Marc Ireland
Senior Executive
Marc Ireland, Senior Executive
Marc is married with two children and now lives his life vicariously through them.
He spends lots of time on the edge of a football pitch or cricket field watching his son play (to a standard far higher than he could ever achieve).
He loves watching his daughter dance and spending time shopping with her (which has seriously honed his ability to say ‘no’ which is much needed in consultancy).
He loves to travel (to places where there is no risk of seismic events, extreme weather, dangerous animals, serious disease or crime) and is especially fond of the Isle of Wight.
Marc also likes trying different foods/wines, is just about managing to keep the 5 aside football team that he has played in for 20 years together and has recently taken up padel tennis.
Meet Marc
Marc is a Senior Executive that co-leads Avyse’s Compliance Practice. He has 25 years risk and regulatory compliance experience, across industry and consulting. Prior to joining Avyse, he built and led regulatory compliance or conduct teams at Deloitte, KPMG and EY. Marc is a seasoned consultant that has been there/ done that and uses these insights to delivery pragmatic and proportionate advice, guidance and opinions to firms of all sizes, natures and complexities across the financial services market. Marc is well connected across the market and regularly speaks to Directors or Heads of various supervisory portfolios at the FCA.
Experience:
Marc is a Skilled Person and has delivered 13 s166 and six shadow s166 reviews in areas such as PPI/card protection/add-on insurance sales, motor total loss claims handling, complaints handling, affordability, collections, debt advice, discretionary portfolio management, CASS and the design/execution of remediation schemes.
Marc has delivered a wide variety of engagements (gap analysis, due diligence, transformation, remediation, authorisation/variation of permission) at challenger banks, building societies, non-bank mortgage lenders, insurers, insurance brokers, retail and motor finance firms, other specialist lenders and outsourced service providers.
These cover all the key stages of the product or customer relationship lifecycle, and the supporting governance, organisational systems/controls and oversight arrangements in place.
He has also led more strategic engagements, at a bank winding down its deposit taking business, a bank building a consumer finance business, a retailer looking to ring-fence its financial services business, a motor finance firm looking to offer a wider range of lending products, a utility firm building a finance offering, a wealth manager looking to launch a peer-to-peer lending platform and an outsourced service provider seeking to offshore its complaints handling.