Financial Services Consulting

Helping build a trusted, more effective financial services sector that provides equitable participation and better outcomes for all New Zealanders

We work with banks, insurers, investment houses, asset and wealth managers and other financial institutions. With deep connections to our global network, our experienced team brings the best available thought leadership, innovation, tools and techniques to support you during this significant period of uncertainty, change and market transformation.

Sector drivers

Our clients around the globe are actively developing high value technology ecosystems to collaborate with financial and non-financial organisations to integrate customer journeys. While most open banking capabilities have focused on payments, we are seeing its application expand into personal financial management and lending processes, enabling industry convergence.

Combating financial crime is more important than ever, with regulation constantly changing and becoming more robust. Financial institutions not only need to demonstrate compliance, but also ensure the speed and accuracy of financial crime prevention mechanisms are effective and efficient in both detecting and preventing money laundering and terrorist financing.

Financial services firms are facing increased pressure to create a competitive advantage in customer engagement and to boost productivity through digitisation of processes and the workforce. Examples include automated loan decisioning, automated opening of accounts, automated insurance claims processes, and spend analytics to help you save and manage money.

To really lean into the permanent shift of preferences towards digital channels post-COVID (even in customer segments that traditionally prefer F2F channels), there is a need to simplify product and pricing to reduce complexity at the front end, and for operations. We cannot expect customers to navigate product/pricing complexity in an online or digital channel. This will be especially important as a prerequisite for B2B as demand shifts to digital channels. 

COVID-19 will likely serve to accelerate the implementation of current and planned regulatory measures in many countries and regions. Sanctions, anti-money laundering, and IFRS 17 implementation, amongst other aspects, are all likely to be front of mind.

The risk of insurers failing to keep up with technological change was by some distance the top concern in the Asia Pacific region, followed by cybercrime.

PwC's Insurance Banana Skins, 2021

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Customer and Digital Transformation

Key contact: Greg Doone

How we can help:

  • Digital product roadmaps
  • Human-centred design
  • Customer insights & experience
  • Data & analytics
  • Agile delivery models
  • Core platform
  • Open banking & convergence of industries

Operational Transformation

Key contact: Lindsay Gervais

How we can help:

  • Tech-enabled transformation 

  • Physical infrastructure planning

  • Process re-engineering

Technology

Key contact: Greg Doone

How we can help:

  • Alliance partnership projects - including with Microsoft and Salesforce 

  • Cloud product implementation - including nCino and Pega

  • Intelligent automation

  • Large-scale tech transformation

Workforce of the Future

Key contact: Malcolm Foo

How we can help:

  • Reskilling and capability development

  • Organisation design

  • Culture and leadership

  • People analytics

  • Workforce strategy

Actuarial and Modelling

Key contact: Ben Coulter

How we can help:

  • Actuarial and modelling

  • Analytics

  • Business modelling and forecasting

  • Pricing and reserving for insurers

  • Credit risk/capital requirement assessment
  • IFRS17 requirements

 

Cyber

Key contact: Craig Maskell

How we can help:

  • Strategy

  • Managed cyber defence

ESG/Climate Change Agenda

Contact: Annabell Chartres

How we can help: 

  • Understanding and responding to regulatory change

  • ESG due diligence & screening

  • Climate disclosure journey

  • Sector risk appetite

  • Investment criteria 

Risk and Regulation Transformation

Key contact: Tamara McDonagh

How we can help:

  • Understanding and responding to regulatory change

  • Compliance and control

  • Assessment and simplification

COVID-19 will not delay - and may accelerate the implementation of current and planned regulatory measures in many countries and regions.

PwC's The Future of Financial Services, 2020

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Greg Doone

Partner, Auckland, PwC New Zealand

+64 21 863 396

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Paul Nickels

Partner, Auckland, PwC New Zealand

+64 21 576 328

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Ben Coulter

Partner, Auckland, PwC New Zealand

+64 21 343317

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Craig Maskell

Cyber Consulting Partner, Wellington, PwC New Zealand

+64 21 915 380

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Annabell Chartres

Partner, Sustainability, Climate & Nature Leader, Auckland, PwC New Zealand

+64 21 799 927

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Graeme Horne

Partner, Financial Services, Auckland, PwC New Zealand

+64 21 648 756

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Lindsay Gervais

Director, PwC New Zealand

+64 27 293 9289

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Tamara McDonagh

Director, Governance, Risk and Regulatory, PwC New Zealand

+64 22 019 9636

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