Effectively managing potential trade settlement fails—when either the seller does not deliver funds or the buyer does not deliver securities in an appropriate form on settlement date—is a key element in driving efficiency across the entire securities market ecosystem. Even though most trading operations are driven by automatic STP processes today and many banks have…

For investment banks and capital markets firms struggling to keep pace with evolving market conditions, the cloud offers a number of significant opportunities. It can enable organizations to calculate pricing and risk more easily, optimize environments (right-sizing for testing and availability), process trades and transactions (with increased horizontal scalability and redundancy) and migrate function-based SaaS…

Full implementation of the European Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) are on the horizon following the final draft publication of the regulatory technical standards on the 25th May 2018, with final settlement discipline rules now entering into force in either Q3 or Q4 of 2020 following the finalization of the next consultation period. CSDR is…

Technological innovation is transforming the bounds of possibility for organizations around the world. These developments have major implications for capital markets players, both in terms of their own operations and in how alpha is created. While I looked in my previous post at the advances in artificial intelligence and in “extended” reality, we will turn…

Change, as the saying goes, has never been this rapid before. And it is unlikely to ever again be slower than this rapid pace. Keeping track of these developments has never been more important—or more difficult. That is why each year Accenture puts together the Technology Vision report, an in-depth analysis of the tech trends…

In my last post, I shared five design principles that will be critical for creating a competitive advantage in capital markets organizations over the next five years. Specifically, capital markets firms will need to embrace operating models and technology that’s intelligent and automated, data-led and client-centric, open and accessible, agile and resilient, and simple and…