Going For Growth*

Financial services executives in Asia face growing pressure to satisfy shareholders, please customers and capitalise on their successes. With falling barriers, the threat of new competition continues to escalate, and executives have no choice but to maintain a constant surveillance of new market trends and growth opportunities, all the while trying to maintain a consistent corporate culture across disparate ethnic cultures and integrating any acquisitions already made.

This study sought the views of 130 senior executives in 19 countries in Asia’s financial services industry. More than two-thirds of survey respondents predict that their organisations will undergo significant M&A activity in the coming five years and an equal number agreed that joint ventures and partnerships would be the key to their expansion plans in Asia.

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