Financial services & private equity

Amplify success with the right IT and technology.

Financial services and private equity are complex sectors, with stringent security and compliance requirements. And in both cases it’s absolutely critical to be efficient about data and reporting.

Freeman Clarke IT leaders have deep experience in helping financial services businesses serve their customers and grow, and in helping businesses on either side of a PE transaction. We’re also extremely knowledgable about the connection between smoothly functioning IT systems and value.

Find out how we’ve helped businesses in these complicated sectors prepare for success.

New financial services white paper: Solving cyber security and compliance risks

New financial services white paper: Solving cyber security and compliance risks

Let’s be real. Cyber security and compliance should be ongoing concerns for CEOs. But they shouldn’t keep you up at...

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Cyber and compliance concerns

Cyber and compliance concerns

In this brief video, Freeman Clarke CEO Graeme Freeman and our experts talk about cyber security and compliance. CIO/CTO Madhu Bhabuta,...

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Private Equity

PE firms are driven by valuations, and these days IT and technology are at the heart of business value. So...

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Attivo

'Leveraging digital technologies to win and serve clients, and to drive and maintain further efficiency, is at the core of future growth and value' Read more

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Financial services: How to succeed this year (and beyond)

Financial services: How to succeed this year (and beyond)

The financial services sector is a core element of every modern economy. Every institution you can think of is dependent...

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Part I: Security and compliance

Part I: Security and compliance

Let’s start on a positive note: when it comes to the UK mid-market financial services sector, we are bullish. It...

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Assetz Capital

‘Freeman Clarke’s Principal shored up cyber security and improved communication between teams, so that the tech strategy supported the business goals, and the business team had a better grasp of technical issues’ Read more

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Don’t run your business on Excel

Don’t run your business on Excel

Excel is incredibly popular, and with good reason: it's cheap, it's useful, and it's easy to use. You still shouldn't...

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Our Principals

Meet the UK's most experienced team of CIOs, CTOs and IT Directors who deliver technology strategies that help mid-markets business...

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YFM Equity Partners

'Freeman Clarke have implemented substantial improvements in YFM’s IT infrastructure, cyber resilience and systems controls' Read more

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Part II: Back office streamlining

Part II: Back office streamlining

Why you should streamline, and why you should start now Mid-market financial service businesses are hampered by unnecessary complexity. One...

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Spreadsheet issues in mid-market businesses

Spreadsheet issues in mid-market businesses

In this brief video, Freeman Clarke CEO Graeme Freeman and our experts talk spreadsheet issues—how they come up, how they...

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Quipsound

'We would not be where we are now without Freeman Clarke's guidance and support'  Read more

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Part III: Get digital inside and out

Part III: Get digital inside and out

Get Digital Inside and Out We have been doing a lot of thinking about success in mid-market financial services. If...

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Part IV: Disruption and new digital customer experience

Part IV: Disruption and new digital customer experience

Fintech, disruption and the digital customer experience The Ant Group, a Chinese fintech company, was poised to become the largest...

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Simplify Digital

'Freeman Clarke were crucial to the successful transformation of our IT' Read more

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Part V: A conversation with IT leaders

Part V: A conversation with IT leaders

Mid-market Financial Services: Top Priorities What do ambitious midmarket financial services businesses need to focus on in the coming months?...

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Focus on private equity

Focus on private equity

Private Equity ownership in the mid-market is increasingly significant. And as you know, PE is all about driving business value,...

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Bonhill Group plc

'We needed best-in-class technology leadership in the US and the UK, and so we contacted Freeman Clarke' Read more

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How systems and digital drive business value for private equity (PE)

How systems and digital drive business value for private equity (PE)

Private Equity (PE) ownership of mid-market companies is increasing. Of course, PE houses are driven by valuations and these days...

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Minimise risk & maximise value – Private equity video series I

Private equity series I - Adam Shapiro of Yahoo! Finance leads a discussion with experts in Technology, Finance, Legal, PE...

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X-Chem

'The Freeman Clarke team are shaping a new vision for our IT, which will significantly contribute to the value of the business' Read more

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Integration & collaboration – Private equity video series II

Private equity series II - Adam Shapiro of Yahoo! Finance leads a discussion with experts in Technology, Finance, Legal, PE...

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Free IT Assessment for Growth

Get your free IT assessment for growth. It’s a brief, efficient discussion about your current IT systems, business applications, data,...

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Validant

‘The support we received from Freeman Clarke helped expedite and elevate our IT integration transformation project' Read more

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Financial Services

Transform and protect your business. The ultimate question for mid-market financial services businesses is quite simple: Given all the uncertainty,...

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Oxitec

'Our involvement with Freeman Clarke came at a crucial phase. We needed a serious IT director to review our IT and our IT suppliers, and to help us grow our production and distribution capabilities' Read more

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Sterling

'Freeman Clarke have been instrumental in implementing industry best practices around the management, support and financial management of the IT function' Read more

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Amberjack

'It was vitally important that our IT strategy and delivery were led by an expert who understood our values' Read more

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BioCity

'BioCity is now highly data-driven and is seeing the benefits in terms of better decision making and more predictable outcomes' Read more

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British Pathé

'Having someone completely independent and trusted who understands both the business and the technology has proved to be a significant business enabler' Read more

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