolios with annual budgets of £100 - £200m. At Barclays he held MD level change management roles in Risk, Finance and Technology including Head of Risk and Finance Strategic Change and Head of Finance Change. Stuart is recognised for being highly organised, execution-focused and data-driven and has delivered on multi-jurisdiction global change programmes across Regulation, Risk & Finance.
    • Regulation, Risk & Finance
    • Delivery of multi-jurisdiction global change programmes
    • Highly organised, execution-focused and data-driven
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    Kirstie Galloway
    Partner, Business Transformation
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    Kirstie has 30 years financial services experience in business change, technology delivery and transformation within top-tier Investment Banking and Asset Management Institutions including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and HSBC. Kirstie was the CIO of HSBC Asset Management for over 3 years and has also held a variety of senior Global Head of IT roles on the sell-side at HSBC including global responsibility for KYC / client onboarding, compliance, financial crime, data, global market sales and research and operational utilities.
    • Creativity & forward thinking
    • Results-driven transformation
    • Leadership and management of global technology portfolios and functions.

Testimonials

  • “You have an amazing team!” CIO, Award-winning Digital Insurer
  • “Nextwave is the winner of the Appian Innovation Award for creating and delivering innovative Finance of the Future and Model Risk Management solutions for some of the world’s largest banks, asset managers, and Fintechs on the Appian platform”.
    Appian Corporation
  • “NextWave is a key strategic partner for Quantexa” CEO, QuantexaCEO, Quantexa
  • “Nobody else could provide these skills that Nextwave has”
    Tier 1 Global Commercial Bank, Wholesale Lending IT Programme Director

Advantages

  • NextWave Digital Maturity Assessment
    The NextWave Digital Maturity assessment is an online (or workshop-delivered) benchmark that will help you accurately assess the digital maturity across multiple dimensions of your business.

    The assessment is free of charge and takes 30-40 minutes. We will send you a custom-built report, which will provide a set of maturity scores based on the NextWave Digital Maturity expert model and which will also include a set of recommendations and next steps.

    We will be happy to offer a post-survey review and walk through with you to better understand your assessment report findings, comparisons to market and the associated recommendations.

    https://www.nxwave.com/assessments/
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