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Banking and Financial Services Transformation

Get closer to customers, drive operational efficiency and enable employees.

Banking & Financial

Banking operating for a customer-obsessed industry

Let us help you find and implement the right technologies to improve your customer experience, optimize data and transform your business model.

Improve Employee Experience & Productivity
  • Measure, benchmark and track employee experience

  • Perform a skills assessment to identify the gaps and opportunities to improve

  • Enable employees and develop the optimal Learning & Development strategy

  • Design and implement new ways of working, including the right talent strategy

  • Transform HR operations to improve employee engagement

Optimize Costs and Maximize Financial Transparency
  • Support your Technology Business Management journey to ensure ROI is achieved

  • Provide practical FinOps advice to drive better cloud economics

  • Benchmark your technology and operations cost against your peers to identify areas for improvement

  • Develop a new way of approaching cost optimization to make it sustainable and enduring

  • Design the optimal cost structure, including embedding a new cost culture and virtual cost center of excellence

Develop Fully Optimized Supplier Strategy & Ecosystems
  • Provide insight into fully optimized supplier strategies, including new ways of segmentation, tail spend consolidation, new sourcing models and innovative commercial structures 

  • Advise on how to manage newly emerging ecosystems, including Banking-as-a-Service, FinTechs, Big Techs, hyperscalers, niche suppliers, etc. 
  • Provide third-party risk management assurance and optimized governance solutions 

  • Advise on how to leverage AI in contracts with suppliers for outsourcing and / or transformation 
  • Provide insight into Global Capability Center strategy, including drivers, KPIs, commercial structures and supplier ecosystem

Meet Our Banking and Financial Services Team

Lois Coatney

Lois Coatney

Partner, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance

Lois Coatney

Lois Coatney

Lois Coatney leads ISG’s Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industry practice. She serves as a trusted advocate for Fortune 500 clients, helping them maximize the value of their service providers and supply chains. With more than two decades of experience as a service provider herself, Lois brings a unique perspective to every engagement. 

In addition to her industry leadership role, Lois is a member of the ISG Executive Board, where she oversees Global Sales. As an executive at ISG, Lois focuses not only on financial results but also on how ISG can strengthen its market presence. She combines a deep understanding of client needs with a clear vision of ISG’s strengths to drive business growth. Lois is also committed to mentoring ISG colleagues, helping them build strong client partnerships and career growth.  Her passion is to be an advocate for bringing more women into technology both inside and outside of ISG. She launched and serves as Executive Sponsor of the ISG Women in Digital program, the Global ISG Women in Digital Awards Program, and mentors many women across  
the globe.

 

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Rakesh Parameshwara B

Rakesh Parameshwara B

Account Director

Rakesh Parameshwara B

Rakesh Parameshwara B

Rakesh leads Banking and Financial Services Sector for UK&I. He has over 18 years of experience working with industry-leading companies, helping them successfully shape their technology and business transformations. He is very passionate about the Banking and Financial Services sector and understands that customer and employees are the backbone of this industry. Rakesh has end-to-end experience having worked at the CXO level, leading and delivering across the transformation lifecycle, including business/IT strategy, sourcing, transition and transformation.


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Marc Harrison

Marc Harrison

Business Development Executive

Marc Harrison

Marc Harrison

As a Principal Consultant in BFS, Marc has 20+ years advising global banks and technology providers and has deep expertise in digital banking and emerging payments, with a comprehensive understanding of client needs across lines of business. He works with banks and technology providers to introduce new digital capabilities, streamline client acquisition, optimize the revenue process, and ensure efficiency across the entire client journey. 

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Andrea Spiegelhoff

Andrea Spiegelhoff

Partner

Andrea Spiegelhoff

Andrea Spiegelhoff

What she does at ISG

Andrea approaches her clients’ toughest problems, most ambitious goals, and most compelling opportunities with a simple and inspiring motto: “Everything is possible.” She grounds this visionary outlook with an exceptional understanding of what it takes for businesses to succeed into today’s complex markets, and how ISG’s portfolio of solutions and services can help them make rapid competitive transformations. 

Past achievements for clients

Andrea began her career in banking and classical business management environments. In her career at ISG, she has built on this rigorous foundation, cultivating a holistic expertise that allows her to apply her knowledge and experience across the entire business process optimization and digital transformation life cycle, from assessment through value realization. 

Among her 100+ engagements with ISG’s largest global clients, Andrea worked directly with senior leadership at a leading global healthcare firm to reshape their digital agenda. The company had never outsourced IT and needed to catch up with the market fast. She orchestrated a complete digital transformation, establishing a cutting-edge, product-aligned organization that leapfrogged legacy technology to achieve a rapid positive transformation – a process that many companies take a decade or more to complete. 

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Guido Tamburini

Guido Tamburini

Partner

Guido Tamburini

Guido Tamburini

Guido is a Partner, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance at ISG.
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Antoine Viale

Antoine Viale

Partner

Antoine Viale

Antoine Viale

Antoine’s background includes more than twenty-five years of progressively responsible positions in Business and High-Technology services companies. He is a talented and accomplished senior management professional, highly skilled in complex IT Strategy engagements and large transformational deals. He has established and directed highly successfully, multi-million dollar Information Technology programs for large fortune 500 companies (Alstom, AXA, AXA Technology Services, BNPP Corporate Investment Banking, Bridgestone, Carrefour, Crédit Agricole, DassaultAviation, EDF, Givaudan, HSBC, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia, Renault-Nissan, Sanofi, TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Total…). He has negotiated more than $4 billion in proposals and contracts.

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