Whether you’re building a digital transformation roadmap, launching a new financial product, or navigating regulatory change, we provide the insight, structure, and challenge needed to turn ambition into delivery. Our team brings deep knowledge of the financial sector — from payments modernisation and open banking to cloud migration and operational resilience — combined with hands-on experience delivering successful digital change at pace.
We help you explore what’s possible — and guide you to what works.
Understanding Strategy and Innovation in Financial Services
Digital transformation in financial services isn’t just about upgrading technology — it’s about creating systems and services that are secure, scalable, compliant, and customer-centric. That means navigating complex regulation, managing risk, aligning stakeholders across business and technology, and making decisions that balance innovation with operational and compliance realities.
At 6B, we help organisations create strategies that are both ambitious and executable. We support long-term digital planning, short-term acceleration, and everything in between. From enterprise architecture reviews to go-to-market strategy for fintech products, we tailor our approach to your commercial goals, regulatory environment, and operational constraints.
Our innovation consultancy explores new opportunities — from embedded finance and intelligent automation to real-time analytics and cloud-native services — always grounded in the requirements of security, resilience, and regulatory compliance (FCA/PRA, PSD2, DORA, ISO 27001, and more).
Our Strategy and Innovation Approach
We begin by understanding your current state: technology landscape, regulatory environment, customer needs, commercial goals, and operational challenges. Through stakeholder engagement, data analysis, and service mapping, we build a clear view of where you are and where you need to go.
From there, we co-create a strategy or innovation roadmap aligned to your priorities — whether that’s modernising legacy systems, meeting regulatory obligations, launching a new product, or adopting cloud-native and API-driven architectures.
Depending on your needs, we can support:
- Strategic discovery and future-state design
- Digital transformation roadmaps and domain-specific strategies
- Investment cases and cost-benefit modelling
- Operating model and process redesign
- Innovation workshops and opportunity assessments
- Technology landscape and vendor analysis
- Regulatory alignment for digital initiatives (e.g., DORA, FCA, PRA)
- Stakeholder engagement and communication planning
We don’t just write strategy documents — we provide actionable, evidence-based guidance that aligns with governance structures, risk frameworks, and delivery teams.
Benefits of Strategic and Innovation Consultancy
Working with 6B gives you clarity, direction, and momentum in a rapidly evolving financial landscape. Whether you’re a bank modernising core systems or a fintech preparing to scale, our approach ensures your strategy is credible, coherent, and ready to deliver results.
You’ll gain:
- A clear, evidence-backed plan aligned with regulatory requirements and commercial goals
- Stronger confidence in investment and technology decisions
- Early visibility of risks, barriers, and opportunities
- A pathway from concept to implementation supported by domain, technical, and regulatory expertise
- A trusted partner who understands both innovation and compliance in financial services
With 6B, you move from “what if” to “what next” — faster, safer, and with greater commercial impact.
Why Choose 6B for Strategy and Innovation?
We combine strategic thinking with deep sector-specific delivery experience. Our team includes financial services consultants, product strategists, service designers, and technologists who’ve led complex transformation across banks, insurers, payments providers, and high-growth fintechs.
We’ve supported regulatory-driven change, enterprise architecture modernisation, digital product launches, and API-driven integration programmes — helping our clients innovate responsibly and scale confidently.
Our consultancy is grounded in pragmatism. We understand the realities of financial services — legacy constraints, regulatory scrutiny, operational risk, tight timelines, and market competition — and we work with you to create strategies that are realistic, resilient, and commercially sound.
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Readiness Checklist for Strategy and Innovation
- Define strategic objectives, KPIs, and regulatory drivers (e.g., DORA, FCA Consumer Duty, payments compliance)
- Map stakeholders and governance, including exec sponsors, risk/compliance leads, IT/architecture, operations, and product owners
- Evidence the current state with service maps, workflows, performance data, tech estate, resilience posture, and contractual/vendor constraints
- Prepare the compliance pack including regulatory requirements, risk assessments, data governance posture, and security considerations
- Confirm data and integration readiness including data models, ownership, API estate, standards, and interoperability targets
- Compile investment case inputs including cost models, benefits, risks, delivery phasing, and procurement routes
- Develop adoption and change plans covering customer impact, operational processes, training, and success measurement
Speak To Our Strategy and Innovation Experts
Whether you're developing a new digital financial services product or extending an existing solution with Strategy and Innovation, 6B brings the technical expertise, financial services insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
