What we do
Founded in 2007 as a wholly staff-owned business, since inception we have aimed to provide insight, honesty and a highly personalised approach to all our clients.
Companies receive unrivalled advisory work from our trusted and experienced banking team. Institutional investors hunting for ideas receive direct access to our seasoned sales team and research analysts, along with introductions to companies, innovators and thought leaders. Traders wanting high or low-touch execution from multiple venues, with proper performance benchmarking, deal with us daily.
Our latest transaction successes
Thought of the Week – Cut it out
May 2024
Corporate reports are getting longer and longer, and earnings calls aren’t getting any better either. As investors, we have to wade through this swamp of clutter and legal disclosures to find the actual information. Luckily, chatGPT and other LLMs can help us with that while at the same time amplifying signals that are obfuscated by clutter and legalese.
Thought of the Week – The trust equation
May 2024
By coincidence, I had several chats in recent weeks with clients, colleagues and friends about the trust equation. Originally invented by Charles Green and his co-authors of The Trusted Advisor, it provides a neat framework to think about trust, how to gain it and how to preserve it. Personally, I wrote about it for the first time when I became disillusioned with the abysmal behaviour of banks during the financial crisis. Since then, the trust equation has been a constant companion of mine to assess who to trust and how to gain and increase the trust my clients placed in me.
Thought of the Week - The rise of shadow banking in two key charts
May 2024
Most people know that after the financial crisis, banks were hit by tighter capital requirements, which has been blamed by some for the decline in bank lending. But a new study shows that (i) this decline in bank lending started much earlier, and (ii) the main driving force behind it was the rise of shadow banking.