Marsh Corporate Consulting Limited offers a range of business advisory services to the SME sector with an emphasis on helping businesses that are aligned to accelerating growth. We achieve this by working closely with business owners and directors and challenge outdated conventional thinking on acquisition and organic growth strategies.
Kieran Marsh, our founder, qualified as one of the UK’s youngest accountants before attaining an MSc in Business Finance. With over 30 years experience in industry, largely at CEO/CFO-level, Kieran brings a wealth of commercial experience to bear.
Key achievements:
- CFO for one of the country’s leading independent Insurance Brokers, initially focussing on organic growth. The business made over 55 acquisitions, growing the business in the lead up to a £150m sale.
- Extensive experience of MBO / MBI’s, acquisitions (including a PLC) and disposals.
- On leading banks’ panels for Due Diligence within the Financial Sector.
- Established in 1990 and developed a client base including a large number of SME’s and also blue-chip clients including Cooperative, Axa and Aviva and many smaller PLC’s.
- One of the leading experts in the UK on the FSA and has delivered keynote speeches across the UK and in North America. Also made numerous TV appearances on Report on Business, The Toronto Stock Exchange and CH TV.
- Analysed over 3000 brokers Statutory Accounts and presented to the FSA that over 400 could fail the Capital Resources Requirement from January 2008. This precipitated an action by the FSA to write to over 600 brokers who had a potential exposure.
- Publicly advised “distressed brokers” not to sell but fix the Goodwill challenge.
- BIBA Scheme member, 2005 to 2008, for FSA Financial Compliance. During this period, advised on BIBA’s best selling Compliance Manual, the Client Money Calculation and also established guidelines for Eric Galbraithe to publish advice on Goodwill and its treatment by BIBA broker members.
- We have carried more FSA Compliance Health Checks on brokers throughout the UK since 2005 than many leading compliance specialists, including the widely reported Axa Compliance Health Checks.
- Trained hundreds of leading Insurer Account Managers on FSA Compliance.
- Advised leading insurers on key aspects of Risk Transfer.
- Building on an extensive experience within the insurance sector combined with astute finance awareness of the challenges facing brokers, invested massively in the creation of a unique web based compliance solution for all insurance brokers.
- We act as key advisors to ensure broker compliance meets the standards introduced by the FSA. We offer an industry-leading web based compliance tool for Insurance Brokers – we call this iBMACS (Insurance Brokers Management And Compliance Solution).
- Marsh Corporate Consulting Limited works closely with AXA, and played a vital role during their broker compliance workshops. AXA view iBMACS as a “major breakthrough to the most significant challenge faced by brokers in recent years”. Exclusive discounts are available to AXA brokers. To find out how to take advantage of this offer, please contact us.
- iBMACS is totally secure, up to date and relevant to all key areas of FSA compliance. An indispensible tool at an affordable price for every broker.
- Our solution is future proof and will be adapted as the compliance contours change during the transition from the current FSA regime to the creation of the planned new regulator CPMA (Consumer Protection and Markets Authority). The CPMA is scheduled for introduction in January 2011 with the aim of going live in June 2012, according to Lyndon Nelson, Director of Risk Management at the FSA.
- iBMACS offers a secure, user-friendly and comprehensive way of ensuring all of your compliance needs are met. We let you get on with running your business.
- Our iBMACS clients include a substantial number of brokers and networks, ranging from sole traders up to PLC level. We are proud of our exceptionally high client retention rates and believe that iBMACS is peerless alongside other web based Compliance Solutions.