Walker Morris LLP is a distinctive law firm valued by its clients for consistently achieving excellent results. We believe our distinctiveness is based on the quality of the services we deliver to clients, our unique culture and the engagement of our partners and high calibre lawyers.
We are a top UK 100 full service commercial law firm, based in Leeds, focused on providing our clients both in the UK and Internationally with partner-led, high quality, insightful advice. Our single centre of excellence has significant advantages in terms of developing a strong team-based, collaborative culture, with the inherent cost effectiveness that a Leeds base brings.
With a staff of over 450 including 45 partners, Walker Morris is uniquely recognised for its strong multi-disciplinary teamwork and straightforward advice. Both the firm and its lawyers are recognised as leaders in their fields with 96 per cent of our partners recommended in either Chambers or Legal 500 for their expertise.
We have an expert Regulatory team that specialises in advising regulated financial firms on all aspects of their business and operations. Clients include banks, insurers and insurance brokers, stockbrokers, asset managers, consumer lenders and payment services firms.
Venta Compliance Limited provides practical regulatory compliance solutions to companies regulated in the financial service sector. This includes support with authorisations, variations of permission or other notifications, as well as post authorisation compliance monitoring and advice on meeting current and future regulatory developments.
Varramore Partners Limited (“Varramore”) is a boutique professional service provider offering a range of bespoke services to investment firms.
We provide services to investment firms that are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), seeking to become authorised and regulated by the FCA or wishing to operate under the regulatory umbrella of an investment firm that is authorised and regulated by the FCA.
Varramore combines in-house investment sector experience with consulting practice knowledge to provide our clients with a “best of both” service. In addition to possessing extensive experience in the areas of regulatory hosting, governance, risk, compliance, accounting, finance and tax, Varramore understands how investment firms operate on a day-to-day basis. This combination allows us to deliver practical, pragmatic and proportionate services to our clients in a manner that adds values and improves operational efficiency.
We pride ourselves on forging strong working relationships with our clients. To do so, we work side-by-side with our clients to gain an in-depth understanding of their business, strategy and people. This enables us to provide our clients with a truly bespoke service tailored to their specific needs. We believe that delivering our services in a highly tailored manner ensures that our clients get the most out of their relationship with Varramore. Ultimately, our aim is to become a trusted and valued long-term business partner to our clients.
Varramore was established in 2016 and is headquartered in London.
UKGI Group Limited provides expert compliance support to a wide range of firms in the general insurance, consumer credit and claims management sector. Our clients include independent professional insurance brokers, secondary intermediaries, credit brokers, niche insurtech start-ups, large call centre operations, insurers and claims management companies.
We provide practical, hands-on expertise and our goal is to understand our client’s business and work with them to ensure that compliance brings benefits to all stakeholders: clients, staff and shareholders.
We have over 18 staff in all, including 11 consultants supported by a team of high experienced technical experts and underpinned by our online manual and library of documents, regulatory updates and CII accredited workshops.
Our core values are honesty, integrity and professionalism underpinned by a commitment to operational excellence.
TRE Compliance provides risk and compliance consultancy services to a wide range of clients in the UK and Internationally. Our areas of work include obtaining FCS Authorisation; applying for Variation of Permissions, Anti-money Laundering and Financial Crime advice; Due Diligence; Client Asset and Client Money (CASS); Transaction Reporting; FCA Financial Reporting; COREP; GDPR; Documentation; and FCA Training. The sectors we cover are: Forex: CFDs; Asset Management; Investment Brokers; Payment Service Providers and e-money; and Fintech.
Trading Compliance Limited (TCL) was established in 1997 and our services include FCA authorisation, compliance consultancy and AML/Financial Crime support for Investment firms, Fund Managers and Payment firms based in the UK, EEA and internationally. All of our Principals and Senior Associates have many years of experience in the compliance industry, having worked as both regulators and practitioners. TCL has specialist expertise in securities and derivatives including Forex, CFDs, spread-bets, binaries, futures and options. We also assist Payment Services Providers, E-money issuers and other Money Services Businesses obtain authorisation and comply with their Conduct of Business and AML requirements. Our client base includes a number of the major players worldwide in these markets, and we have helped many of these firms to establish a presence in the UK.
GI compliance consultants giving advice and guidance to Brokers, MGAs and Insurers
Threesixty provides fee based support services for directly regulated pension, investment, mortgage and insurance intermediaries. We also have specialist services to support firms with discretionary fund management (DFM) permissions.
Our services are targeted to support firms wherever they are in the business lifecycle. Whether right at the outset – for new businesses looking for full hand holding through the direct authorisation process. Through the firm’s growth/establishment phase, organically or via acquisition. Finally the eventual business owner’s exit via succession or sale.
Throughout our relationship with a firm we look to help with not just the compliance aspects of a business but best practices, help both the business foundations and prospects for success. We look to tailor our support for your firm’s changing needs.
Likewise on the DFM side, we help both established fund managers but also those looking at varying their services and take on the managing investment permissions.
We also provide outsourced services to nationals and networks.
Threesixty focuses on personalised solutions, via a sensibly constructed package, unique to each client firm.
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Thistle Initiatives operates across the financial services market, in sectors as diverse as fintech and general insurance. Clients range from niche start-ups to the largest of distributors, including investment specialists and insurers.
We operate in five primary sectors:
FINTECH
GENERAL INSURANCE
INVESTMENT
CONSUMER CREDIT
PAYMENT SERVICES
Our team of over 50 staff is divided into practice specialists so clients can be sure of dealing with individuals who understand their market.
We advise and support firms in relation to compliance with FCA regulation, PRA requirements and key legislation impacting the financial services industry including GDPR and the Money Laundering Regulations 2017.
Compliance consultancy for financial advisory, insurance and mortgage broking firms.