Financial Services: Consultant - Andrew McIntee
Financial Services Practice wins two major new accounts
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
I am delighted to announce that in recent weeks the Financial Services Practice at Interim Partners has been awarded a substantial contract with RSA to supply interim change professionals for the next 2 years.
RSA is a FTSE 100 insurance business with £6.5bn of annual premium income and they are implementing large scale transformation programmes [...]
Scramble for Risk Managers Boosts Their Pay - Financial Times 17th November 2009
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
A rush by financial services companies to hire interim managers who specialise in risk and compliance work has driven their pay up by 50 per cent over the past two years, according to a leading provider of such managers.
Interim managers with risk and compliance experience were typically earning up to £1,000 per day before the [...]
Financial Services Practice Expands
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Interim Partners has recently launched Brightpool, a recruitment business which focuses on placing contractors to deliver change and provide resource support to our interim managers.
I am delighted to welcome Helen Storey to the financial services practice who specialises in the Human Resources contract market in the North. Helen brings a wealth of experience gained [...]
Lies, damn lies and….
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Statistics from the IMA quarterly survey contributed to by 29 provider members show the much discussed anecdotal evidence of green shoots in the market to be true after all. There has been an 11% increase in the number of assignments completed by providers in quarter 2, 548 up from 493 in quarter 1. The average [...]
FT: “Tories stifle FSA Staffing Drive”
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Following on from my previous blog entry discussing the Conservative party’s intention to abolish the FSA, I read with interest the lead article on the front page of the FT on Monday with the headline “Tories stifle FSA staffing drive”. It is no surprise that the FSA’s aggressive hiring plans have been thwarted as applicants [...]
Summer Update
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Recent weeks have proved highly fruitful for the financial services practice at Interim Partners. The clouds have parted and the summer sun is shining once more after a remarkably lengthy storm. Levels of interim placements have risen, client instructions are increasing and I am experiencing regular sightings of that up to now rarest of species [...]
Tesco Personal Finance - A New Player in Store?
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Tesco’s has successfully secured a beachhead in the financial services arena and the far-sighted Sir Terry Leahy has every reason to expect big things. Benny Higgins, Shaun Doherty et al have excellent track records within RBS and HBOS and have a thorough understanding of the retail banking market. Coupled with the deep financial resources, instant [...]
Enough to go around
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
I have taken much heart from listening to some interesting speakers of late. I had the pleasure of attending the annual Fast Track dinner at Richard Branson’s house recently and one of the speakers was Dennis Turner the Chief Economist of HSBC. He gave a highly charismatic lecture (for an economist!) and concluded that the [...]
A good first quarter in the bank
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The end of a very eventful first quarter in the financial services has now been and gone. There are some encouraging signs from the sector although it is still very early days and banking is still in intensive care. Barclays stood up to scrutiny by the FSA who said they would not need additional funding, [...]
Financial Services Discussion Group
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Happy New Year to you from the Financial Services Practice at Interim Partners. I’m sure many of you (myself included) will be delighted to see the back of 2008 which I’m sure will go down in history as the darkest year in our sector for generations.
2008 was a year where the unthinkable became the reality; [...]
