The Talent Equation - How the Global Financial Services Markets Are Being Shaped

One language is beginning to emerge as the focalsame time, asset management and insurance
point of financial services organizations stretchinghave predominantly remained under the control of
from established capital markets in New York,local players. As a result, the most significant
London and Hong Kong to fast-growth andmovement of talent has been in investment and
emerging global business centers such as Dubai,consumer banking.
Shanghai and Mumbai.The Rising Tiger: India Emerging As A Global Force
It is the language that unifies global strategy withIn Financial Services
tactical execution in an increasingly competitiveThe growing influence of the Indian economy is
global market for financial services. And one thatfast becoming a global platform for new growth in
speaks to future performance potential morefinancial services, and three significant drivers are
clearly than any other.now driving this increasingly diverse sector of its
It is the language of talent.markets. They are economic growth,
The View From New York: A Retrenchment Ofdemographics and regulation.
The Financial LandscapeLong a significant net exporter of management
Recent workforce downsizing by some of Walltalent, the burgeoning financial market in India is
Street's largest employers have elevatedattracting global pools of talent to help address
concerns that the tumult in the U.S. economythe booming corporate and consumer demand.
could lead to a 20 percent cut in the financialIndia is already luring many expatriates back to
services labor pool. But since the financial impact istheir homeland and this long-standing tradition of
spread across investment banking, assetexporting talent may reach a more level playing
management and capital markets, each with itsfield in the years to come.
own competitive pressures, the long-termInterpreting Financial Services Maturation Across
consequences of this market realignment are stillChina, Asia And Beyond
unclear.The financial services market is maturing and
Europe Braces For U.S. Fallout, But Gains Clout Assegmenting much more quickly in the emerging
Bridge To Eastern Marketsmarkets of Asia than it did in the West. The level
Uncertainty about the magnitude and reach ofof sophistication in financial services and other
tremors that will invariably extend from themarkets that evolved over 200 years in the
financial services sector in the United States toWest is developing in a much shorter time frame
the United Kingdom and continental Europe havein Asia.
already unsettled the significant investmentThe executive search war for talent is being
banking market in London.brought forth in Asia, but the fiercest heat of
Over the past three years, the financial sectorbattle is in the two sectors that are growing the
has been booming. Most of the key global playersfastest and globalizing the fastest and becoming
either entered the market or re-launched theiras sophisticated as their Western counterparts -
businesses in Russia, especially those inand those are financial services and information
investment banking and consumer banking. At thetechnology.