General knowledge of Capco Flashcards

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What type of Company is Capco?

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is a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation in the financial services industry.

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How do capco give information to clients and who may their clients be?

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combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions and fast-track digital initiatives.

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What is a big skill and one you defientely mention that capco take pride on?

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Giving tailor made solutions to client

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Who is a parent company of capco and what are there 3 subsidiaries?

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Parent company: Wipro

Subsidiaries: The capital markets company GmbH, Capco nordic, ATOM solutions LLC.

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Where is Capco’s headquarters and who is the CEO?

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operational headquarters are in London, England,

Lance Levy is the CEO of Capco,

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How many employees do Capco have?

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Over 6500 people.

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What 3 pieces of recognition did capco get within 2021?

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1) Consultancy’s 30 Best Companies
2) London’s 75 Best Large Companies
3) Scotland’s 40 Best Companies

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What are the 5 values of capco which define how we work with our employees and clients,

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1) Integrity
2) Respect
3) Commitment
4) Excellence
5) Knowledge

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Why is integrity important and why is respect important?

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We believe integrity is the central building block to ensure that we have positive, productive and long-term relationships with our clients, employees, vendors and industry partners.
being respectful of diverse opinions and perspectives, and acting appropriately and empathically in daily interactions.

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What does capco want to make their employees feel like?

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Its their own firm to own and run, not have rigid hirercharal structures, but rather encourage independence.

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What does the Capco’s main culture Be yourself at work mean?

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Diversity powers innovation, removing the barriers of ‘one size fits all’. Everyone is unique and has something to bring to be table.

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Give an example of a technogolical based success story Capco have had?

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Created a technological mobile phone app for 5-11 year olds with MyBNK.

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What was the mobile app for 5-11 year olds and why create it?

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My Bnk wanted to develop a mobile phone app about family money skills so partnered up with CAPCO WITH THEIR TECHNOLOGICAL EXPERTISE TO CREATE THIS.
Key attitudes and behaviors towards money reportedly start to form at age seven, and there is currently no compulsory financial education in English primary schools.

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What are some of the product features developed(ITS ON IOS) ?

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Keep track of banking activity.

A weekly family chart to track spending habits.

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What is another key area that Capco incorporates into their services and what do they support?

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Corporate social responsibility.

They support the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact

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What is another Suceess story that Capco have had ( HINt they worked with Natwest) ?

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Capco partnered with NatWest to create a new breed of bank for businesses, Mettle.
NatWest wanted to do more to help small and medium-sized businesses, which are traditionally underserved by the banking industry. Hence capco came in.

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What are some of the features of Mettle?

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1) Fast application
2) invoicing and reporting
3) Accounting
4) Managing your cards

18
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What are the 3 services Capco delivery?

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Digital ( Mettle success story)
Consulting
Technology

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What is PlatformZero and what features does it include ( an innovation from Capco?

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A cloud based, digital and automation solution helping financial institutions sell to and service their clients more effectively.
Features include access to business content for financial services, end to end digitialisaiton( e.g. like signutature in electronic form.
This reduces costs and delivery risk

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Who are capco’s clients? ( 5)

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Banking and payments 
Capital markets 
Wealth and Assessment management 
Insurance 
Energy.
21
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Discuss Banking and payments

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With a rise of fintechs ( financial technology, like banking with phone), customer expectations are changing all the time.
Capco’s banking experts provide digital transformation services to grow banks’ retail, commercial and corporate offerings, supporting them along an agile and customer-focused journey.
So mettle is good example.

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Discuss Wealth and asset management?

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Capco give consulting advice on how Wealth and asset managers can expand their customer portfolio and prepare for fee compression and votaile markets.

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Discuss capital markets

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Discuss insurance companies?

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25
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Why is capco having an increase increase influence post covid 19?

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Organizations are beginning to adapt ( 74% of companies plan to permanently shift to more remote working post covid 19). This presents an opportunity to Capco. Work capco will do is?
Remote compliance function implementation

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What is Management consulting?

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Management consultants they work with businesses to improve their performance by providing expert advice to solve problems. ( basically a more internal process)

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What is Strategy consulting|?

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Strategy consultants advise organisations on high-level decisions in an unbiased fashion, using deep industry knowledge to deliver the best results. ( They solve big ambigious problems such as how to transform company in 5 years time.

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What are the fees associated for management and strategic consulting?

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Higher fees associated with strategy consultant

Lower fees associated with management consulting

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lets look at a firm who has a profitability issue. What would a management consultant look at and what would a Strategy consultant look at?

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Management consulting firms look at cost savings, tech innovations, ( more technical focus)
Strategy consulting here would look at large scale directional change, so rather than fixing the ship, they look at new markets to go into ( its aspirational in its nature)

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Why are interested in a career in management and strategic consulting?a

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Having completed an internship at Greenside capital partners who focused almost exclusively in the areas of clean energy infrastructure, renewable energy, and green assets in private markets, we worked on raising capital for these private equity markets for an outcome in the future. While this reinforced, my love for working with smart like minded individuals and massive clients, I realised that i prefer to work more on a mix of conceptual and strategic tasks and projects, which i can focus internally on the firm ( not only purely external) This is what management and strategic consulting bring.

In addition consultancy presents a skill tailor made solutions which i have thrived on for many years now. Talk about tutoring. As a consultant you have to have the client at the forefront of the objective, Thus having read extensively the work Capco do i am convinced that my skills live within the world of clientele interaction.

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Why Capco?

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Having spoken to an Associate at Capco Adam Asher Tabib, who told me about the culture and how its like to be in a Capco environment. What really stuck with me was that everyone within the office and environment, even the junior consultants are encouraged to contribute not matter what because he stated that ‘diversity = innovation which is presented very clearly within your website. It’s recognised as one of the best companies to work for, which is pivotal for an ideal working environment. I want to be in an environment which fearlesses in an opinion shouldn’t be overshadowed. And this is what i was told by a previous LSE colleague.

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Who are the 3 main companies that do pure strategy consulting?

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Mckinsey& Company
BCG
Bain and company
They charge really high fees meaning consultants work on one project at a time, Price signals quality, you can go deep in projects.

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What was the growth rate of consulting in 2020 and what is expected growth rate in 2021/2

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2.5% growth rate despite Covid 19 pandemic.

Projected growth rate is set to be 9%.