Today, capital markets players are seeing rapid increases in trading volumes, market volatility, and in the demand for real-time, cross-portfolio risk analytics and regulatory reporting. Together, these trends are intensifying the urgency of moving away from rather inflexible, cost-laden on-premise infrastructures towards high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructures on Cloud which are capable of executing increasingly heavy…

In today’s volatile post-pandemic environment, the possibility that a counterparty may default is one of the biggest risks that investment banks need to manage. This reality was underlined in April by the large losses incurred by some industry players during the collapse of Archegos Capital, totaling to around $10bn in a matter of days.[1] Those players…

Together with a group of our industry experts, we have developed and published our Capital Markets Industry Vision for 2025. Grounded in an analysis of the financial results of over 140 capital markets firms for 2020, it describes what we see playing out over the next several years and more importantly what we think companies…

In Accenture’s recent perspective on the new cloud imperative in capital markets, we said leveraging cloud is vital for good performance in a digitized capital markets world. But we also pointed out that we estimate that today only between 5% and 10% of technology solutions across the industry are public cloud based. Why the gap…

As capital markets firms experience economic uncertainty, market volatility and trading volume peaks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the collateral management function – as it did in the financial crisis starting in 2008 – is again coming into focus. While collateral management may not be in the spotlight during most market cycles, its importance is…

Since the 2008 financial crisis, derivatives have been in the regulatory spotlight. One of the dedicated protective rules that was introduced in 2016 was around the need to post risk-based initial margin into segregated accounts for uncleared derivatives. This requirement will continue to be phased in through 2021. In order to conform with these uncleared…