Taking a strategic approach to software architecture is a priority for 2022 and financial firms are re-evaluating and modernising their underlying architecture. Digital transformation projects lean hard on IT teams...
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In 2022, climate-related considerations are a mainstream focus in capital markets as part of global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting initiatives. The most widely adopted framework is a voluntary...
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Traditionally, account opening processes in a financial institution required face-to-face contact between the financial institution’s onboarding team and the prospective client. However, as demand from investors for non-face-to-face (NFTF) onboarding...
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In recent years, there has been a global shift away from the established pattern of business communications. The Covid pandemic, and the continuing uncertainty it has created, has accelerated a...
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Software investment projects in financial markets organisations almost always include a ‘buy vs build’ decision: whether to buy – to purchase an off-the-shelf solution from a third-party vendor, or to...
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After years of investment in front office technology to streamline workflows in the face of squeezed trading margins and higher trading costs, investment banks and brokers now are focusing on...
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In 2021, demand for third-party data in financial institutions is growing, fuelled by the wide availability of innovative technology that can analyse many different data types and by the huge...
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In June 2020, the Bank of England (BoE) created a Post-Trade Technology Market Practitioner panel to look at the future of post-trade systems and processes. The subsequent report posited that...
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Over the last decade, cash equities trading has experienced a high degree of technological and business consolidation, driven by the downward pressure on margins in cash equities brokerage.
Despite astronomical sums being spent by banks on surveillance – almost US$ 740m by 15 surveyed Tier I and Tier II banks alone in the first two years after MAR came into effect in the UK1 – electronic surveillance is still in its infancy, and gaps in efficacy and performance mean that there is appetite for further spending, development and automation.