About Eaton Vasey
Tier-1 institutional expertise, boutique delivery, and the independence to always act in your interest.
Our Story
Eaton Vasey was founded in 2025 by Mark, whose 20+ year career spans Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and RBS. The firm was built on a simple observation: mid-market financial services firms face tier-1 regulatory and operational complexity, but cannot justify Big Four pricing and rarely get the specialist depth they need from generalist contractors.
Eaton Vasey fills that gap. We deliver genuine tier-1 expertise — in derivatives operations, structured products, regulatory transformation, and AI adoption — at 30–40% lower cost than the Big Four, with partner-level delivery throughout. No juniors. No handoffs. No methodology decks.
Our approach combines independent, conflict-free advisory with practical implementation capability through our exclusive technology partnership with AscendencyAI. Clients receive a single accountable partner for both strategic advisory and technical delivery.
2025
Founded in the UK
Natural Intelligence
Our philosophy and our most important differentiator.
The financial services industry in 2026 is saturated with AI claims. Every consultancy, every RegTech vendor, and every freelancer has an “AI-powered” offering. In this environment, undifferentiated AI positioning is not a strength — it is noise.
Eaton Vasey's response is the Natural Intelligence framework. We use AI extensively — for research, summarisation, regulatory monitoring, document generation, and workflow automation. This makes us faster, more consistent, and more scalable than a traditional boutique of our size.
But the judgement, the contextual knowledge, the reading of a room, the relationship with a client, the instinct that something is wrong before the data confirms it — these come from years inside the machines of Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and RBS. No model has lived that.
AI manages our operations and delivery. Humans are the deliverable.
What We Stand For
The principles that guide every engagement.
Natural Intelligence
AI runs our operations and delivery. Humans are the deliverable. The irreplaceable knowledge, judgement, and contextual understanding that comes from two decades inside the world's most complex financial institutions — that is what we sell.
Tier-1 Depth, Boutique Delivery
Partner-level expertise throughout every engagement. No juniors, no handoffs, no methodology decks. The person who pitches is the person who delivers — backed by genuine experience from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and RBS.
Independent & Conflict-Free
Our revenue comes from advisory fees alone. We don't sell products, take commissions, or have vendor relationships that compromise our recommendations. Our advice is always in your interest because there is no competing interest.
The AscendencyAI Partnership
Eaton Vasey maintains an exclusive strategic partnership with AscendencyAI for all AI and automation delivery. This means clients receive a single accountable partner — Eaton Vasey — for both the strategic advisory and the technical implementation.
Eaton Vasey governs. AscendencyAI builds. The combined proposition consistently undercuts Big Four rates by 30–40% whilst matching or exceeding their technical capability.
This partnership enables us to offer what most boutique consultancies cannot: the full stack from strategy through to automated implementation, without the overhead of an in-house technology team or the unpredictability of subcontracted development.
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Our Founder
Mark
Founder & Principal
Mark founded Eaton Vasey in 2025 after a 20+ year career spanning Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and RBS. His experience covers derivatives operations, structured products processing, regulatory transformation, and AI adoption across tier-1 institutions. At Goldman Sachs he built and scaled cross-asset operations with deep exposure to OTC lifecycle and risk management. At Deutsche Bank he led MiFID II and EMIR implementation programmes across multiple jurisdictions. At RBS he delivered automation saving 200+ person-hours weekly and an AI-driven compliance platform that reduced onboarding time by 75%.
Institutional Experience
Who We Work With
Mid-tier financial institutions with £500M–£10B AUM who face tier-1 complexity without tier-1 internal resource.
Mid-Tier Institutions
Regional and specialist banks, independent wealth managers, boutique asset managers, alternative investment platforms, and FCA-authorised fintechs.
Private Equity
PE firms executing financial services M&A strategies who need specialist operational due diligence that general consulting firms cannot provide.
FS Professionals
Individual compliance officers, senior operations professionals, and consultants — users of our forthcoming product suite.
Eaton Vasey in Numbers
Ready to Talk?
Book a 30-minute discovery call — a genuine conversation about your challenges, not a sales pitch. If we can help, we will tell you how. If we cannot, we will tell you that too.