
Partnership approach
Financial services firms face an ever-growing set of challenges. These arise from four key directions.
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Regulation driving up the cost base
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The economic and political environment tightening margins
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Generational change in working habits placing pressure on resource
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Technological development, including the advent of AI, creating a plethora of options and confusion
To address this, many to turn to technology as the ‘fix-all’ solution.
With the explosion of technology, including AI, it has become very difficult to navigate the options and very tempting to buy multiple ‘point solutions’ or to turn to 'DIY development' to solve specific issues.
Stonebridge combines extensive industry experience with working in partnership with businesses, selected solution providers and our experts network (The Stonebridge Alliance) to help find the most effective outcomes based on 'Partnership Principles'.

Solution partners
Stonebridge is working with a small group of hand-picked partners to deliver effective, appropriate business management technology solutions.
Software options have proliferated in recent years. With the advent of AI, there is an expectation for technology that does not always match reality.
Businesses face significant challenges. There is an overriding requirement to deliver more with less resource. This comes with a temptation to purchase more and more 'point solutions' that work in isolation to other solutions, existing business practices and processes.
These solutions can be implemented in isolation or together as integrated solutions.
The solutions work independently or can be integrated

PETER BRUGES FCCA
Finance and Operations professional
Peter Bruges is a finance and operations professional. He has over 30 years of experience working in the retail and finance sectors.
Peter is working with clients to help them understand the current technology environment and to prioritise implementation of solutions, focussing on what will deliver the most value, be it to mitigate risk, deliver efficiency gains or to help improve client and employee experience.
Peter has extensive experience from his roles as Finance Programme Manager at Specsavers, CFO at Channel Islands Cooperative and Praxis and more recently in transforming a small Guernsey company through implementation of digital solutions.
He holds BA (Economics & Accounting) from Reading University, is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, a Prince2 Practitioner and yellow belt 6 Sigma.

A selection of clients we are working with










