Local Focus

The Benelux is home to many large financial institutions, including top-level banks, insurers and market infrastructures. A.T. Kearney provides clients with strategic and operations-related consulting that actively deals with the challenges and developments currently affecting these businesses.

The challenges are many: internationalization and cross-border mergers and integrations; volatile economic and financial conditions; risk from terrorism, corporate scandals, and catastrophes; new regulatory frameworks (Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley, IAS norms, Corporate Governance); the need to renew top line growth in a mature market with increased customer expectations; and new operating models that involve outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring.

Our clients are well aware of these challenges and developments. However, their search for solutions can often prove to be more elusive.

We help our clients deal with these issues by focusing on three critical areas. We help them reshuffle their activity portfolio and increase top-line organic growth to increase revenues; we help them deploy a long-term cost reduction strategies and maintain operational excellence for lower costs and increased flexibility; and we help them deal with risk by ensuring compliance with new regulations and improving risk management to reduce capital requirements.

A.T. Kearney’s Benelux Financial Institutions Group also works closely with the European Financial Institutions Group to ensure delivery of the best possible consultancy.