adam holden

Chief Financial Officer

Adam is our Chief Financial Officer and a highly qualified banking and financial services expert with over 25 years in experience in related roles and businesses. Adam leads our Finance and Operations teams, focusing his time on influencing and communicating our strategic performance, and implementing initiatives that increase the organisation’s efficient scalability.

Adam joined Cosegic in 2022 following four years at NorthRow, where he held the positions of Chief Finance Officer and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this Adam also worked for Tandem Bank and The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he held Finance Director positions across the group for over 12 years.

In addition to his vast professional experience, Adam is also highly academically qualified, with BA, MA and Meng degrees from the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Outside of work Adam is a keen cyclist, having completed a number of famous events including the Nove Colli, the Marmotte, an ascent of the Col de Joux Plane and a stage of the Tour de Yorkshire… so far. He also plays bass guitar in a band, although not as regularly as he would like.

Featured Resources

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Operational Resilience: regulatory guidelines for critical third parties aim to avoid systemic disruption

On 12th November 2024, The Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’), the Bank of England (the Bank) and Prudential Regulatory Authority (‘PRA’)

Events

Bitesize webinar: Establishing a robust prudential monitoring framework

What this webinar covered Financial resilience has always been a key focus area for the FCA’s supervision of investment firms.

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Identifying the weaknesses in firms’ transaction reporting governance and control frameworks

Following the introduction of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (“MiFIR”) in 2014, in-scope firms have been required to submit

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MS24/2.1 Premium Finance Market Study

Last month the FCA published a proposed Terms of Reference (ToR) for a new market study into the provision of

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Managing reputational risk

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!” William Shakespeare, Othello (Cassio, Act II, Scene iii) Firms with positive

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FCA announce limited temporary flexibility on the ‘Naming and Marketing’ rules

In September, the FCA announced an extension to the implementation timeline for the new naming and marketing rules under its

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The dust is far from settling on the motor finance fiasco

Shockwaves flew through the car finance industry last month when the Court of Appeal ruling on secret commissions being received

Events

Webinar: Operational Resilience – the final countdown

This is a pre-recorded webinar that is now available to view on demand. Click here to access the recording of

Talking Regulation

Talking Regulation: Cosegic’s response to FCA CP 24/20

The last quarter of 2024 was dominated by coverage on APP Fraud and the FCA’s Safeguarding Consultation Paper. On the

Factsheet

Corporate Finance Advisors – Retail Permissions

Information for CFAs. This factsheet has been produced to help Corporate Finance Advisors (CFAs) understand what is required when it

Press

Cosegic hires Maya Braine as new Managing Director, Financial Crime

Cosegic, one of the UK’s leading compliance consultancies, is delighted to announce the appointment of Maya Braine as Managing Director

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FCA Letter to the Chancellor on Competitiveness – What’s in it for Payments?

Keen followers of the political news will have seen that the Chancellor of the Exchequer recently held a meeting with