Financial Services
We partner with global financial institutions to create transformative work environments that meet new expectations of employees and consumers. We design workplaces that attract top talent, promote productivity, and offer a competitive advantage.
Alliance Bernstein, NY
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As data scientists and programmers shape the financial services culture, workplaces must evolve, swapping some client-hosting space for focus rooms, team labs, intuitive secure tech, and areas that support deep work.
—Tina Hakkaki, Financial Services leader
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T. Rowe Price | Harbor Point Headquarters
Baltimore, Maryland
T. Rowe Price’s new Harbor Point headquarters reimagines the modern workplace — fusing hospitality, sustainability, and flexibility to support evolving workstyles, deepen community ties, and enhance the associate and client experience.
Investment Firm at Rockefeller Center
New York, New York
This private equity outfit found a new home through an imaginative relocation strategy that led them to a purposeful, greenery-filled headquarters that integrates wellness, projects warmth, and inspires awe.
Glenmede Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A dynamic, three-story Philadelphia office inspired by the movement of the Schuylkill River adopts connection, flexibility, and modern employee experiences while honoring Glenmede’s heritage and commitment to excellence.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Toronto, Ontario
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) moved into its new ten-floor workplace in the heart of Toronto’s Financial District. The new workplace prioritizes wellness, sustainability, and flexibility for its employees.
Financial Technology Firm
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
This global financial technology firm enlisted Gensler to translate high‑performance fintech culture into a Caribbean setting, designing a future‑ready workplace at 60 Nexus Way on Grand Cayman that feels unmistakably local.
Confidential Financial Services Client
London, United Kingdom
This new workplace is designed to inspire pride, connection, and performance. Set within a reimagined building across from St Paul’s Cathedral, the space brings together the firm’s global ambition and local identity.
Confidential Financial Service Firm
Boston, Massachusetts
This independent investment management firm partnered with Gensler to design a new office that reflects its culture and supports a flexible, dynamic way of working.
Confidential Global Professional Services Client
Los Angeles, California
A transformed office space blends collaboration and curated experiences to create a dynamic workplace that attracts talent and fosters connection.
Confidential Financial Client
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gensler designed a new workplace for this financial services client, who relocated from the suburbs to The Dayton’s Project in vibrant downtown Minneapolis.
Gen II Fund Services
Denver, Colorado
Gen II’s new workplace features spectacular unobstructed views of Denver and the Colorado landscape and natural textures, warm tones and handcrafted details.
BAC Credomatic Headquarters Honduras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
BAC Credomatic, a people-centric financial services firm, shifted their Honduras headquarters into exciting, dynamic, and energy-filled spaces.
Financial Services Client
New York, New York
Situated in a busy Midtown Manhattan public plaza, this small sculptural pavilion’s primary mission is to provide daylight to the conference center concourse.
1 Soho Place
London, United Kingdom
The key purpose of this confidential firm’s new workplace is to better connect its teams and help seamlessly make the move to the eclectic Soho neighbourhood.
Allspring Global Investments Headquarters
Charlotte, North Carolina
The new East Coast headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina serves as a reflection of Allspring’s mission and communicates who they are in a workspace that honors the industry and elevates the firm.
Confidential Financial Services Firm
New York, New York
This confidential financial services firm partnered with Gensler to redefine their headquarters presence in the Americas, creating a premier employee and client experience.
Confidential Financial Services Firm London Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
The new design of this financial workplace consolidates five floors of assigned seating into an amenity-rich floor of unassigned seating, to attract talent.
Confidential Global Financial Services Client
Hong Kong, China
The new design for this global financial services client’s Hong Kong workplace provides opportunities for each floor’s business units to uniquely curate or personalize their communal spaces.
CIBC Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
Gensler devised an “ecosystem” approach for CIBC’s new workplace design to encourage interaction and cross-pollination among departments.
Confidential Global Financial Client
Paris, France
Working collaboratively with this global financial client, we created a concept for its Paris workplace that aims to balance design with a sense of traditional and modernism.
Confidential Financial Services Client
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
The new workplace for this financial services client is designed to promote collaboration across business units and offer employees access to views of Mumbai.
Jefferson Bank New Corporate Headquarters
San Antonio, Texas
A well-established voice in the San Antonio banking community, Jefferson Bank united the majority of its employees under one roof at its new headquarters.
Baring Private Equity Asia
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
BPEA worked with Gensler to refurbish its existing office with the addition of new floor space to meet its global office design standards.
Securian Financial Reimagine Prototype
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The workplace prototype design for Securian Financial features modular concepts and new workstation prototypes along with team and amenity zones.
