Eight challenges plaguing investment banks

Infographic | November 30, 2021

With the acceleration of digital business, financial services organisations need to ensure their IT capabilities keep up with customer and employee demands. Seamless connectivity, end-to-end security and cloud readiness are just some of the IT prerequisites that the industry must address to support hybrid working models, compete with newcomers to the sector and comply with evolving regulations.

Infographic | March 29, 2023

The future of digital banking, which has revolutionized the banking industry and looks promising, offers a convenient, secure, and fast way to access financial services.

Infographic | December 1, 2021

But what is Big Data? In a nutshell, it is the ability to retain, process, and understand data like never before (Zikopoulos, 2015). Big Data is when you have challenges that cannot be handled by traditional database systems. Challenges in the context of Volume, Variety, Velocity, Veracity. These can be found in Financial Services. In fact, technology is so integral to banking that financial institutions are now almost indistinguishable from IT companies. This article looks at the Financial Services industry to examine Big Data and the technologies employed. It further covers ROI, Big Data analytics, regulation, governance, security, and storage as well as obstacles and challenges that have made the industry what it is today.

Infographic | March 22, 2022

The most common reasons for outsourcing financial services are: Reduce Costs, Focus on Core Business, Enhance Service Quality, Access to Financial Skills and Infrastructure, Critical to Business Needs, Drive Transformational Change, and Manage Business Environment.

Infographic | December 24, 2019

Tech firms have enjoyed a deluge of funding in the last few years. As discussed in our State of Venture Capital report, 2018, in particular, was a bumper year, with a total of $254 billion invested globally into ~18,000 startups through venture capital funds—a sharp increase of 46% from 2017’s total. Figures for 2019 are not yet completely finalized, but initial reports point to a slowdown in funding levels in the first half of the year and a mild rebound in Q3.

Infographic | January 6, 2020

Finance and procurement have complementary strengths and corresponding priorities, so working collaboratively makes sense strategically and practically. Despite this, many enterprises still have a strong disconnect between these departments. To learn more about the existing relationships between finance and procurement, we interviewed over 280 finance professionals in our sourcing sentiment survey. Our findings, bolstered by analyst insights, make a strong case for increased collaboration between finance and procurement.