Accenture’s latest research – our Capital Markets Vision 2022 report –  reveals that asset management is one of the most profitable sectors in capital markets. Despite, and partly because of, this success, we expect the next few years to be challenging. The economics that have led to this profitability, combined with the constant threat of…

Last week, I shared upcoming capital markets trends for the investment banking industry. Now, let’s examine the trends we discovered in our Capital Markets Vision 2022 report that could impact the market infrastructure industry. Did you know market infrastructure is a $100 billion industry today? Yet, the outlook for its exchange, platform, and asset servicing…

In my previous blog post, I shared some of the top-level findings of our latest report, Capital Markets Vision 2022. In short, our analysis predicts three overarching industry trends that will drive a period of ongoing change in capital markets. But what is happening at the sub industry level? We’ll delve into the effects of…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave asset managers a holiday gift late last year with the announcement of the 2019 exam priorities for the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). The SEC releases the OCIE exam priorities each year to give proactive asset managers the chance to review their practices and records in…

It’s been said so much that it’s almost cliché, but the wealth management industry is being disrupted in ways we’ve never seen before. From robo-advice, to changing client expectations due to demographic shifts, firms are finding themselves having to transform their business models not just to keep up—but to remain viable. I am sure you’re…

From Charles Darwin to David Packard, there’s been much said about organisms and organizations adapting to change—rather than ignoring their new environments. Framed by disruption and uncertainty, the “old” ways of working are becoming less nostalgic and more of a case study. Business and economic models are evolving today faster than ever before; it’s a…