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Financial Services

Oliver Wyman Financial Services helps the world's leading financial institutions address their most significant challenges to shape the future of the industry.  We have an unparalleled understanding of the evolving market structures, economics, and strategic and regulatory trends across all segments of the financial services sector. Our distinct approach is characterized by deep specialization and rigorous fact-based analysis.

We work across eight core practice areas:


Descriptions of these practices and links are below.


Corporate & Institutional Banking

Oliver Wyman's Corporate & Institutional Banking practice, widely recognized for its influential thought-leadership, draws on a deep knowledge of our clients’ businesses and our own in-depth industry research to develop sustainable strategies for Investment Banking, Corporate & Commercial Banking and Asset Management firms.


Retail & Business Banking

Oliver Wyman's Retail & Business Banking practice serves leading financial institutions around the world focused on consumer and small business segments. The practice combines deep expertise in the microeconomics and competitive market structures of credit, savings, investments and payments businesses with a frontier understanding of products, channel management and customer behavior. 


Wealth & Asset Management

Oliver Wyman’s Wealth & Asset Management practice provides our clients with a deep understanding of – and broad expertise in – their diverse markets and products. Wealth & Asset Management’s core areas of activity include corporate strategy, development of product strategies in both traditional and alternative investments, internal organizational reviews and the set-up of successful distribution organizations.


Insurance

Oliver Wyman's Insurance practice brings years of industry expertise, strategic thinking, analytical insight and innovation to create tangible value for leading P&C, life and health insurers and reinsurers.


Public Policy

Oliver Wyman’s Public Policy practice leverages the full range of the firm's industry knowledge and functional expertise in the interest of public policy solutions that have real impact. Core areas of activity include the development of financial sector strategy, the reform of regulatory and supervisory approaches, the establishment or improvement of market infrastructure and the development of policies or mechanisms to protect the interests of consumers and investors.


Cross-Vertical Capabilities

Corporate Finance and Advisory

Oliver Wyman’s Corporate Finance and Advisory practice serves principal investment companies to identify and evaluate opportunities to deliver superior returns on their funds. Our clients include leading global buyout funds, venture capital funds, activist investors, hedge funds as well as the principal investment business of banks, insurers and asset managers.


Strategic Information Technology and Operations

Oliver Wyman's Strategic IT and Operations practice addresses challenges that confront senior business executives, COOs and CIOs. Through our unique combination of deep understanding of the microeconomics of financial services companies and intimate knowledge of IT and Operations, we help clients translate business strategy into action, optimize the operational support for their business and improve performance.


Finance & Risk

Oliver Wyman provides leading financial institutions with custom solutions covering all aspects of risk management, including its application to financial management. Decades of work with the world’s top 100 financial institutions have given us a unique global perspective on the challenges they face.