History
Accourt was founded in London in 2001 to provide both strategic and operational consulting services for the financial services industry. Our style of small focused teams led by industry experts soon earned us a positive reputation in the marketplace; we expanded into Europe shortly afterwards in 2002.
Approach
Based in London and working almost exclusively across the UK and continental Europe, Accourt is a leading provider of consulting services to the financial services industry. Our local market knowledge, combined with our trademark of deploying small, highly effective teams with real life experience, ensures the successful outcomes of client assignments. As dedicated practitioners in the financial services space, our key focus is to assist clients to develop and implement strategies that will improve their operational performance:
- Business Transformation - we support clients to develop their business strategy by deploying our commercial and technical expertise from requirements gathering and process design, to enterprise architecture, programme and project management, technology selection and development, right through to implementation.
- Product and Market Development - we assist financial institutions in realising new opportunities through the development of entry strategies, financial business cases, competitive reviews and implementation plans. Our consultants and research teams bring international experience combined with local market insights to help our clients navigate the political and commercial landscape.
- Specialist and Niche Consulting Services - we provide the financial services industry with expertise to mitigate the risk of regulatory and compliance issues, covering ECB directives as well as Visa and MasterCard compliance. Our consultants have specific in-depth expertise in all areas of financial services, focusing on the retail banking systems covering card management, merchant acquiring and money transmission.
Why Accourt?
At Accourt, we aim to make a powerful, positive difference to our clients' futures by providing small teams of high calibre, high performance individuals.
We are open and honest with our clients bringing real P&L expertise, knowledge, drive, energy and pace, going the extra mile to ensure they are delighted with their decision to use Accourt.