Why we are different

protocol is a solution conceived, created and built on real-world industry experience.

protocol Consulting is unlike any other firm you have encountered.
Many regulatory and technology experts have never sat in your seat or walked in your shoes; we have.

Neil Ginnis FCA
Director

When we start our conversation with you, we come with a comprehensive playbook, not a blank sheet of paper.

Our team has operated first line compliance in real life, run client administration teams, onboarded complex clients, collected and managed CDD, devised and carried out customer risk assessments and delivered periodic reviews among a multitude of other day-to-day processes. We have been in the regulatory hotseat and know intimately what responsibilities it involves.

We have run IT and technology arms of financial and professional services firms of all sizes, both in-house and on an outsourced basis and have been providing automation solutions for decades.

Our expertise in designing and delivering business process management and automation systems has delivered significant ROI for our clients. This experience equips us to design efficient, flexible and robust automated processes, which scale to meet ever-expanding business and regulatory requirements.

We know our subject matter from the business end, inside and out. This accumulated knowhow is woven into the fabric of protocol.

DIRECTOR

Neil is a Chartered Accountant who has served as a Director and Principal Person at Jersey funds services and fiduciary businesses for two decades.

DIRECTOR

Richard has over 40 years’ experience in the IT industry.
During his career he has held positions with government…

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Discover how protocol can revolutionise your risk and compliance function, boosting capacity and reducing regulatory risk while achieving a rapid, sustained return on investment.

Neil is a Chartered Accountant who has served as a Director and Principal Person at Jersey funds services and fiduciary businesses for two decades.

He is a seasoned client-facing industry practitioner with hands-on experience applying First-Line-Of-Defence risk and compliance processes and procedures and has interacted extensively with regulators.

Neil has established and operated private equity, real estate, debt and other investment funds in Jersey, Guernsey, Luxembourg and Cayman. He has also led teams in servicing investment and asset holding vehicles for sovereign wealth funds, state pension funds and multinational corporations.

Neil has played an influential role in system selection and implementation, leveraging technology to generate business performance improvement in all his leadership roles. Prior to the creation of protocol he spearheaded cultural change in attitudes to front line risk and operational excellence and delivered significant, regulatory required, enhancements to business, AML, and compliance procedures and their practical application.

Richard has over 40 years’ experience in the IT industry.

During his career he has held positions with government, as Senior Consultant with the largest offshore technology services provider and spent 12 years as Global IT Director at two of the channel islands largest legal firms.

Richard has headed his own consultancy practice since 2000 and specialises in the delivery of consultancy assignments in business process analysis, design and automation. He is also extremely experienced in change management, aligning IT and business strategy and project management.

As a consultant he has worked with a variety of organisations, from large banks and financial institutions to boutique law firms, fund administrators and fiduciary services businesses in jurisdictions including Jersey, Guernsey, UK, Europe and the Middle East.