Confidential Financial Client
Paris, France
The program for this financial services client’s Paris-based workspace includes a boardroom, a conference room, and a flexible meeting room capable of welcoming 36 people for a lecture-style presentation.
Standard Chartered Bank
Hong Kong, China
To implement a hybrid workplace with greater flexibility and options, Standard Chartered Bank engaged Gensler to redesign two community floors in Hong Kong.
AllianceBernstein Nashville Headquarters
Nashville, Tennessee
Spanning eight floors at Fifth + Broadway, a commercial office building also designed by Gensler, AllianceBernstein’s Nashville headquarters features a design that sets people and business into motion.
Confidential Global Insurance Company
Sydney, Australia
Embracing the opportunities for hybrid work to increase talent growth and retention, this leading global insurance company’s new fit-out at its Sydney office provides workers with a variety of settings to better support diverse work modes.
INSIGHTS
Blog
The Future of Real Estate Metrics: Human Connection
The places that thrive in the years ahead will be designed to build relationships, inspire belonging, and foster togetherness.
Blog
Human and ‘Digital Employee’ Collaboration Will Transform Workplace Design
AI integration will soon impact physical spaces, potentially reshaping individual and group culture within organizations.
Blog
Why Japan’s Workplace Trends Are Moving Against the Global Current
How companies in Japan can adapt their workplace solutions to counteract the country’s stagnating office experience.
Blog
Designing Workplaces That Work — With Your People
When employees are involved in the planning and design process, the workspaces we create are more effective, engaging, and human.
Blog
Doing More With Less: Designing Small Spaces for Big Impact
Right-sized workplaces are redefining what it means to be effective — and proving that good design is measured not in square footage, but in experience.
Blog
3 Overlooked Human Factors That Make-or-Break Mergers and Acquisitions
Organizations that integrate people, culture, and physical space into their M&A strategy can unlock lasting value.
Blog
Debunking 3 Myths About Generational Differences in the Workplace
As generational differences narrow, organizations should focus their workplace strategies across the entire talent spectrum.
Blog
How the Future of Work Is Influencing Workplace Design
While workplace design changes incrementally, the past few years radically transformed our expectations of an office and how we can design for what’s possible.
Blog
The New Club Workplace: More Than an Amenity
The next generation of tenants wants an experience-driven, unconventional shared amenity space, prompting landlords to rethink their offerings.
Blog
The New Workplace Experiences That People Crave
Employees want to move past the corporate workplace experience to more creative, natural, and residential environments.
Blog
It’s Time for the Traditional Conference Room to Make Way for New Spaces
It’s time to forgo the traditional conference room and make space for more intentional, adaptable environments that are aligned with how people connect today.
Blog
How Summer FOMO Is Shaping the Canadian Workplace
Our latest research offers some insights into why a desire for flexibility, variety, and seasonal adaptability is influencing the workplace in Canada.
Blog
Agency Is the New Workplace Amenity
By designing enough of the right spaces within the workplace, employers can create environments where employees have agency to choose the best space for their needs.
Blog
The Convergence of Tech and the Financial Workplace
The financial workplace is taking cues from the tech industry, shifting from one-size-fits-most to always-in-beta mode.
Blog
Why Now Is the Time for a Workplace Reset
To keep pace with changing workforce expectations, we need to think differently about the workplace.
Trends in Financial Services
Expectations from a new generation of talent reshape the workplace.
Financial services firms move beyond one-size-fits-all offices to create environments that attract and retain a diverse, tech-savvy workforce. Spaces are designed to support neurodiversity, working parents, and employees seeking well-being and belonging. Service-oriented amenities ensure the workplace feels more human, comfortable, and tailored.
Institutions rethink real estate as an experience ecosystem.
Rather than simply cutting space, firms evaluate their portfolios through master planning to align hubs and satellite locations and provide bespoke environments for collaboration, focus, and client engagement. The goal is to create a more agile, resilient portfolio that can flex with shifting business priorities, while delivering greater value to employees and clients.
Security concerns slow adoption of AI in the workplace.
AI reshapes financial services — from advisory models to risk management — but its integration into daily work is uneven. Security and compliance requirements slow the adoption of new tools, leaving employees with outdated systems that reduce productivity. As regulation catches up and firms shift toward more technical roles, the workplace will need to support both secure technology integration and new patterns of collaboration in an AI-enabled industry.
