The High Performing investment Bank: Introduction (1 of 2)
Without question, the past few years have been challenging for investment banks. In the midst of this volatility and transformation, Accenture conducted a study to identify the characteristics of high...
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Last week, Owen Jelf introduced the concept of high performance investment banking. This week, I’ll talk about how an investment bank can achieve success in a turbulent market: by choosing a business...
View ArticleTransforming the capital markets firm: Three elements to successful...
A number of regulatory, market and economic challenges face capital markets businesses as they try to regain profitable growth. There are also changing client behaviors: as clients themselves seek...
View ArticleTransforming the capital markets firm: Getting technology transformation...
Since 2007, capital markets firms have been progressively reducing their front-office costs. IT costs, however, which are often fixed with respect to changing revenues, remain high, including the need...
View ArticleTransforming the capital markets firm: Overcoming barriers and moving forward...
Transformation is a difficult and lengthy process, but as I touched on last week (see Transforming the capital markets firm: Getting technology transformation right), the benefits to the bottom line...
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