Build the business case. Design the ecosystem. Align the stakeholders.
Strategic advisory for organisations that want to stop solving every new ecosystem problem from scratch. We help you justify the investment, design the trust framework, and create the operating model for scalable ecosystem growth. We've advised central banks, regulators, and G20 financial institutions.
Advisory for organisations that want to stop rebuilding
We help you justify the investment, design the ecosystem, and create the operating model for scalable growth — so every new use case layers onto what you've already built.
Market Education & Training
Upskill your teams on the standards, technology, policy, and international precedents that shape modern data-sharing ecosystems.
Includes
- Tailored training programmes for executives, regulators, and technical teams
- International implementation case studies and lessons learned
- Standards education: FAPI, OpenID, OAuth, PKI, federation
- Regulatory and policy landscape analysis
- Workshop delivery for boards, steering committees, and working groups
Strategic Support
Navigate the strategic decisions that define your ecosystem: operating model, governance, roles, scope, phasing, and stakeholder alignment.
Includes
- Ecosystem role definition and operating model design
- Target operating state analysis
- Use case identification and prioritisation
- Market assessment and competitive landscape
- Stakeholder mapping and engagement strategy
- Business case development support
Ecosystem Design
Design the governance, rules, standards, and trust framework that your ecosystem needs — before a single line of code is written.
Includes
- Trust framework architecture and governance design
- Rules and policy development
- Technology mapping and standards selection
- Security profile and certification requirements design
- Participant requirements and onboarding model
- Cross-sector and cross-border interoperability planning
Advisory for every stage of the build-once journey
Governments & Regulators
Designing new mandates, frameworks, or data-sharing legislation. We help shape the policy, governance, and technical foundations.
Central Banks & National Schemes
Building or scaling national ecosystems. We bring the experience of Brazil, UK, Australia, UAE, and New Zealand.
Financial Institutions
Preparing for participation in new ecosystems. We help banks understand their role, obligations, and opportunities.
Consortia & Trade Bodies
Coordinating multi-party trust. We facilitate the conversations and design the frameworks that make collaboration work.
Led by Charlotte Crosswell OBE, former Chair of Open Banking UK — our advisory team has shaped trust frameworks across five countries.
Proven with central banks and regulators worldwide
Central Bank of Brazil
Advised on ecosystem design for the world’s largest open finance programme
ASFI Bolivia
Training programme for 60 senior executives, facilitated through the British Embassy and UK DBT
Australia ConnectID
Supported trust framework design for bank-led digital identity
UAE Central Bank
Ecosystem design advisory for open finance
New Zealand NZBA
Trust framework advisory for Confirmation of Payee
Shape it. Build it. Launch it. Expand.
Advise shapes the ecosystem — strategy, education, governance, and design. Enable and Connect build it — implementation services, accelerators, and the platform. Assure and parts of Enable launch and run it — conformance testing, certification, and ongoing operational support.
From first conversation to delivery
Discovery call
A 60-minute conversation to understand your ecosystem, mandate, and stakeholders. No commitment.
Scoping workshop
A structured half-day workshop to define the advisory engagement scope, deliverables, and timeline.
Advisory programme
Tailored delivery — from a focused 2-week strategy sprint to a 6-month embedded advisory programme.
Ready to build the business case for your ecosystem?
Whether you're a regulator exploring a new mandate, a bank looking to platformise, or a consortium defining industry standards — we help you justify the investment in building once.