About

A modern financial intelligence company, not a traditional consultancy.

Bankhawk provides independent financial intelligence that helps complex organisations understand and improve their banking and payment arrangements.

Banks and payments companies generate significant revenue from business clients, often without full scrutiny. Bankhawk audits, benchmarks and optimises those arrangements, combining specialist expertise, commercial benchmarking and analytics with HawkIQ, our technology platform.

We work only for the organisations we advise, never for banks or payment providers, so every recommendation rests on evidence that serves one side of the table: yours.

Expertise is Bankhawk. Technology is HawkIQ. The shared idea is independent financial intelligence.

Principles

How we work.

Independent

We are paid by the organisations we advise and no one else. No referral fees, no provider commissions.

Evidence-led

Every recommendation rests on data: billed charges, contracted terms and independent market benchmarks.

Continuous

Engagements create an evidence base that HawkIQ keeps current, so insight does not stop when a project ends.

Our model

Expertise and technology, deliberately separate.

Bankhawk

The expertise

Advisory, benchmarking, negotiation support and governance across banking and payments.

HawkIQ

The technology

Independent intelligence and verification that keeps findings current between reviews.

Leadership

The people behind the work.

Bankhawk is led by practitioners from banking, payments and analytics. The same people who set the method are the people in the room with you.

Brian Weakliam

Banking Pioneer

Helps finance leaders to create world class banking arrangements.

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Steve Glover

Payments Lead

Oversees the delivery of complex corporate banking and payments projects.

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Martin McCool

Data Lead

Manages the deployment of best in class technology and data security.

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David Dalton

Fintech Lead

Former Deloitte Ireland Chief Strategy Officer and Financial Services Industry leader.

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Jim Freeman

Advisor

Former senior banking executive specialising in the insurance sector, bringing deep domain knowledge to Bankhawk's banking services.

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John Edgar

Advisor

Highly experienced retail sector executive, formerly CFO of Harrods and Selfridges Group, with roles in Estates, Aviation and Banking.

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Mon O'Driscoll

Advisor

Former Head of Investment Banking at AIB plc, Chairman of Goodbody Stockbrokers and a director of AIB Capital Markets.

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HawkIQ

Technology Platform

Always-on verification of what payments cost and how providers bill, extending Bankhawk's expertise between reviews.

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Industry presence

Known in the rooms where treasury decisions are made.

Our team speaks at international treasury and payments forums, including EuroFinance, where we set out how organisations can recover value from banking and payment arrangements they already hold.

FSQS Registered: Third-party risk and compliance management for the financial services sector.
Dublin and London: Advisers working across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Recorded at EuroFinance in 2023. Some references may predate our current platform capability.