“…it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
The Red Queen, in “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll.
How we can help you
If you stand still in business, you will quickly find yourself falling behind. Red Queen Advisory Limited will help you keep up with the market and accelerate your growth ambitions whist managing risk and maintaining compliance.
Building & Evolving your business
Support with building and growing your financial services business whether you are a new start up yet to launch, a new business growing rapidly or an established entity looking to do something different. We can help you build, grow and adapt you business.
Risk & Regulation
Advice and consulting services on risk management and regulation that isn’t just about avoiding risk for banks, building societies, non-bank lenders, payment services firms and investment firms.
Our Services
Services include advice, support, drafting and reviews across:
- Regulatory authorisations including new license applications Variation of Permission (VoP), Senior Manager applications and Change in Control (CiC)
- Regulatory Capital / ICAAP / ICARA
- Regulatory Liquidity / ILAAP
- Recovery and Resolution Planning / Fire drills
- Solvent Exit Analysis and Solvent Execution / Wind-Down Planning
- Governance / Board Effectiveness and SM&CR
- Risk Management Frameworks, Risk Appetite, Risk Policies and Reporting
- Consumer Duty and Conduct Risk
- Outsourcing & Third Party Risk Management
- Credit Risk and Asset Quality
- Liquidity / Treasury Risk
- Compliance
See our services page for a full breakdown of what we offer.
The Red Queen Advisory Team
Steph Henderson-Begg, Founder and Managing Director of Red Queen, is a risk and regulatory specialist with extensive experience in supporting financial services firms from more than 13 years working in roles across the regulator and Big 4.
Steph has worked with numerous lenders, payments firms, investment firms and small to mid-tier banks from new start-ups and challengers to overseas subsidiaries and branches.
She has acted as a Chief Risk Officer and supported senior management and boards in an advisory and coaching capacity.
Steph's experience includes, but is not limited to, drafting and reviewing of regulatory business plans (RBPs), capital (ICAAP), liquidity (ILAAP), recovery and wind down (SWDP) / solvent exit planning; provision of outsourced services across regulatory horizon scanning, regulatory reporting, risk reporting, financial crime management and internal audit reviews; deals / M&A support; governance, SM&CR and board effectiveness reviews; business planning and stress testing; regulatory interview preparation and training; risk management frameworks, risk appetites and policy documentation.
Steph works closely with other advisory firms alongside a fantastic cooperative of ex-regulators, C-suite and Big 4 advisors. This forms the basis of a tremendous cross-disciplinary team to support your goals.
Heather Butler - Associate Partner
Heather has worked in financial services for over 20 years. She has held executive positions including CSO at Pay.uk the UK’s International payments system operator, and COO for the Prudential Regulation Authority.
Her professional experience includes delivering transformation policy and change in the UK and Europe, running and scaling operations, corporate governance and risk management, notably operational risk. Much of this was gained in her role as head of authorisations where she reviewed and opined on firm’s management, governance risk management. She now provides advisory services to start-ups and SMEs in the financial sector.