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© 2014 Salonika Consultancy Limited, a UK registered company
Salonika Consultancy Ltd45 Pont StreetKnightsbridge
LondonSW1X 0BD
+44 (0) 207 7888 432
Our Value Proposition
Strategic Business ServicesCapital Markets Advisory
Capital Markets Advisory
We provide professional advice to holders of complex risk exposures, and have worked with a range of clients include financial institutions, government entities, central banks, and other public & private capital markets participants around the world. We operate in these areas:
Risk Governance
We can advise on risk governance procedures and bespoke target operating models for financial market activities.
Capital Raising & Structuring
As investment banking ex-practitioners, Salonika's advisers are well experienced in the area of structuring. Our advisors have executed large value Debt and Equity raising solutions. We offer full structuring capacity across various asset classes and vehicles. Salonika can offer these services not only to the sell side but also to the buy side.
Treasury
We review the processes underlying the sourcing and use of funding, and will propose frameworks and initiatives to provide businesses with guidelines that will enable them to better manage their contribution to the institution’s cost of funding and liquidity risk. We can provide in-depth analysis of capital usage on a business unit level and review the capital efficiency of individual businesses.
Valuation
We offer targeted modeling and IT development solutions, from the review of cost and efficiency of existing platforms to the specification and delivery of standalone models and software. We provide Pricing & Valuation and Modeling & Model Validation services
Portfolio & Trading Book Management
We have expertise in derivatives trading, structuring and quantities analysis across all asset classes and can provide an independent assessment of both vanilla and complex asset portfolios. Our portfolio analysis covers all aspects of valuation and trade capture.
Counterparty Credit Risk Management and CVA
We can assist in this complex process which requires expertise in regulatory changes and knowledge of numerous areas of in an institution including trading desks, market risk, credit risk, collateral management and treasury.
Strategic Business Services
Our Strategic Business arm has been involved in a wide range of engagements drawing on Economic, Financial and Accounting expertise. We have extensive experience in:- Corporate strategy- Business Implementation- Transaction Advisory Services- Accounting and Audit
We engage with our clients to provide support throughout the business cycle whether you require help with identifying investment opportunities or whether you are managing your business through a severe crisis. Here are some of the areas where we can provide support:
- Strategies for growth- Identifying investment opportunities- Delivering synergies and post merger integration- Setting up, restructuring and exiting strategic alliances and joint ventures- Concerns about your cash flow and operating performance- Substantially restructure the business and operating model- Making disposals- Managing the business through severe crisis- Refinancing loans- Structuring debt- Transformational growth strategies- Creating a series of acquisitions using optimal pricing structures- Sourcing capital
- Industries we operate in include:
- Oil and gas- Financial Services- Real Estate & Hospitality- Utilities- Government and Defense- Communications- Utilities- FMCG
Our Value Proposition
Shariah Compliant SolutionsMacroeconomic & Geopolitical Research
Shariah Compliant Solutions
Salonika can act as your gateway and partners in Shariah Finance. Islamic finance principles have an established pedigree, and aim to ensure fair access to funding at equitable rates, while at the same time protecting and motivating investors to engage in the economic process.
Islamic finance focuses on the efficient use of capital. We are at the forefront of thought leadership within the industry and work within the Shariah Framework as approved by the AAOIFI. We are well versed in a variety of traditional Sharia Financing structures including Musharaka and Muradaba, servicing client needs globally.
We differentiate ourselves from our competitors as we are not an output focused organisation, and therefore do not cynically design Islamic financial solutions to replicate current conventional financial models as ours is a top down. As we have in-depth of knowledge of conventional banking, we understand the need to stay clear of re-packaging conventional finance solutions for clients who demand Shariah Finance solutions. Therefore we are confident that our product is superior as compared to our competitors.
We are able to combine our expertise with our strategic partners in the Middle East and in London. We operate in:
Shariah Compliant Capital Market Solutions
- This can includes balance sheet restructuring, and compliant risk governance solutions.
Structuring & Capital Raising
- Advise and work with you on Shariah compliant structuring of financial products.- Advise on structuring Shariah compliant investment strategies & Capital raising.
Regulatory & Developmental Assistance
- Assisting governments develop and implement policy for the introduction and development of Islamic Finance into their respective financial systems.
- Assist governments and regulatory authorities address the issues of Islamic Finance within the existing confines of legal and political structures.
- Assist in seeking regulatory endorsements to offer Islamic Finance from a range of financial centres.
- Assist in advising regulators and governments on Islamic Finance in order to seek regulatory licences for institutions.
Macroeconomic & Geopolitical Research
Salonika Consultancy delivers accurate, unbiased intelligence on macroeconomic and geo-political events by cultivating relationships with senior policymakers and decision makers around the globe.
Our network includes central banks, finance ministries, private financial institutions, regulatory and intelligence agencies, subject expects, and international finance and trade organisations.
Salonika is a thought leader, and global provider of macro policy and geo-political intelligence for hedge funds, institutional investors, governmental institutions, private investors and asset managers.We have a special focus on Frontier & Emerging Markets.
We Cover:
- Frontier & Emerging Markets Macroeconomic & Geopolitical – inc. Africa, East Asia and South Asia; The Greater Middle East region; Central and Eastern Europe
- Energy -- OPEC and non-OPEC; oil and commodity fundamentals; production and country risk including geopolitics; regulatory risk.
- G20 Macroeconomic -- including US Federal Reserve; European Central Bank; Bank of Japan;
-G20 Geopolitical - including US, EU, China and Japan; Canada; Australia; Switzerland.
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Registered office: 45 Pont St, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0BD
