First Manhattan Consulting Group is a management-consulting firm that serves financial institutions on top-management issues with advisory services. The company offers strategy, risk management and technology consulting services through a mix of strategy, finance, technology and productivity skills. These skills allow the company to discover new insights on the drivers of shareholder value, design new approaches to calculate capital adequacy and capital allocation and introduce marketing approaches that are designed to alter customer acquisition and service delivery paradigms in financial services. Company clients include around 80 percent of the 70 largest United States bank holding companies, stock and mutual insurance carriers, international banks, finance companies, guarantee companies, diversified financial firms, telecommunications providers, brokerage firms and interactive media/Internet firms. Established in 1980, First Manhattan Consulting Group has completed more than 2,500 assignments in the financial services industry. Located in New York, the company also has a West Coast office in Seattle.