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What can we expect from innovation in Financial Services? How Ever Up  and IdeasVoice boost ambitious projects?

After 20 years in audit and consulting in Financial Services, I created Ever Up in 2009 to offer support to the global financial services community in innovation and entrepreneurial projects. My involvement in the French government-sponsored think-tank known as the Cluster Finance Innovation makes me particularly qualified to assist start-up professionals in finance, insurance and services.

Do business professionals really need a specialised consultant or coach in financial innovation? In France, we are seeing collective initiatives taking place around the Cluster Finance Innovation and other professional groups that demonstrate the benefit of such collaboration.

After many years in the field, I have felt compelled to assist banks, financial institutions and insurers in being more creative, and in successfully implementing new business models. In the current climate of shrinking budgets, however, such intervention is a luxury businesses are choosing to put on hold. I believe that when industry refuses to invest in innovation, consumers are faced with a mediocre choice of products on the market.

Why did I feel necessary to launch IdeasVoice afterwards? IdeasVoice is helping Entrepreneurs to find their partners and to reinforce their executive team. Being a new internet platform launched by the end of 2011, IdeasVoice will accelerate the growth of those companies who join the entrepreneurship network. IdeasVoice is not dedicated to financial projects but can help any ambitous project or existing SME.

I hope that readers of Ever Up blog will contribute constructive input and insight to further the cause of dynamic innovation in financial institutions. I am certainly committed to this fascinating challenge, and to developing opportunities and partnerships.