Anchored in the banking sector since the firm’s founding, we build a stronger Financial Services Practice each day.
Our success is based on all of the firm’s services inluding:
- Executive Search: we support our clients in finding their executives, experts and effective leaders.
- Board Services: we work with major financial players in the constitution and evaluation of their board of directors, and ensure the adoption of the best practices required by regulators.
- Leadership Consulting: this activity has become one of the key factors of success in the financial sector. We support our clients over the long term in building a succession plan, onboarding an executive, or in accompanying a management team that needs to steer their companies in their strategic goals.
- Executive Assessment & Coaching: we help our financial clients put their leaders in the best conditions to succeed. We conduct assessment assignments for executives.
We make every effort to provide the highest level of quality and results to our clients in the following sectors:
Banking
Executive search for effective leaders, management committee members for retail banks, specialized financial institutions, mutual funds and marketplace organizations.
Wealth Management
Executive search for private bank and wealth management experts, financial investment advisors, and family offices.
Capital Markets
Executive search for top management and rare profiles, consulting assignments (including around governance) for financial activities and investments for financial groups, brokerage firms (financial analysis), and market operators.
Asset Management
Executive search for experts and leaders in the asset management field.
Mergers & Acquisitions
In support of merger and acquisitions advisory firms, and M&A functions of financial managers.
Private Equity
Investment funds, executive search for investment experts for funds, recruitment for their financial holdings.
Fintech, IT and Payment Services
A long-standing expertise developed with the Technology Practice. Executive search for CTO/CIO/Program Manager of major managerial divisions (survey, production), cybersecurity expertise. Advisory and recruitment for fintech and payment services clients support in their development (recruitment and consulting).
Risk and Compliance
A long-standing expertise shared with the Insurance Practice on operational risks, market risks, head of internal control & compliance positions, etc.
Governance and Regulations
Due to the specificity of banking regulations, we keep abreast of their evolutions and take them into account in our advisory for improvement of governance (recruitment of board members, assessment and composition of the boards).
Thanks to our positioning, and also to our active participation in IIC Partners international exchanges, we have the chance to cover a large scope of activities in banking professions, financial markets, and asset management.
We have developed a particular know-how in considering technological challenges. We accompany fintechs and large financial organizations in the recruitment of the rarest and most sought-after profiles in the IT and digital professions.
Executive Search
Present in almost all sectors of economic activity, Progress Associés develops its sectoral expertise through practices led by Partners.