Sector-native depth across financial services.

Practices built around how financial services firms are structured — by asset class, strategy and product.

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GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES EXECUTIVE SEARCH

The Omerta Group is a specialist executive search firm for global financial services.

Our clients have relied on us since 2002 for the searches that require sector-native depth. As Kingsley Gate’s Global Financial Services Practice, we now deliver that depth on a platform that reaches every market your leaders operate in, and runs every search on proprietary AI built for the way executive search actually works.

OUR EXPERTISE

Sector-native depth across the practices where financial services actually hire.

Our practices are organized around the way financial services firms are structured and the way senior leaders move within them — by asset class, strategy, and product, rather than by generic seniority band.

Each practice is led by consultants who have spent years inside that specific market.

Hedge Funds

Portfolio managers, analysts, strategists, and traders across L/S equity, event-driven, macro, fixed income relative value, FX volatility, systematic, credit, commodities, and emerging markets. Coverage extends to senior COO, CRO, and business management mandates across single-manager and multi-strategy platforms.

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Hedge Funds

Systematic Markets

Quantitative researchers, quantitative traders, portfolio managers, strategists, and developers across high-frequency and mid-frequency strategies. Coverage spans traditional markets, including equities, futures, options, and bonds, and extends into centralized cryptocurrency cash and derivatives trading and decentralized finance.

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Systematic Markets

Global Markets

Sales, trading, structuring, capital raising, and research across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, credit, commodities, and digital assets. Coverage across sell-side, buy-side, proprietary trading firms, liquidity venues, and non-bank market makers, at mid-level through the most senior mandates.

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Global Markets

Asset Management & Capital Formation

Senior leadership, portfolio managers, research analysts, sales and distribution, investor relations, quantitative professionals, and risk leaders across traditional asset managers, alternatives, and private markets. Coverage extends across public and private, active, passive, and systematic strategies.

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Asset Management & Capital Formation

Investment Banking & Capital Markets

Managing directors and product heads across M&A advisory, equity capital markets, debt capital markets, leveraged finance, restructuring, financial sponsors coverage, private capital markets, and structured finance. Investing-side coverage includes leadership and senior investment professionals for credit funds, real assets, infrastructure, real estate, and private capital advisory firms.

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Investment Banking & Capital Markets

(Re)insurance

Senior-level talent across Lloyd’s of London, captive insurance, offshore and the broader specialty insurance market. Coverage spans insurance, reinsurance and MGA mandates, from chief executives and business producers to underwriting, actuarial, CAT modelling and parametric, across the UK, US, Bermuda, APAC and the Middle East.

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(Re)insurance

Board & CEO

Chair, non-executive director, CEO, and executive committee searches for investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurance businesses, brokerage, exchanges, and family offices. Board work is delivered in partnership with Kingsley Gate's global Board & CEO practice.

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Board & CEO

Corporate Functions

COO, CFO, CRO, general counsel, audit, and compliance leadership at the senior partner and managing director level, across the UK, US, Continental Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

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Corporate Functions

Technology, Data, Product & AI

CAIO, CTO, CIO, CDO, and head-of-engineering requirements for investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms, including quantitative developers, engineering leadership, and the executives building the AI and data infrastructure now reshaping every financial services function.

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Technology, Data, Product & AI

HOW WE WORK

The search starts in the kick-off conversation.

You leave your first meeting with us holding a role brief, a search strategy, and an initial market map — not a promise that these will be sent to you the following week.

That is possible because IGNYTE, the proprietary AI platform Kingsley Gate built from the ground up, produces the underlying intelligence in real time while your consultant remains focused entirely on understanding your business.

ONE PARTNER, START TO FINISH

The consultant who knows your market is the consultant who runs your search

The partner who takes your brief leads your search from start to finish. With deep financial services expertise, they know the talent landscape, key decision-makers, and which candidates are genuinely in play.

50+ COUNTRIES

Sector-native specialists on a globally integrated platform

Our consultants bring decades of experience across financial services, including hedge funds, systematic strategies, global markets, asset management, and investment banking.

Kingsley Gate’s platform gives that expertise a single methodology and quality standard across 50+ countries. The result is consistent execution, methodology, and quality, wherever the search leads.

VISIBLE IN REAL TIME

You see the search as we run it.

Candidate progress, rationales, market feedback, and next steps are visible to you in real time, on the same platform we work in. Transparency is how our process runs, rather than something we describe in a pitch.

GLOBAL REACH

The specialist depth our clients rely on, now on the platform they need it on.

Our reach is no longer limited by geography. As part of Kingsley Gate, we deliver executive search across more than fifty countries, on a single global platform that also gives you access to every major industry Kingsley Gate serves. Every mandate is led by the same trusted consultant, with the same standard of execution, wherever the search leads.

Consistent execution, delivered at global scale.

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Bring us the mandate. We’ll bring the consultant who already knows your market, the platform that runs the intelligence, and a first meeting that moves your search forward from the moment it starts.