Ukrainian Consulting Agency

Assisting with many of today's largest, most challenging issues impacting asset and wealth management, banking and capital markets & insurance

About us

Whether your company is just starting up or is a business powerhouse, UCRA can help you manage and sustain your company’s growth.

UCRA is a business advisory firm with a professional team with decades of experience who provide strategic advice to clients through a range of assurance, tax, advisory, and consulting services.

UCRA help create powerful business solutions for organisations through an integrated approach that combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business knowledge and industry expertise to help our clients exceed their expectations.

How We can Help

UCRA is able to assist with many of today's largest, most challenging issues impacting asset and wealth management, banking and capital markets, and insurance through our range of financial services.

Innovation, transformation and leadership occur in many ways. At UCRA our ability to help solve clients’ most complex issues is well-defined.

Steered by our values of integrity, creativity, achievement, empathy and respect, UCRA invites both collaboration and healthy debate. Our expertise and experience means we are trusted by our clients to solve their biggest issues.

We deliver strategy and implementation, from a business and technology perpsective, to help you lead in the markets where you compete.

Our services

UCRA provides advisory services around assurance, tax, advisory, and consulting services:

Securities processing

The securities regulatory landscape has provided significant challenges over the past few years, with broker-dealers facing new or modified rules and requirements that could significantly affect how they do business. In some regulatory areas, the requirements have been clarified and firms are now focusing on compliance and refinement. In other areas, the regulations are still emerging or evolving, and firms are looking for clues that can help them prepare.

UCRA will support your business in understanding the securities regulatory landscape specifically for your business.

At UCRA we help you manage outsourcing effectively to secure your organisation’s financial performance, operating model integrity and reputation. This includes deciphering the complexity of outsourcing options, integration issues and governance requirements.

Regulatory and compliance

UCRA offers clients a broad range of fully integrated regulatory services. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business and industry knowledge to help your company excel.

UCRA assists organisations in adapting to a changing regulatory environment through strategy to help organisations anticipate and adapt to regulatory change, operational efficiency to achieve a cost-effective balance between compliance and risk and remediation in response to enforcement.

Our technical knowledge and skills, across a variety of disciplines, help us look at each situation objectively, identify unique opportunities and challenges, and devise an approach that address these quickly and as efficiently as possible.

We ensure that you understand the implications and requirements of new regulations so that you can design, implement and assess appropriate processes, policies, and procedures for your business.

Payments

Continued improvements in credit quality are a cause for optimism in the payments industry. UCRA is seeing a shift from addressing compliance and risk weaknesses back onto the growth agenda in recent times. This focus on growth has also been accompanied by an increase in payments innovation.

This will however, lead to uncertainty in the traditional payments field as plastic gives way to mobile payments. Expectations by merchants, and the roles played by the incumbent payments companies, is beginning to change, with growing unwillingness by merchant exchanges and other non-traditional joint ventures to pay traditional interchange fees to the credit card industry.

It is not all gloom. The rise in mobile payments will significantly enhance the consumer experience, led by the major brands across the hospitality and travel industries. As promising as these new solutions are for consumers, they threaten to add cost to the issuers, and may impact on brand products and experience.

Risk management

Leading organisations understand that risk is a source of competitive advantage. By managing risk more effectively these organisations unleash their full potential, creating and protecting value for all of their stakeholders.

Audit

Audit is about much more than just the numbers. It is about measuring accomplishments and challenges, to give you assurance of strong foundations for future growth and development. UCRA will keep you informed with regular reviews as to the what, how, and why of change so that you are always prepared for change.

Gambling consultancy

UCRA offers high quality management consultancy services to operators, regulators and third party suppliers in the gambling industry in every sector of the industry whether it be casino, bingo, betting and lotteries and across channels, including land-based, online, mobile and interactive television.

Financial management sport athletes

Athletes can experience a dramatic change both socially and mentally if they have made no financial plans, but at UCRA, we believe athletes’ bankruptcies are entirely preventable. UCRA has an excellent reputation for helping athletes plan for the future through smart financial management.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing has become a standard business practice and management imperative. Organisations need to consider the risks and challenges at each key phase of the outsourcing life-cycle, from defining the strategy to managing ongoing operations.

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