The rise of emerging technology businesses and the increasing complexity of regulatory implications are challenging the Financial Services industry around the world. The search for future-oriented and digital-savvy leadership is disrupting the sector at its core – with more traditional firms experiencing disruption on all fronts and, in particular, from an ever increasing FinTech presence driving the transformation of businesses worldwide.
More than ever, the Financial Services sector requires leaders who can adapt to change with agility and understand how to deal with the global pressures of structural and regulatory transformation, technological innovation and industry consolidation - driving the further need for executives who can apply critical thinking to new market opportunities and drive the transition to the next growth phase.
The ESG and diversity momentum that profoundly impact Financial Services will further increase the search for innovative and purposeful leadership 'for what's next.'
Amrop's dedicated partners and consultants offer specialized knowledge and experience, and foster long lasting relationships with key industry players worldwide.
As specialized partners in Amrop's Financial Services Practice, we draw upon years of personal experience and deep industry knowledge to ensure our clients' success. We have longstanding experience helping clients find solutions for critical roles at leadership and functional levels within the sector, from Presidents to CEO's, CFOs, COOs, CMOs, and CIOs.
We hold deep market insights and longstanding relationships in all relevant financial market segments around the world. Supported by context-driven search strategies, we can introduce senior professionals to clients that would find themselves at home in New York, London, Amsterdam, Zurich or Singapore, who are an excellent fit for our clients' local requirements.
Amrop's partners are committed to ensuring that our clients are ahead of the game in these times of change and transformation, anticipating what's next in this rapidly evolving sector.
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Financial Services Practice Team
Unprecedented disruptive digitization significantly drives innovative business models in the Financial Services sector today. Emerging trends, including increasing regulatory mechanisms, cybersecurity risk applications, social and geopolitical complexities, accelerate the demand for diverse talent and leadership expertise to meet future needs and drive growth.
Our long time expertise and experience worldwide have gained us the reputation as forward-thinking, expert advisors in talent strategy for the Asset and Wealth Management, Private Banking, Trust and Fund Services sector.
A rebounding pandemic world is challenging business structures and shaping the behavioural investment strategies of high-net-worth entrepreneurs and family offices. Regardless of locations, ensuring wealth sustainability, good governance and transitioning the reign to the next generation demands structural alignment to a fast-changing world that requires innovative structures, sustainable investment policies and leadership know-how to meet future demands.
Amrop references a distinguished history working with the most renowned family enterprises - single and larger, multi-family offices - around the globe and has been assisting owners and leadership with board advisory services, talent and leadership recruiting and advisory, intervention and succession planning.
Amrop's Private Equity & Venture Capital practice works closely with a diverse range of clients from large and mid-cap PE to Fintech start-ups and incubators. Whether we support them on M&A, Due Diligence, Operating Partners on the fund side or with Portfolio Managers, Asset Allocators or Analysts on the Debt portfolio sides, we are aligned to our client's unique cultures and leadership needs.
Equally, we leverage knowledge and client relations across sectors and Amrop's specialized practice groups by engaging with clients on the portfolio site of their businesses – helping them attract and retain transformational talent across the C-Suite and Non-Executive teams.
Amrop's retail and corporate banking practice is well attuned to the changing market that clients face. Following the regulatory restructuring of the sector since the crisis, both retail and corporate banks face the challenge of a changing landscape driven by customer sentiment and disruptive technology defined by big data analytics.
Today's Leaders face multiple tasks about market trends and consumer preferences, particularly to make good decisions for clients to maintain the trust in their organization while delivering value, service, and transparency across service lines.
While current trends highlight the need for financial institutions to transform and change rapidly, it is key to adapting legacy platforms and operations to future-fit concepts for sustainability and competitiveness. These conditions drive the need for agile, decisive and multi-skilled leaders as a fundamental requirement ensuring business success and growth.
The Investment Banking practice of Amrop is proud of its long legacy as trusted advisors in this sector and has worked alongside its clients through many market cycles. Now more than ever, we are helping Corporate Finance and Capital Market clients with leadership and team expertise solutions required to navigate the intense current economic and geopolitical climate.
Together with our front office teams and in partnership with our Digital Practice, we deliver the best-possible regional and high-level leadership and experts in these highly competitive and sought after capacities.
The Insurance sector is undergoing substantial transformation, not least driven by a drastically changing travel and financial services landscape following the pandemic and the emergence of big data driving business strategy and operations.
Amrop's global insurance consultants add value to this highly evolving industry sector with modern and adept leadership and functional professionals shaping the future and bringing growth and innovation across life, property and casualty, brokerage and reinsurance businesses.
Our dedicated partners and consultants maintain extensive industry access and gravitas that allow us to deliver excellent talent solutions to the critical issues that insurance companies face today, including to the evolving digital transformation in the Insurtech landscape, operations, distribution, governance, and enriching with diversity, equity and inclusive talent solutions.
Regulatory and Risk related structures have become increasingly complex and a considerable challenge for the financial services industry and its regulators.
Market participants and regulators are faced with permanent demand for highly qualified risk and compliance professionals, enabling seamless supervision and risk management.
Our Risk Management and Regulatory practice support the financial institutions, regulators and other financial services firms finding suitable key functional expertise willing and able to build and maintain efficient and effective Risk and compliance management organizations.
