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Banks’ IT spending has been consistently on the rise for the last two decades. In 2023, Gartner predicted that banks would spend around $650 billion on technology, and in a recent study about three-quarters of those queried said they were planning to invest more in 2024. A large portion of
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The prime financing sector has undergone significant transformation in recent years. Market cycles, shifts in monetary policy, bad actors (Archegos), and geopolitical events have influenced risk and revenue dynamics. Rising interest rates have increased benchmark financing costs, negatively affecting buy-side entities dependent on affordable leverage yet benefiting prime financing providers.
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Pre-empting and managing the unknown has always been a conundrum in financial markets. When asked what the greatest challenge for a statesman was, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan replied ‘events, dear boy, events’. Today we ask have events ever been as impactful on markets as they are today? This period of
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The last few years have reshaped the exchange-traded fund (ETF) landscape. It was just a handful of quarters ago when environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) ETFs were all the rage, drawing in billions of dollars of flows around the world into both equity and fixed-income funds.1 But a soaring
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Global financial markets are under pressure not only to unlock innovation but crucially, to maintain and improve operational stability in the process, as highlighted in a recent IOSCO consultation on market outages. While great strides have been made to improve system resiliency, there is always room for improvement. And there
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