EC1 Advisory

We’ve operated where banks, technology and investors meet for more than 20 years. Our clients are banks, FinTech, consultants and investors. We've run an SMB marketing P&L of £1bn, served 1m+ SMBs, designed, built and distributed millions of SMB digital services & won the Financial Innovation Awards four times. We created the UK's 1st open banking platform and ran a global bank's innovation unit. We've completed 3 exits to US PE backed buyers, and 1 IPO in NED capacity. Our current clients include a UK public company, a European FinTech top 50 player, a FinTech with tier 1 bank clients who recently completed a major funding round and a technology focused private equity fund. Our historic success and current expertise is based on a deep understanding of value generating partnerships between tier 1 global banks and both the giants and disrupters of the technology & FinTech worlds. Across the last two decades we've created partnerships and local operations from North America to Europe and from Africa to Australasia. We've done deals and built lasting relationships between countless organisations including Wells Fargo, Barclays, Deutsche, Lloyds, Mastercard, Microsoft, Google, Sage, Intuit, Xero, EMC, Experian, CreditReform, Cervid and Dropbox.