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Private Markets: Private Credit is Private Equity’s Other Half but is the Relationship Souring?

Since its inception in the 1980s, private equity and private equity-sponsored firms have come to dominate the private credit market. Most private credit funds are created by nominally private equity…

Chris_Chan23 Sep, 2025

Insights Middle Office Regtech

Transaction Quality Analysis Set to Replace TCA

Beginning in the early 2000s, when the algorithms and software capable of performing transaction cost analysis (TCA) on a semi-automated basis first became prevalent, the definition of the function was…

Dariush Hessami30 Jul, 2020

Data Front Office Insights

What Are Your Research Interactions Really Worth?

Since MiFID II’s research unbundling rules came into force in January 2018, with the regulatory intention of eliminating the sellside’s practice of offering investment research as inducements to utilise their…

Helen Dawit5 May, 2020

Insights

Smart Data Analytics: Realising the Value of Untapped Opportunities

In 2019, the global financial services industry is set to spend an estimated USD 50bn on the raw, historical markets and transactions data inputs required to fuel a broad spectrum…

Dariush Hessami29 Nov, 2019

Insights

What is ‘Digital Age’ Technology for CIBs?

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, corporate and investment banks were a tremendous engine of technology innovation.

Dariush Hessami4 Jun, 2019

Insights

What Does Managing Data as an Asset Mean for CIBs?

Banks are one of the greatest engines for generating data: daily, they collectively produce petabytes of transactions, prices, risk metrics, customer information....

Dariush Hessami29 May, 2019

Insights

What Does “Digital Distribution” Mean for CIBs?

The one area where digitalisation within the corporate and investment banking industry has been taking place for the longest is within the realm of e-commerce.

Dariush Hessami21 May, 2019

Insights

What does “Digital Manufacturing” Mean for CIBs?

A digitalised corporate and investment bank is erected on four distinct and complementary pillars.

Dariush Hessami15 Apr, 2019

Insights

What Does a “Digital Culture” Mean for CIBs?

“Corporate culture” refers to the beliefs and norms that determine how a company's employees and management behave when conducting business interactions and transactions.

Dariush Hessami2 Apr, 2019

Insights

What Are Buyside Clients Seeking from Digitalised Corporate & Investment Banks?

A decade after the financial crisis, the buyside (asset managers, hedge funds, institutional investors and large corporates) have changed at least as much as the investments banks that serve them.

Dariush Hessami25 Mar, 2019

Insights

Data in Fixed Income Is a Good Problem to Have

Prior to the onset of the financial crisis and the subsequent wave of resulting global re-regulation, the majority of bonds and swaps trading activity within small-to-medium-sized asset management firms, hedge…

Dariush Hessami5 Dec, 2018

Insights

Quantamental Risk Factor Strategies are Poised to Disrupt Pure Passive Investing

Within the asset management industry, the recent rise in pure passive investing, based on traditional cap-weighted indices, is set to slow down in the near-future as more investors seek to…

Dariush Hessami19 Jun, 2018

Private Markets: Private Credit is Private Equity’s Other Half but is the Relationship Souring?

Transaction Quality Analysis Set to Replace TCA

What Are Your Research Interactions Really Worth?

Smart Data Analytics: Realising the Value of Untapped Opportunities

What is ‘Digital Age’ Technology for CIBs?

What Does Managing Data as an Asset Mean for CIBs?

What Does “Digital Distribution” Mean for CIBs?

What does “Digital Manufacturing” Mean for CIBs?

What Does a “Digital Culture” Mean for CIBs?

What Are Buyside Clients Seeking from Digitalised Corporate & Investment Banks?

Data in Fixed Income Is a Good Problem to Have

Quantamental Risk Factor Strategies are Poised to Disrupt Pure Passive Investing

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