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Financial Services

Serving financial institutions is a key part of our professional practice in Moscow. We have worked with many Russian and CIS financial institutions since their founding, supporting their formation and growth. Across the CIS, we have implemented more than 160 projects for major banks, insurance companies, and other financial organizations.

Examples of our work:

  • Strategy development. We helped establish a regional strategy for an international banking group, setting up a bank focused on consumer loans and developing new products and sales channels.
  • Organizational improvement. We designed a financial-holding-company management model for a bank, including allocating bank branches among business units and implementing a performance-management system.
  • Sales system improvement. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of network performance, launched programs for marketing-policy modernization and sales promotion, and supported a direct-sales system implementation.
  • IT performance improvement. Our specialists helped restructure the management reporting and planning system, performed an IT architecture analysis, and implemented an efficient system for control and implementation of new IT projects.
  • Risk management. We developed processes and tools to assess borrower risk, improved overdue-debt-collection procedures, and proposed organizational solutions to improve overall risk-management capabilities.
  • Operational enhancement. We have helped improve the operational performance of banks’ and insurance companies’ branches and supported the centralization of back-office and support functions at several companies to improve cost effectiveness and standardization.

For more about McKinsey’s experience in financial services, visit our global practice homepage.

Meet our people

Irene Shvakman

Director

Directs project implementation efforts for companies in the financial, consumer, and electric power sectors. Participated in the establishment of the fist consumer lending bank in Russia, developed strategies for financial institutions and restructuring programs for insurance companies. Has implemented projects for retailers and CPG manufacturers.

Ruslan Alikhanov

Principal

Leads the implementation of projects for international financial, energy, and commodity companies. Also serves government organizations and high-tech firms

Semyon Yakovlev

Semyon Yakovlev

Principal

Works with the largest banks in Russia and the Ukraine on operations transformation and strategy projects, oil and gas companies (implementation of operational transformation programs, strategy design and organization, increasing investment efficiency).

Pal Erik Sjatil

Pål Erik Sjåtil

Director

Leads McKinsey’s presence in Eastern Europe and the CIS and provides strategy development support in the region for local market leaders and multinational companies

Olga Sterkhova

Olga Nissen

Principal

A leader of McKinsey’s Business Technology Practice in Moscow, Olga serves clients primarily in the telecom and financial-services sectors supporting operations-performance improvement and the strategic application of IT.

Oleg Timchenko

Principal

Leads projects for telecommunications and banking clients

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