Controlling costs Controlling costs remains an absolute priority, but so too does finding new areas of growth. Discerning where clients seek value, what services they expect as a matter of course, and what services and products they are willing to pay extra to receive, can give investment banks important insightsRead More →
Challenging landscape To succeed in this environment, investment banks will have to negotiate a challenging landscape. One important concern for investment banks is that the IT development required to address regulatory concerns may have ‘crowded out’ other important, forward-looking technology investment. Clients, for example, value web portals and electronic tradingRead More →
Decreased revenues Over the last five years, investment banks have dealt with decreased revenues through cost reductions, while maintaining, for the most part, reasonably strong ties to their clients. Over the next five years, however, this picture could change dramatically due to a number of key factors: • Deadlines forRead More →
Trading platforms We then asked about trading platforms themselves. Here we found opinions divided in roughly equal proportions over use of an IB-supplied (single-dealer) portal, versus multi-dealer portals. In all cases but equity derivatives, the plurality of respondents felt that the amount of usage of the two types of portalsRead More →
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