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Could digital assets help expand capital raising?

At Accenture’s capital markets team, we’ve completed a research project into the future of capital raising. We discussed some of the findings at a breakfast during Sibos, and I thought, I would share some of the headlines in this blog. The results…

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How Gen AI can boost relationship managers’ productivity

Our recently published Asia wealth management report focuses on two major areas for firms: The importance of mobile as a channel that, our research shows, wealth management firms can greatly improve; and the evergreen—and so far unanswered—question of relationship manager (RM) productivity.…

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First base for your gen AI journey? Could be efficiency

In my previous blog in this short series on generative AI in capital markets, I gave my perspective on why gen AI is so game-changing for our industry. From the highest level, using gen AI to drive efficiencies could help firms to…

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The generative AI revolution in capital markets

Check out any news website these days, and you’re likely to see a story about generative AI. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard achieving rapid growth in users, there’s a widespread expectation that such tools will radically change how people worldwide live…

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Capital markets’ new performance frontier

Today, disruption is accelerating everywhere you look. The past three years have seen CEOs and leadership teams tested as never before, as they’ve had to navigate their organizations through multiple challenges ranging from a pandemic to supply chain dislocation, and from geopolitical…

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The changing retirement recordkeeping landscape in the US

The defined contribution (DC) industry in the US has an important role to play in helping to solve a multitude of future retirement challenges faced by many Americans. However, the attractiveness of the recordkeeping business is waning for many providers: administration fees…

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Capital markets firms prepare to do battle for digital creatives

Creativity, color, and fun might not be the first words that spring to mind when you think of capital markets, but I think that’s about to change. The growing emphasis on the customer and employee experience is challenging our industry to bring…

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Think Big: the Metaverse’s B2B Opportunities

The Capital Markets industry should be recognised for diving in early into the Metaverse. Many firms are already looking or experimenting on how to enhance business-to-consumer (B2C) and employee experiences through leveraging this spectrum of digitally enhanced worlds and realities. And while…

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How your T+1 program could help pave the way to T+0

Today, capital markets firms in North America are mobilizing their efforts for the transition to T+1 settlement in 2024. With this deadline quickly approaching, any firm that hasn’t yet launched its T+1 program, should do so as a matter of urgency: a…

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Is your technology future-ready? Some thoughts to ensure it is.

What drivers are shaping the future of wealth management and advice across Europe? Our recent research study, Creating the wealth management firm of tomorrow, conducted jointly with PIMFA aimed to provide some answers. In the underlying survey, we asked C-Level industry executives…

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