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Reimagining the Middle Office

The middle office has played a crucial, yet often underappreciated role in investment banking operations. As the name ‘middle office’ suggests, middle-office processes – and therefore people and technology too…

Helen Dawit19 Sep, 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Is Digitalisation an Opportunity for Corporate & Investment Banks?

Over the past decade, both the environment in which CIBs operate and the rules that they need to abide by have drastically changed.

Dariush Hessami18 Mar, 2019

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Is Digital Transformation a Threat to the Business Model of Corporate & Investment Banking?

What originally started as ‘electronification’ – the automation of external-facing, front-office processes and workflows – has become much more pervasive, and it now encompasses the entire value-chain.

Dariush Hessami12 Mar, 2019

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Breaking the Feudal Model: Digital Transformation in Investment Banking

Investment banks have traditionally structured their operational activities along discrete business lines, which were traditionally split up by asset class and geography.

Dariush Hessami12 Jun, 2017

Reimagining the Middle Office

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?

Is Digitalisation an Opportunity for Corporate & Investment Banks?

Is Digital Transformation a Threat to the Business Model of Corporate & Investment Banking?

Breaking the Feudal Model: Digital Transformation in Investment Banking

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