Financial Services

Our Focus Areas
Financial Services
Unlock the most powerful levers you have to thrive: your people

New market realities and opportunities have accelerated even further a years-long transformation across the financial services industry. Today, as leaders reimagine business models, respond to shifts in customer preference, and consider new potential disruptors, digital acceleration and agility are key to creating future-ready and inclusive leaders, teams, organizations, and cultures.

Through its collaborative approach and deep expertise, our globally connected Financial Services team works across the full financial services ecosystem, offering our clients a holistic approach to talent and leadership, organization and culture, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our own journey implementing innovative technologies brings our data-driven and tech-enabled approach, as well as our access to a global talent pool, to both the world’s largest companies and start-ups alike. Together, we enable our clients to work with resilience and agility remotely and in person to become future-focused, inclusive, and thriving.

Conducted more than 1,000+ confirmed searches in 2020 across the Financial Services industry
Ranked among Hunt Scanlon's Top Financial Services Search Firms
Leadership Development

An interview with Tetsuya Koizumi, president of Capital International K.K. and head of the Asia-Pacific Client Group at Capital Group

In the second of a series of interviews on leadership in Japan's fast-growing asset management industry, Tetsuya Koizumi, president of Capital International K.K. and head of the Asia-Pacific Client Group at Capital Group, discusses his career journey stemming from a Japanese to an international platform as one of the few Japanese leaders managing the APAC region, and his passion for the equestrian sport outside of work.

Is your company future-ready?

Digital acceleration and agility are key

The collaborative approach and expertise of our Financial Services Practice enables clients to become more agile, adaptable, and transformative by finding the world's best leaders, building diverse and inclusive cultures, and transforming their teams to achieve new levels of performance.

Sustainable growth and sensitivity

An interview with Michinobu Suzuki, head of Japan and senior managing director of Nuveen

In the first of a series of interviews on leadership in Japan's burgeoning asset management industry, Nuveen's Head of Japan and Senior Managing Director, Michinobu “Michi” Suzuki discusses the market's appetite for alternative investment, the value of a measured approach, and the constant need for cross-cultural education.

We believe in the opportunity of diversity to broaden the collective organizational perspective. In 2018, we pledged that at least 50% of our initial slate of longlisted board candidates would be diverse.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion 
30%
Placements within the global financial services sector in the past year who were gender diverse (24% within the U.S.)

Financial Services insights

Financial Services

Leadership perspectives: An interview with Lieve Mostrey, former CEO of Euroclear

Lieve Mostrey, a non-executive director at Danske Bank and the former CEO of Euroclear, discusses driving an organizational culture focused on delivering value to the client as well as her experience holding a leadership role in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
François-Xavier Ragot
Crypto & Digital Assets

Finding the right fintech talent: A conversation with Ben Grolimund, general manager of UAE, Rain

Ben Grolimund, the general manager of the UAE at Rain, the first fully regulated virtual assets brokerage and custodian in the Abu Dhabi global markets, discusses what’s been driving the Middle East crypto landscape and the current talent market in that area.
Mikhail Kozlovskiy
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Guy Shaul
Compensation Trends

2024 US Global Markets Compensation Survey

Our first annual US Global Markets Compensation Survey examines organization and compensation data from a survey of sales, trading, and research professionals in the United States.
Shannon Bade Neason
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Elisabetta Bartoloni
Asset & Wealth Management

From legal work to digital asset management strategy: A conversation with Cynthia Lo Bessette, the head of Fidelity Digital Asset Management

Cynthia Lo Bessette shares her journey from being a young lawyer to leading digital asset investments and solutions at Fidelity.
Lee Hanson
Meet our leadership
Todd Taylor
Global Managing Partner
Shadi El Farr
Regional Managing Partner, Asia Pacific & Middle East
Dominique Fortier
Regional Managing Partner, Americas
Wolfgang Schmidt-Soelch
Regional Managing Partner, Europe & Africa

Related Services & Industries

Contact our team to discuss how we can assist your company with all of your talent needs.