Advise. Search. Grow.

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Alexander Barnes is a premier search and staffing firm for the financial services sector, with a specialist focus on financial and regulatory governance, risk, and compliance.

Our clients are banking institutions, scale-up ventures and professional service providers on a mission to build the next generation of financial services and technology solutions.

We take a relationship-driven approach to recruitment, cultivating meaningful connections to offer clients and candidates access to exclusive appointments and opportunities across our markets.

Our globally-connected network and deep understanding of the financial services landscape enable us to provide impactful insights and guidance to our clients, helping them design, strategise, and execute successful recruitment campaigns.

Our Approach

Advise

Expert counsel and market insights shape the hiring and search strategies for ambitious clients making mission-critical hires in complex regulatory sectors.

Search

Detailed research, exploration and networking identify the resources and connections needed for successful appointments.

Grow

Teams and products from established brands to challenger start-ups, excel and reach their full potential, making a positive impact in the problem space.

Mission

Alexander Barnes is on a mission to become the go-to staffing advisor, embedded in the fintech space.

What does that mean for us? It means being THE value-add partner for both companies and talent seeking to navigate the competitive and dynamic fintech landscape.

It means being a strategic and trusted advisor who brings deep expertise, a network-driven approach, and a data-informed perspective to the market.

We’ll measure our success by:

The size and distribution of our high-quality candidate network

Adding to our contact base of tens of thousands of top-achieving fintech professionals, searchable by specialism, technical skill, salary, language, geography, education and more.

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Our engagement with our networks

Maintaining a high-frequency cadence and speaking with hundreds of FinTech leaders every month, gaining insight into emerging market trends, technology innovation and a shifting competitive landscape.

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Access to world-class advisory

Active communication channels with thought leaders and specialist communities, uncovering unique market intelligence to fuel the design and execution of clients’ routes to market and recruitment campaigns.

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