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Hampden Bank
Cementing Sustainable Growth in Relationship-Led Private Banking
Name
Hampden Bank
Sector
Private Banking
Size
>£1bn assets
168 colleagues
Ownership
Private Investors
Fun Fact
When Hampden & Co. launched in 2015, it was the first new UK private bank in about 30 years.
The Challenge
In 2022, Hampden & Co. was on track to deliver its inaugural profit after 7 years of operation, marking the end of its first strategic horizon. We partnered with Hampden’s Chief Commercial Officer and the wider leadership and senior team to develop a sustainable strategy for their next horizon, exploring challenges such as human vs. digital, societal impact, disruptive trends in UK financial services, and standing out for the right reasons in a crowded market.
Our Approach (We...)
- Started with the big picture – understanding Hampden’s role in the economy, society and planet.
- Used this to underpin a genuinely holistic strategy refresh process.
- Iterated with a group of their best thinkers (hierarchy agnostic), leadership and board.
- Pioneered a new way of quantitively exploring client behaviours and characteristics with unexpected results.
- Developed a practical and communicable strategic framework and set of prioritised plans.
What was different
- Identified and worked with people who were curious and driven, not (just) those already in leadership roles.
- Considered societal impact and the planet in the same breath as commercials – not as an afterthought.
- Facilitated genuine debate and challenge sessions at Board, rather than giving them the answers.
- Built frameworks and plans with a multi-year view and flexibility, not trying to do everything at once.
Results
- New strategy inspiring Board confidence and employee motivation.
- De-prioritisation of projects to reduce stretch and safeguard what was assessed to really matter most.
- Hampden continues to pass scale and profitability milestones.
What they had to say:
"Perigon Partners has worked with us on three separate engagements over the last year [(2022/3 to mid 2024)], to help us formulate our sustainability strategy, to provide a detailed review and refinement of our overall corporate strategy, and most recently by performing data-driven analysis of our existing client book to identify segmentation opportunities. Perigon’s input has been consistently thoughtful, incisive and pragmatic, and their senior-level financial services industry experience has proven invaluable. I have no hesitation in recommending them.”
Andrew Bell, Chief Commercial Officer
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