Speculation that machines will replace commercial banks’ relationship managers misses the mark and overlooks a tremendous opportunity for the industry.
Buy-side traders are frustrated by the fragmentation of equity markets caused by the launch of exchanges and venues, and support measures that would impose tougher requirements on new exchanges.
Digital banking capabilities are now the most important driver of perceptions of ease of doing business and new data from Greenwich Associates shows that the “effectiveness of digital channels” now ranks as the number-one driver of client satisfaction in small business banking.
The winners of the 2019 Greenwich Excellence and Best Brand Awards in U.S. Middle Market Banking all have one thing in common: they deliver traditional banker advisory values along with the convenience of intuitive digital channels.
After years of steady growth, spending on regulatory compliance could level off or even contract this year as financial service firms globally look to rein in costs by outsourcing expertise.
ETFs are making up a growing share of the volume on institutional equity trading desks as institutional investors embrace them as a low-cost and efficient path to market beta, sectors, factors, and other investment exposures.
Concerns about liquidity problems in corporate bond markets all but evaporated in 2019, due in large part to new technology that allows both the buy side to make up for smaller dealer balance sheets and banks to provide liquidity more efficiently.
Asset managers seeking an edge in an increasingly competitive market are turning their eyes inside their own organizations to new technologies that allow them to extract more value from investment research and data.