Operational resilience

Around the world, regulators are placing an increased priority on financial services firms’ operational resilience. T. Rowe Price, a global investment manager, wanted to proactively prepare for UK regulatory requirements, while developing a culture of resilience across the firm. We helped them to meet UK requirements for five services in just 14 weeks and empowered internal teams to independently address the remaining services with new skills.

AIB is one of Ireland’s major retail banks serving personal, business and corporate customers, offers a growing range of innovative, digital services for customers. To keep these services secure and future-proof the bank for growth, AIB needs to continually strengthen its cyber security stance. We developed a robust and innovative procurement process to enable the bank to select a strategic partner to meet this challenge.

Anglo American’s Woodsmith Project – the construction of a new fertiliser development – has the potential to transform the regional economy in the North of England. Bringing deep expertise in economic development, technology and innovation, and supply chain, we identified wide-ranging opportunities for Anglo American to collaborate with local partners to boost existing growth initiatives.

OneSavings Bank, a UK firm with a 150 year heritage, takes its regulatory and business responsibilities very seriously. We helped the firm undertake an operational resilience programme to evaluate its ability to respond to operational and financial crises.

Tesco Bank has ambitious plans for their digital services in the next few years and wanted to be sure their resilience strategy would continue to be effective. They asked PA to assess their resilience strategy, policy and controls for withstanding shocks, like cyber attacks, vendor failure and natural disasters.

PA Consulting’s Louise Barber, cyber security expert, comments research showing that boards and CISOs in UK companies are at odds with each other on cyber security threats.

PA Consulting’s Cate Pye and Fraser Nicol, cyber security experts, comment on the key cybersecurity considerations under M&A deals.

New technologies can address concerns about the cost impact of hydrogen leakage. There’s an opportunity for companies to get ahead of this issue before projects, infrastructure, and systems are deployed.

PA Consulting's Sara Ulrich, resilience and wargaming expert, talks transport resilience.