In early 2021, an army of amateur investors sent shockwaves around Wall Street. Coordinating themselves over the social media site Reddit, they ramped up the share price of the video game retailer GameStop, leaving several financial institutions nursing losses.¹ This sequence of events was regarded as a landmark moment for capital markets. It dramatically illustrated…

The future of work in Capital Markets will likely involve a flexible blend of remote and on-premises working. In fact, Accenture’s Future of Work Study 2021 found that 83% of workers from across the economy regard a hybrid model as the optimal approach for the future. Navigating this shift successfully also means striking a fine…

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…