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ECAP

Branding a global treasury consultancy and financial aggregator.

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A CFO is reviewing their banking relationships. Too many providers, too much friction, no single point of accountability. They've heard about ECAP through a contact. They search the name.

The website they find doesn't yet reflect the firm behind it. The referral described expertise, relationships, and scale. The digital presence hasn't caught up.

They don't leave. But they hesitate. In financial services, hesitation is expensive.

Credibility has to arrive before the conversation does.

Over-the-shoulder view of Ella Garvey working on the ECAP website, with Dan Collier and Brook Longhurst on screen

ECAP is a treasury consultancy and financial aggregator, bringing together foreign exchange, payments, and banking access through a single client relationship. Over 30 years of combined experience. Eight regulated partners. 140 currencies accessible. A client base spanning corporate, institutional, and private clients across global markets.

The proposition is built on trust, expertise, and discretion. The brand and website needed to communicate all of it clearly, to the right people, from the first moment of contact.

Make the outside match the inside

The brief was clear: build a brand and website that reflect the calibre of the firm behind them. Not louder. More considered. More credible. More precise.

Brand identity

The existing logo carried the right bones but lacked resolution. We refined it, sharpening the geometry of the E mark to feel modern, distinct, and authoritative without losing its familiarity. The result is a mark that holds confidence at any scale, from a business card to a large-format application, and sits naturally in the regulated, high-trust environments ECAP operates in.

Visual system

Deep navy, structured typography, and restrained use of accent colour. Designed with heavy white space so the system transfers cleanly to print as well as digital. The result It signals institutional credibility without tipping into the impersonal. Clear, considered, and grounded in real conversation rather than financial jargon.

Photography

Original photography of the founding team, shot to convey the relationship-led nature of the business. Two people working through a problem together. Not posed. Not stock. The kind of image that makes a prospective client think: these are people I could trust with a complex problem.

What the brand does now

ECAP now presents an identity that matches its track record. The website opens conversations rather than creating questions. Prospective clients arrive at a platform that communicates expertise, structure, and accountability before a word is exchanged.

The brand is consistent across every touchpoint. Business cards, collateral, digital, and physical materials all draw from the same resolved system. It holds together because it was built as one thing, not assembled from parts.

The quiet cost of outgrowing your image

In financial services, perception precedes access. Clients operating at scale choose their partners carefully. The wrong first impression doesn't just lose a conversation. It closes a door that may not reopen.

ECAP had built something significant. Over $2 billion in transactions. A network of regulated partners. A team with decades of combined experience. None of that was visible to someone arriving for the first time.

It is now.

  • A closer view of the ECAP homepage design as Ella Garvey works on it at DotPerformance
Andy Orton founder of DotPerformance, smiling wearing a DotPerformance branded polo shirt at DotPerformance studios on the Isle of Man, against a dark background with teal neon lighting

DotPerformance is an Isle of Man-based agency that works with marketing teams on campaign concept, art direction, and creative production. The agency develops campaign ideas and design systems from its studio in Douglas.

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