Counterparty Credit Risk
Credit Investment & Trading
Commercial Loans
Market Risk Modelling
Equity Research
Bandwidth & Budget Efficiency Through Global Talent
Consultant teams for business-as-usual
The world is full of talent. We put it at your service. Our next-generation offshoring services include rigorous and intensive training and oversight from European senior analysts. This results in low staff turnover. Client engagement is run by London bankers. These practices take the service above and beyond the mass market models of the past.
Option 1 - Onsite+Offshore
A team of offshore analysts dedicated to working exclusively for you. Analysts are from the top MBA schools in India, which are fiendishly hard to get into. They are trained and overseen by veteran analysts in Europe. We have high retention rates for staff. These high-end analysts are great communicators and are fully proactive.
Option 2 - Offshore Team
In this configuration, the team of consultants which Frontline assigns to you sits across two sites. One is your office, where local graduates sit on your desk. Talk to all the team. Where it’s easier to give feedback and guidance to the analysts sitting right next to you, feel free. The onsite analysts are fully integrated with their offshore colleagues and will pass the information on with full, or indeed amplified, integrity.
The local or offshore analysts can be recruited into your team after two years.
Upgrade Your Existing Offshore Support
Many banks and asset managers have captive centres in India. M&A and PE are long-time users of mass-market offshore support firms. Sometimes you need more though. Perhaps AI gathers your data or drafts your pitch decks, and you want to accelerate the deeper thinking that adds value. Perhaps you need analysts who are closer in skills and independence to your onsite analysts for high-touch tasks. That is when Frontline’s service is what you need.
IntegratingConsultants IntoYour Organisation
As an additional layer of communication, Frontline Analysts’ Client Engagement function is based in London and staffed by experienced European bankers and risk managers. We stay in regular conversation with you, making sure that the engagement meets your needs on an on-going basis.
Integrating Consultants Into Your Organisation
As an additional layer of communication, Frontline Analysts’ Client Engagement function is based in London and staffed by experienced European bankers and risk managers. We stay in regular conversation with you, making sure that the engagement meets your needs on an on-going basis.
City Analysts Are Made Not Born. We Make Them.
Trainers
City veterans
We use the same types of trainer that trained us – City veterans. All of our trainers have least 20 years’ experience in Europe, the US, Tokyo, HK and Singapore. They are ranked analysts or Risk Management MDs and published in their respective fields.
City Of London Training For Global Talent
Real world apprenticeships
The Frontline solution for activating global talent, developed since 2005, is that City veterans provide an intensive, hands-on, apprenticeship. This is unique amongst consultant providers. Training continues beyond the first year, with on-going mentoring and a world-class professional development program.
Established 2005
20 years of relationships & learning
Frontline Analysts was set up in 2005 by City bankers in order to meet a demand for higher-quality consultants. We have developed our practices in consultation with clients. These include top-5 banks from the US, Europe and Asia, global league asset managers and disruptive new players.
What We Believe
1. Elite Talent Is Global
World-class talent, unrestricted and exciting, can be found in any corner of the world, from Bangalore to Berlin, from Lucknow to London. We find it, we train it, challenge it and then we put it at your service.
2. Everything That Can Be Learned Can Be Taught
Analysts are made, not born. You served your apprenticeship under City/Wall St masters. You learned everything which you now treat as an instinct. This the key process of Frontline Analysts, where City masters train the best young global talent.
3. Distance And Diversity Are Both Challenges And Advantages
Using remote analysts, from a different culture, implies you and them both putting effort into communication. It also means you get access to more talented team members in a budget-efficient way. On top of that, you gain access to different perspectives and new ideas.
4. Retaining Elite Talent Is A Matter Of Fair And Open Treatment
Frontline makes a fair and open deal with talent and thus has great staff retention rates. We promise our analysts demanding intellectual situations, world-class training and that clients will directly hear what they have to say. In return, they give us talent and commitment.
How Clients Use Us
Credit Risk & Commercial Loans
Credit reports as per client templates
Market Risk
Model Risk
Corporate Bonds
Equity Research
Securitisation
Anti-Money Laundering
Our Senior Team Leads
Darren Sharma
Chief Executive Officer
Darren founded Frontline Analysts in 2005 and is CEO. Previously he was a ranked fixed income credit analyst for 11 years, focusing on European banks. He has a wide range of experience on trading floors and as a regulator. Darren was a director on WestLB’s fixed income credit research team from 2000 – 2005. Before that Darren was a bank credit analyst at BNP Paribas group in Buenos Aires, previously at Société Générale in London & Paris. Darren started his career in bond market regulation at the Bank of England in 1994. He read PPE at Oxford University before taking a Master’s degree in Economics.
Dan Davies
Equity
Dan Davies is Managing Director for Training and QA at Frontline Analysts. Dan started his career as a regulator at the Bank of England. He spent 15 years in the private sector as an equity analyst, winning the Institutional Investor survey in 2011 with Credit Suisse and the Extel Survey in 2011 with CS and in 2012, 2013 and 2014 with Exane BNP Paribas. He has a first class degree in PPE from Oxford University and an MSc (Finance) from the London Business School.
Dermot Gleeson
Credit Risk Management
Ranjith Perera
Risk Modelling
Ranjith Perera is a Chartered Statistician, specialising in risk modelling. He is a credit, market and operational risk professional having gained risk experience over 15 years in UK and the continent. He has experience in both wholesale & retail banking. Ranjith has worked at major global banks such as ABN-AMRO, LloydsTSB, RBS and Morgan Stanley. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of London.