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As a global leader in strategic consulting, McKinsey's Financial Services helps its clients achieve substantial, positive, and sustainable impact in our clients' performance. The practice serves a broad spectrum of clients in traditional and non-traditional financial industries, including commercial banks, investment banks, brokerage and securities firms, property and casualty insurers, life insurers, asset managers, consumer finance companies, credit card companies, and other diversified financial institutions. We work with our clients on the critical challenges they face today: strategic innovation, growth and industry consolidation, risk and regulation management, operational efficiency, and talent management.
Our practice has the most extensive industry and functional knowledge base of any of our competitors. With over 800 financial services experts working in nearly 50 countries, our scale and scope give us an unprecedented advantage to bring targeted geographic, functional, and industry knowledge to each consulting relationship.
 |  | | Understanding the bad bank | | McKinsey Quarterly, December 2009
For many, this is the best exit from the financial crisis—but the choices entailed are not straightforward.
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| | | Commercial real-estate lending: Finding economic profit in a difficult industry | | McKinsey Quarterly, November 2009
While the industry ails, some commercial real-estate lenders thrive.
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| | | At a crossroads: Corporate banking in Eastern Europe | | McKinsey Quarterly, August 2009
With strategic options dwindling, banks that improve their core methods and practices stand the best chance of weathering the storm. | | Read more on McKinsey Quarterly site |
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| | | How Latin American banks are performing in the crisis | | McKinsey Quarterly, July 2009
Although the economic slowdown has indirectly affected the region’s banks, they will probably remain profitable and well capitalized.
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| | | Learning from financial regulation’s mistakes | | McKinsey Quarterly, June 2009
Current bank oversight failed to prevent the financial crisis. Let’s not prescribe more of the same. | | Read more on McKinsey Quarterly site |
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| | | Responding to the variable annuity crisis | | | After years of strong growth, variable annuity writers face a dramatic slowdown. But there are opportunities for carriers that take decisive action. | Launch this article (PDF - 703 KB) |
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| | | Improving property and casualty insurance regulation in the United States | | | McKinsey takes a look at the options for replacing or augmenting state-based regulation with a national system. | | Launch this article (PDF - 1.2 MB) |
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| | | Global perspective on payments: The McKinsey Global Payments Map | | | The Global Payments Map is a comparative framework for understanding consumer and corporate payments preferences around the world. | | Launch this article (PDF - 139 KB) |
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