Despite recent signs that global equities market volatility is showing signs of life once again after a period of prolonged slumber, investment bank execution franchises should remain mindful of the long-term imperative to continue to reduce costs at the margins across the whole of the brokerage business. In this article, GreySpark Partners analyst consultant Rihards Buliga argues that there is still a meaningful amount of blood that can be squeezed from the stone of sellside equities brokerage and execution in 2018 through the implementation of trading technology systems rationalisation and through ancillary client services segmentation exercises.
