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Archana Seshadrinathan

PartnerSingapura

Helps financial institutions realize value from their transformation programs. Brings extensive experience in corporate and investment banking and end-to-end strategy development for banks, payment institutions, and investment firms across Asia.

Archana serves a diverse range of clients in financial and insurance sectors across the Asia-Pacific (APAC), leveraging over 15 years of experience to drive strategic business transformations.

She specializes in holistic transformation programs for corporate and investment banks and other financial institutions. Additionally, her expertise covers drivers of value creation in financial services, including the business models needed to outperform.

Examples of Archana’s client work include:

  • developing a holistic strategy and implementing a transformation program to double operating profit and substantially improve returns for a regional wholesale bank
  • architecting the originate-to-distribute strategy and operating model for a global corporate bank
  • conducting an in-depth exploration of potential medium- to long-term disruptions across businesses for a regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) banks
  • developing a business plan to establish a healthcare payments business for a leading global financial institution across 11 markets in APAC
  • formulating a growth strategy focused on near-term opportunities for a diversified financial services conglomerate in Indonesia
  • supporting the development of a breakthrough growth strategy for a market leader in Vietnam, encompassing existing businesses and adjacent opportunities
  • designing a growth strategy for a digital asset platform in Singapore focused on the democratization of wealth

Archana is also a thought leader in value creation within financial services. Notably, she is a key contributor to McKinsey’s flagship financial services publication, the Global Banking Annual Review.

Outside of work, Archana dedicates her time to her family and her creative passion, music.

PUBLISHED WORK

McKinsey’s Global Banking Annual Review archive: 2014 to 2022,” McKinsey & Company, December 2022

Capital markets’ message to financial institutions: Differentiate or perish,” McKinsey & Company, September 2021

How healthy is the Asian financial system?,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020

Signs of stress: Is Asia heading toward a debt crisis?,” McKinsey & Company, August 2019

PAST EXPERIENCE

Barclays Capital
Associate Director

EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
MBA, finance & strategy

University of Madras, India
BA, economics