Our Services
As an established and highly experienced specialist search firm, we enable our clients to manage risk, meet their regulatory obligations, and grow responsibly. We do this by introducing them to the world’s best senior and emerging leaders across the compliance, financial crime, risk management, internal audit and finance disciplines, and at board-level.
We also aid people-oriented decision-making by managers, and direct hiring of exceptional candidates by internal talent teams. Our talent mapping and market intelligence services focus on providing uniquely well-informed and targeted research into our specialist disciplines, spanning people, companies, sectors and trends.
Executive
Search
Since 1988 we have provided world-class executive search services to a range of clients, focusing on compliance, financial crime, risk, internal audit and finance at senior and mid-senior levels.
Board-Level
Search
Thanks to our network and reputation, we are uniquely well-positioned to assist in engaging and hiring the best and most suitable independent directors into financial services firms of all kinds.
Talent Mapping & Market Intelligence
Our expertise within governance, regulatory and controls functions enables us to provide detailed profiles and meaningful insights around specific roles, functions and topics of interest.
Executive Search
Since 1988 we have provided world-class executive search services to a range of clients, focusing on compliance, financial crime, risk, internal audit and finance at senior and mid-senior levels.
Board-Level Search
Thanks to our network and reputation, we are uniquely well-positioned to assist in engaging and hiring the best and most suitable independent directors into financial services firms of all kinds.
Talent Mapping & Market Intelligence
Our expertise within governance, regulatory and controls functions enables us to provide detailed profiles and meaningful insights around specific roles, functions and topics of interest.

About Halsey Keetch
Founded in 1988 and rebranded in 2015, we are experts in the governance, regulatory and controls functions across the financial services industry.
Our network and knowledge across compliance, risk, internal audit and finance is unrivalled, as these areas have been our focus since our founding. We provide world-class executive search, talent mapping and advisory, and board-level search services to many of the industry’s leading firms across banking, asset management and insurance. We offer a uniquely well-informed and insightful service and a commitment to excellent results.
Thanks to our consistent, exclusive focus on the governance, regulatory and controls functions across financial services, we are amongst the industry’s most well-connected and best-known search boutiques covering these disciplines. Owner-managed since establishment, our directors personally lead all assignments alongside our exceptional and highly experienced team.
Our Track Record
We have an outstanding track record in governance, regulatory and controls search across the financial services industry, and have placed a vast number of people into compliance, risk, audit and finance leadership roles over the course of more than thirty years in business. Our success is based on our knowledge of these functions, an appreciation of our clients’ specific needs and goals from one assignment to the next, and our uncompromising respect for all individuals involved in every search that we handle. Additionally, our growing Board Practice has been built on the longevity and depth of our relationships, our credibility as a governance specialist, and our access to this highly accomplished network of people.
Our Influence
Over the last decade, the profile of the financial services industry’s governance, regulatory and controls functions has risen to unprecedented levels, prompted by the lessons learnt through the Global Financial Crisis, and by other serious conduct and prudential issues that have been brought to light. Regulators remain focused on improving the stability of the industry, whilst allowing for growth to return to the financial sector, and for innovation to thrive. Meanwhile, the global economy has recovered to a certain extent, although political conditions around the world have increased in unpredictability, and policy-making has at times seemed unsupportive of further growth.
The above conditions prompt an enormous amount of dialogue, and we enjoy providing the opportunity for contacts to discuss the issues of the day in a variety of formats. To quote the Scottish philosopher, Sir David Hume, “truth is reached through disagreement between friends.” At Halsey Keetch, we believe this equates to engaging conversations between industry peers, and our company runs a lively schedule of networking events in the City of London. This includes our ‘Halsey Keetch Hosts’ breakfast events and the quarterly Halsey Keetch Book Club.
Our popular annual publication, ‘In Conversation’, also contains a selection of insightful Q&As with commentators on a variety of issues. Published every spring, previous topics have ranged from individual accountability to trends in cyber security, via the challenges and fun of running a specialist boutique search firm. Join our mailing list today to receive your copy of the latest and previous editions.
Halsey Keetch Hosts
Our popular breakfast events have been running regularly for a number of years and have gained a strong following. Co-hosted by industry experts and focused on issues of topical interest, including preparing for SMCR, measuring culture, and leadership of modern controls functions. These roundtables enable open discussion and networking amongst our valued contacts.
The Halsey Keetch Book Club
We launched our Book Club in Autumn 2018 to great success, meeting quarterly over breakfast in the City of London. Thus far, we have enjoyed titles as diverse as ‘Wilful Blindness’, ‘Utopia for Realists’ and ‘Lying for Money’, and look forward to many more, including ‘The Salt Path’, ‘Shoot For The Moon’, and ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’.
In
Conversation
Good governance, effective controls, and insightful risk management in financial services are subjects of ongoing and energetic discussion, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world. Our annual publication, In Conversation, collects a curated selection of the conversations we have had with our contacts, shining a light on today’s pressing governance leadership issues.
Halsey Keetch Hosts
Our popular breakfast events have been running regularly for a number of years and have gained a strong following. Co-hosted by industry experts and focused on issues of topical interest, including preparing for SMCR, measuring culture, and leadership of modern controls functions. These roundtables enable open discussion and networking amongst our valued contacts.
The Halsey Keetch Book Club
We launched our Book Club in Autumn 2018 to great success, meeting quarterly over breakfast in the City of London. Thus far, we have enjoyed titles as diverse as ‘Wilful Blindness’, ‘Utopia for Realists’ and ‘Lying for Money’, and look forward to many more, including ‘The Salt Path’, ‘Shoot For The Moon’, and ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’.
In Conversation
Good governance, effective controls, and insightful risk management in financial services are subjects of ongoing and energetic discussion, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world. Our annual publication, In Conversation, collects a curated selection of the conversations we have had with our contacts, shining a light on today’s pressing governance leadership issues.