Examples of our work
Context
A global professional services firm sought to strengthen its fintech offering across multiple regions, while developing more credible ways to engage with early- and mid-stage fintechs alongside large incumbent clients.
Our role
Sandbox Consulting supported the firm in shaping its fintech strategy and go-to-market approach, with a particular focus on how to work effectively with smaller innovators. This included analysis of the competitive landscape, defining service propositions, and designing the concept, function, and operating model for an innovation and experimentation lab.
Outcome
The work helped the firm clarify its market positioning, align internal stakeholders around a coherent fintech narrative, and establish a practical model for acceleration, incubation, and experimentation that balanced commercial objectives with credibility among fintech founders.
Context
A MENA-region public-sector authority responsible for supporting small and medium enterprises sought to better understand the state of its national fintech ecosystem and identify how it could more effectively enable growth and innovation.
Our role
Working alongside an international consulting team, Sandbox Consulting provided subject-matter expertise across fintech, regulation, and innovation. The work included ecosystem mapping, baseline and gap analysis, assessment of regulatory and non-regulatory constraints, and the design of potential products, services, and enablers aligned to national objectives.
Outcome
The engagement produced a structured view of ecosystem strengths and weaknesses and a set of actionable recommendations to support more coherent, targeted, and effective fintech development, grounded in local institutional realities.
Context
An international financial institution sought to convene regulators and central banks from around the world to explore the future of supervisory technology (suptech) through hands-on collaboration.
Our role
Sandbox Consulting supported the design and execution of a global tech sprint, shaping problem statements, structuring the sprint process, facilitating collaboration between regulators and technologists, and synthesising learning from the sprint into written outputs.
Outcome
The sprint generated practical insights into how supervisory authorities can deploy data, analytics, and emerging technologies more effectively, alongside reflections on the cultural, organisational, and infrastructural conditions required to support the “supervisor of tomorrow.”
Context
A central bank sought to assess its national financial inclusion landscape and develop a strategy to improve financial access and financial health.
Our role
Sandbox Consulting supported diagnostic analysis of the existing ecosystem and worked with public and private stakeholders to identify policy, regulatory, technological, and institutional interventions. The work focused on practical coordination between regulators, financial institutions, and wider ecosystem actors.
Outcome
The resulting strategy provided a coherent, system-level approach to financial inclusion, linking policy intent with concrete actions and enabling greater alignment across stakeholders.
Context
A central bank aimed to refine its approach to fintech innovation, including the operation of its regulatory sandbox and its broader fintech strategy.
Our role
Sandbox Consulting acted as a technical and strategic advisor, supporting the review and improvement of sandbox design, advising senior leadership on fintech vision and strategy, and facilitating discussions on how regulation, innovation, and market development could evolve together.
Outcome
The engagement helped sharpen strategic direction, improve the effectiveness of innovation mechanisms, and build shared understanding among senior leaders of how to foster responsible fintech development.
Context
Several early-stage technology companies operating in highly regulated environments sought support navigating regulatory engagement, product strategy, and credibility with supervisors.
Our role
Sandbox Consulting worked with founders to clarify go-to-market strategies, regulatory narratives, and engagement approaches, advising on governance, compliance design, and interactions with regulators across jurisdictions.
Outcome
The work supported more constructive regulator dialogue, clearer positioning of complex technologies, and, in one case, contributed to securing a regulatory licence in a challenging and novel regulatory context.
Context
A consumer-focused organisation sought to establish and scale an internal data science capability to support decision-making and maximise organisational impact.
Our role
Sandbox Consulting provided advice on data strategy, team design, technology choices, and organisational culture. This included guidance on attracting and retaining scarce talent, embedding data scientists in a non-technical organisation, and avoiding common structural and cultural pitfalls.
Outcome
The organisation gained a clearer roadmap for building and scaling its data capability in a way that balanced ambition with practicality and ensured data science could deliver real value over time.
Context
A global non-profit organisation focused on regulatory innovation sought to expand its international work, particularly in emerging markets.
Our role
Sandbox Consulting supported programme design, strategic development, fundraising, and delivery across multiple initiatives. This included advising regulators, delivering training and coaching, designing and facilitating sprints and workshops, and supporting leadership and team development.
Outcome
The work helped scale international programmes, deepen relationships with regulators and funders, and translate innovative concepts into practical, context-sensitive interventions.