Companies from the smallest hedge fund to customers including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and UBS have come to Hatstand for two main reasons. First, our exclusive focus on the financial sector and no other industry. Second, the extreme care we have taken to build a talented pool of senior professionals with not only solid technical skills but with direct experience of the broader IT function and a sound understanding of the client's business.

We call this three-dimensional expertise our 3D-IT - encompassing IT skill, IT function and business knowledge - which all our consultants share and which other IT consultancies fail to match.