FINANCIAL SERVICES LEADERSHIP
Marisol DeRosa
Financial Services Leader, Strategy Director, Principal
Marisol DeRosa is a Principal, Financial Services Leader and Strategy Director at Gensler New York with an expertise in the financial services and technology industries.
Tina Hakkaki
Financial Services Leader
As a Workplace Strategy Consultant and a Global Financial Services Leader at Gensler, Tina Hakkaki’s main focus lies in the development, implementation, and management of workplace transformation programmes and the creation of user-centric workplace solutions.
NEWS
In The Media
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JPMorganChase
JPMorganChase Opens Its Global Headquarters, Redefining the Future of Workplace Design
Gensler contributed to the design of JPMorganChase’s “social, functional, and restorative workspaces” that Regional Managing Principal Rocco Giannetti says will serve employees and clients for decades to come.
October 21, 2025
In The Media
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Dezeen
JPMorganChase’s Supertall Skyscraper Opens, Featuring “Neighborhoods” of Gensler-Designed Workspaces and Amenities
Gensler’s Stefanie Shunk says JPMorganChase’s new global headquarters in Manhattan reflect “how people and organizations work today and in the future.”
October 21, 2025
In The Media
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Designboom
JPMorganChase’s Headquarters Opens, Featuring Over 1.7 Million Square Feet of Gensler-Designed Interiors Across 20 Workplace Floors and Amenity Levels
Gensler Design Director Stefanie Shunk says JPMorgan Chase’s supertall tower “signals the future of workplace design, and it all starts with the individual and creating a sense of belonging.”
October 21, 2025
In The Media
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NJBIZ
NJBIZ Honors Gensler’s Michael Hughes With Forty Under 40 Award
Gensler Financial Services Leader Michael Hughes honored with NJBIZ 2025 Forty Under 40 Award, which recognizes professionals’ notable success in the industry and strong leadership.
September 16, 2025
In The Media
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Inversión Inmobiliaria
Gensler Partnered With BAC To Transform the Financial Services Firm’s Office Into an Award-Winning Workplace
Inversión Inmobiliaria spotlighted how Gensler partnered with BAC Credomatic to spark a workplace strategy across Central America and transform its Honduras office into a workplace destination (en Español).
June 06, 2025
In The Media
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Newsweek
AllianceBernstein’s New Hudson Yards Office Reflects a Forward-Thinking Approach to Workplace Design
Gensler’s Eran Sharon explained that the Gensler-designed space features the “Dreamwall,” an AI-powered, immersive art installation that evolves daily, reflecting the dynamic spirit of New York and AB’s commitment to innovation.
May 23, 2025
In The Media
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The Atlantic
‘Workplace Power Symbols’ That Are Replacing the Corner Office As Emblems of Corporate Success
Janet Pogue McLaurin, Gensler’s Global Director of Workplace Research, discussed the rise of coffee areas, conference rooms, and other collaborative spaces in newly designed offices.
May 15, 2024
In The Media
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Bloomberg
Three Office Design Predictions for 2024, According to Gensler’s Design Forecast
Gensler Principal Natalie Engels explained why companies are focusing more on the well-being of the teams and individuals and detailed Gensler’s recent project work across industries.
December 19, 2023
In The Media
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NPR
How Financial Firms Incorporated Lessons From the Pandemic Into Their New Office Designs
NPR featured how BNP Paribas and JPMorgan are envisioning the workplace of the future. BNP Paribas worked with Gensler on an extensive redesign of its regional headquarters.
June 11, 2023
In The Media
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CNBC
Why Gensler’s Rocco Giannetti Prefers Being in the Office Four Days a Week
“It’s where I get my best work done,” says Gensler Co-Managing Director Rocco Giannetti in an article on the perks of the office, from accessing technology to connecting with people on a “leadership lap.”
April 12, 2023
In The Media
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Interior Design
Gensler Designs an Airy and Energetic Office Centered Around an Atrium in Honduras
Financial services firm BAC Credomatic’s new workplace is recognized as a 2022 Best of Year Winner by Interior Design Magazine.
January 25, 2023
In The Media
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Office Snapshots
The Gensler-Designed NDBT Offices Honors the Brand Identity and Needs of Its Workers
NDBT’s newly renovated offices features a collaborative space, upgraded amenities, and a modern ‘retail-like’ environment.
December 20, 2022
In The Media
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AIA Middle East
Two Gensler Middle East Projects Win 2022 AIA Middle East Design Awards
AIA Middle East Design Awards honored Gensler Middle East for its design of the 1364ah Lifestyle Center project in Riyadh, as well as a Confidential Financial Services HQ in Dubai.
December 13, 2022