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Arbejdernes Landsbank is one of Denmark’s best-known and most trusted retail banks. As part of its growth strategy, Arbejdernes Landsbank acquired Vestjysk Bank. As part of this acquisition, the requirement for Arbejdernes Landsbank was to meet new regulatory compliance while maintaining its customer-centric culture. We developed an overarching risk and control governance structure in place for the two banks all the while allowing for the banks to operate each their separate business models.

PA Consulting worked with social business Catch22 to develop a growth strategy for Code4000. The programme provides coding training for prisoners to help them find technology jobs after release and stay out of prison.

We collaborated with PGIM Fixed Income, a business unit of PGIM, the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc., to enable the technology team to adopt more agile ways of working to support business growth in the complex, volatile marketplace.

Around the world, COVID-19 has transformed society on so many levels, forcing consumers to respond to social, political, economic, professional and personal changes in real-time. Organisations must rapidly address evolving consumer behaviours. Our consumer insight team saw an opportunity to quickly launch a research project to explore these changes in the UK. To date, this research has provided insights into over 10 industry verticals and horizontal topics, helping brands evolve products and services to meet emerging consumer needs.

OneSavings Bank, a UK firm with a 150 year heritage, takes its regulatory and business responsibilities very seriously. We helped the firm undertake an operational resilience programme to evaluate its ability to respond to operational and financial crises.

Online search is critical for people researching and deciding their next moves. But while search engines produce results quickly, they only answer the questions that users ask and they’re influenced by previous searches. Working with a leading global drinks company, we’ve developed a new kind of artificial intelligence (AI) search tool, named Dark Matter, that goes a step further by also answering questions users didn’t know they could ask – but that could unlock valuable opportunities.

UBQ Materials Ltd, a B-Corp start-up headquartered in Israel, is tackling the growing global problem of landfill waste. The company has found a way to transform residential municipal solid waste into a biomass-based thermoplastic material.

We helped a global pharmaceutical company exploit smart manufacturing technologies to double production volumes within three years. Our client successfully implemented a range of smart technologies, releasing significant production capacity achieving a £50 million uplift in revenues and eliminating the need for a planned £200 million investment in a new production line.

Our work with Sovereign Housing during the COVID-19 lockdown has been instrumental in bringing teams together to develop a cohesive response with residents at its heart. The changes will provide residents with quality homes that meet their needs, more opportunities to shape the communities they live in and easier access to more efficient services.

We helped Aegon Asset Management’s UK business Kames Capital develop agile capabilities to deliver change initiatives faster than ever before. Kames can now deliver large programmes consistently within a year from inception to completion. Kames has empowered and motivated people with the new agile capabilities and skills needed to meet the challenge of change in a world that never stands still.