Target Operating Model & Business Architecture
Design how the business should operate across capabilities, processes, organisation, technology, data, controls and governance.
Strategy & Transformation
Growth & Market Entry
Assess where to grow and what it will take to enter successfully.
Overview
What this means for your business.
Growth decisions bring market opportunity together with economics, permissions, operating capability and the investment required to launch.
Capmark helps institutions assess markets, products and entry options, including build, partner, acquire and joint-venture approaches. We develop business cases and test assumptions about operating cost, revenue timing and delivery requirements.
The recommendation can stand as a focused strategic assessment or lead into operating-model design and launch planning. Regulatory interpretation and authorisation remain with the relevant advisers and authorities.
What we do
The expertise we bring.
We build the commercial case for entering a market or launching a business, including investment required, operating cost, revenue timing, breakeven and downside scenarios. The board receives a clear recommendation with the delivery cost and time to revenue stated.
We map the licences, authorisations and governance a new business requires, then sequence the application, capital, control and operating-model work behind them. Licence conditions shape the design from the start.
We define the capabilities, roles, processes, platforms, controls and governance the new business needs, and cost them alongside the commercial case. We test what the existing organisation can absorb and what must be built.
We compare build, partner, acquire and joint venture options against economics, control, delivery risk and time to revenue. Integration or separation cost is included in the case from the start.
We turn the recommendation into a delivery roadmap with dependencies, decision points, investment gates and named owners. Where the board proceeds, we mobilise the programme and carry it through to launch.
What to expect
A team shaped around the work.
A Principal leads from day one, working with your strategy owner and the executives who will run the business if it proceeds. The first weeks build the fact base across market opportunity, regulatory pathway, cost to serve and delivery risk before any recommendation is made.
The engagement ends with a board-ready decision: one recommendation, a sequenced plan and a clear view of what it will take to deliver. Where the board proceeds, the same team carries the operating model and mobilisation work through to go-live.
Engagements range from a focused market-entry assessment to full ownership of the entry programme.
Engagements are shaped around the market decision and the level of implementation support required.
01
Assess
Establish the current state, the constraints, the risks and the value at stake.
02
Define
Shape the target model and the business case with the executives who own the outcome.
03
Mobilise
Stand up the team, the plan and the governance around the outcome.
04
Implement
Design, build and test the change, with the business alongside.
05
Sustain
Cutover, hypercare and handover, so the business runs it under its own control.
The same five stages on every engagement, led by senior practitioners end to end. How we work
Client result
Relevant client experience.
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
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Insights
Related perspectives.
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