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Pandemic and Recovery Bring Collateral Management…
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Uncleared Margin Rules: The Challenges Aren’t…
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Trading Up: New Platform Strategies for…
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Capital Markets Trends: Investment Banking
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How to overcome barriers to cloud in capital markets
POSTED ON • BY Graeme Hughes
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…
Pandemic and Recovery Bring Collateral Management to the Fore
POSTED ON • BY Michael Cheek
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…
Uncleared Margin Rules: The Challenges Aren’t Over
POSTED ON • BY Michael Cheek
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…
Trading Up: New Platform Strategies for a Disrupted Market
POSTED ON • BY Tom Syrett
The good times are back in capital markets, although you wouldn’t know it from the headlines in Europe. The industry is generating around a trillion dollars in net annual revenues and overall profitability is high. But taking a look behind the numbers reveals a cause for concern, particularly for some of the sell-side players. The…
What’s in Store for Investment Banks Through 2022?
POSTED ON • BY Markus Boehme
Accenture’s latest analysis, our Capital Markets Vision 2022, shows a highly diverse picture of investment bank performance and outlook. Yes, the top four investment banks (all generating above $20bn in revenue and all US domiciled) are creating significant economic profits and thus shareholder value. And yes, profitable niches do exist further down the scale for…
Capital Markets Trends: Investment Banking
POSTED ON • BY Markus Boehme
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…
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