Capital markets firms will increase their IT spending on client life cycle management offerings over the coming years, causing the market to grow by approximately 41 percent from 2019 to 2022, according to a new report from market research firm Aite Group. The Aite Group’s estimates on IT spending for client management wares encompasses software… Read More >>
Cloud Migration & Blockchain Outpace Cybersecurity Efforts
Cybersecurity efforts at many financial services firms are falling behind new IT systems such as cloud migration tools and blockchain systems, and the situation is likely to get worse, according to survey from the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) that was conducted by the Ponemon Institute. “The consensus among respondents to the survey is that… Read More >>
Custodians Are Embracing APIs: Report
The securities servicing industry, according to a new survey, is reaching a “tipping point” in its embrace of application program interfaces (APIs), which are those key links among software systems that serve as superhighways for data, and are intended to help firms boost efficiency and adopt to new business models. The new report from SWIFT… Read More >>
AML Costs Hit $14.3M Per Large U.S. Firm
Complying with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations costs financial services firms based in the United States and Canada more than $31.5 billion per year. That is the conclusion drawn by a recent report from LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The report, entitled “The True Cost of Anti-Money Laundering Compliance in the United States and Canada,” is derived from… Read More >>
Legacy IT Puts the Brakes on AI: Report
According to a recent survey, Wall Street’s financial technology end-users are increasingly turning to AI, or artificial intelligence (also known as machine learning), to transform their operations through algorithms and computer code. That is one of the bottom-line findings from the “2019 Artificial Intelligence Outlook,” a survey conducted by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. Another survey… Read More >>
Clearing Reforms Need to Be Consistent Globally: WFE
Securities clearing has seen many reforms since the Great Recession, but these overhauls such as the improved management of credit, market and liquidity risk still need to be consistently implemented across the globe, according to a new report from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and Oliver Wyman. The report, “The Future Of Clearing,” finds… Read More >>
Buy-Side Traders Question Need for CAT: Report
The big data project, the consolidated audit trail (CAT) to collect every order, cancellation, modification and trade execution for all exchange-listed equities and options transacted via U.S. financial markets, apparently had some doubters on the buy side before the project hit a major snag earlier this month The concerns of buy-side equity traders about the… Read More >>
Synchronized Global Regulation Is Waning: Deloitte
A “new era of global regulatory divergence” is developing, following years of “intense scrutiny by regulators around the globe.” That intense scrutiny, which lasted approximately a decade, included “synchronization” of financial standards and rules put in place across the European Union and elsewhere in the aftermath of the financial tremors and structural shocks that shook… Read More >>
$462B Market for Financial Blockchains by 2030: Report
Despite growing skepticism about blockchain projects for financial services, business information provider IHS Markit is predicting in a new report that revenues via these efforts will soar to $462 billion by 2030. A key harbinger of the times to come is “the value of blockchain in the financial sector reached $1.9 billion in 2017,” according… Read More >>
Investors Shaken by Uncertainty Look to Private Markets
Institutional investor confidence in financial markets is trending downward and investors may shift their allocations from public to private markets, according to two separate reports upon shareowner activity for 2019. The research and advisory firm Corbin Advisors, which focuses on investor relations (IR), reports that investors started the new year harboring high levels of uncertainty… Read More >>
