Measurable outcomes, delivered into the business. — Capmark Advisory

Measurable outcomes, delivered into the business.

Selected engagements across capital markets, superannuation and global banking. Each delivered with senior practitioners in the room from day one, and a hard outcome the client can point to.

Clients Served

Since 2012, Capmark has helped leading banks, investment firms and market institutions across the UK, US and Australia deliver complex change. Our reputation is built on deep industry expertise, clear advice, measurable impact and accountability from strategy through to delivery.

HSBC
Wells Fargo
Blackstone
AustralianSuper
JBWere
NAB
Barclays
Macquarie

Featured engagements

Eleven engagements. A measurable outcome in every one.

From front-to-back operating-model redesign at a global bank to MiFID II trading infrastructure, surveillance and financial-crime transformation, treasury platform delivery and superannuation build. In each, senior practitioners were in the room from day one — and stayed accountable to the outcome the client can point to.

Global Investment Bank markets front office and operations, client result

Capital Markets · Operating Model

Markets front office and operations transformation for a global investment bank

Global Investment Bank · Markets Front Office & Operations

We helped redesign the Markets front office and operations operating model — moving trade capture into the front office with clean segregation of duties, standing up nine shared services and centres of excellence across client operations, trade control, margin and collateral, prime and agency derivatives, financing and treasury operations, and moving 100+ roles to lower-cost locations.

99.9%
Trades booked at the point of execution
9
Shared services and centres of excellence created
100+
Roles moved to lower-cost locations
80%
Straight-through processing targeted
Multi-asset trading infrastructure under MiFID II, client result

Capital Markets · Regulatory Transformation

MiFID II trading controls and infrastructure across six asset classes

Leading Investment Bank · Equities, Derivatives, Commodities, FX, Credit & Rates

We delivered MiFID II controls and trading infrastructure across algorithmic trading, direct electronic access, market making, CCP clearing, surveillance and best execution — compliant market making across six asset classes.

80+
Venues and platforms brought under MiFID II trading controls
$50bn+
Cleared derivatives volume
99.9% zero-leakage
Protection against RTS 6 compliance breaches
Cross-asset
Monitoring across six asset classes
Global Investment Bank risk, treasury and finance functions, client result

Banking · Risk, Treasury & Finance

Risk, Treasury and Finance transformation for a global investment bank

Global Investment Bank · Risk, Treasury & Finance

We helped redesign the bank's Risk, Treasury and Finance functions end to end — restructuring legal entities for ring-fencing, consolidating change into a single portfolio, creating shared services, rationalising the platform estate and divesting the Portugal, Italy and Spain businesses — with 100+ roles moved to lower-cost locations.

£1bn+
Risk-weighted assets divested
3
European Non-Core businesses divested
£50m
Run-rate cost savings delivered
100+
Roles moved to lower-cost locations
Superannuation fund treasury and liquidity platform, client result

Superannuation & Pensions

Calypso platform delivery for a major superannuation fund

A Major Australian Superannuation Fund · Liquidity & Treasury Management

We implemented Calypso as the trade execution and settlement platform for liquidity and treasury across the UK and Australia — trading workflows, venue integration, middle-office design and regulatory reporting — and internalised A$10bn of externally-managed portfolios onto the in-house platform.

A$10bn
Portfolios internalised
$20m
Programme budget led
2 jurisdictions
Delivered live across the UK and Australia
Calypso
Front-to-back treasury platform delivered
Tier 1 bank eFX algorithmic trading controls, client result

Capital Markets · Conduct & Controls

eFX trading controls and surveillance rebuilt under an enforceable undertaking

A Tier 1 Bank · Markets, FX Electronic Trading

We met the enforceable undertaking over the bank's FX business — designing and uplifting the controls, monitoring and surveillance across its eFX algorithmic trading platform and the Barracuda order management system, every remediation reviewed by an independent expert.

100%
Of enforceable-undertaking obligations closed, independent-expert reviewed
eFX + OMS
Platforms uplifted
Independent expert
Every remediation reviewed
Real-time
Algo monitoring delivered
Alternative asset manager financial-crime controls, client result

Asset & Wealth Management · Financial Crime

Financial-crime controls rebuilt for a Global Alternative Asset Manager

Global Alternative Asset Manager

We turned AML regulatory findings into a working financial-crime framework — customer risk assessment, screening, enhanced due diligence and AI-assisted alert reduction — remediated to completion under independent scrutiny.

5
Interlocking initiatives directed
2 clouds
Azure and AWS delivery
100%
AML findings closed & evidenced to the independent monitor
Global investment bank trade surveillance rebuild, client result

Capital Markets · Surveillance

Trade surveillance rebuilt across ETD and OTC flow for a global investment bank

A Leading Global Investment Bank · Trade Surveillance

We took market-abuse surveillance from risk assessment through vendor selection to live platforms across exchange-traded and OTC flow — MAR- and ASIC-aligned, with AI tuning to suppress false positives.

ETD + OTC
Flow brought under surveillance
MAR · ASIC
Obligations aligned
~65%
Fewer false-positive alerts (AI tuning)
Private wealth manager revenue and fee operating model, client result

Asset & Wealth Management · Operating Model

Revenue, fee and funds management operating model rebuilt for Australia's leading private wealth manager

Australia's Leading Private Wealth Manager

We rebuilt the operating model behind all revenue — advice fees, commissions and funds management — integrating a third-party advice-wrap platform, implementing aspects of Iress, and remediating the ledgers beneath them.

3 revenue lines
On one operating model
58%
Fewer reconciliation breaks
$56bn+
Assets under advice
To production
Full test lifecycle delivered
Corporate and investment bank client onboarding and credit model, client result

Banking · Operating Model

One client-onboarding and credit operating model across 38 countries

A Global Corporate & Investment Bank · Client Onboarding & Credit Operating Model

We implemented one global client-onboarding and credit target operating model across 38 countries — recalibrating 110 roles, rationalising technology and supporting the bank's commitments under a US deferred prosecution agreement, absorbing the integration impacts of M&A across wholesale banking.

38
Countries on one operating model
110
Roles recalibrated
£50m
Benefits-realisation target
10
Consultants led
UK investment bank Dodd-Frank Title VII conduct programme, client result

Capital Markets · Regulatory Transformation

Dodd-Frank internal business conduct delivered for a UK global investment bank

A UK Global Tier 1 Investment Bank · Dodd-Frank Title VII

We delivered the CFTC's internal business conduct rules for the bank's registered swap dealer — risk management programme, supervision, daily trading records, swap documentation and CCO governance — across the rates, credit and FX derivatives businesses.

Title VII
Dodd-Frank swap dealer regime
CFTC Part 23
Internal business conduct delivered
3
Derivatives businesses covered
Daily
Trading records evidenced end to end
US investment bank eFX and equities trading platform, client result

Capital Markets · Trading Technology

eFX and Equities Algorithmic Trading Platform engineering for a US investment bank

A US Investment Bank · eFX & Equities Algorithmic Trading

We engineered a US bank's electronic trading estate front to back — enhancing its Integral eFX platform and internal equities algo platform, engineering back-to-back risk into the US book, and updating the Calypso middle office and the OPICS and Fenics OMS.

Integral
Vendor eFX platform enhanced
B2B
Automated risk transfer to the US book
Calypso
Middle-office integration enhanced
OPICS + Fenics
Order management systems updated

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