The Future of Investment Banking

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

Over the last decade, $5 trillion of market value has been created in financial services.¹ The sector’s gross profit pool has swelled to an amount larger than any other major group – larger than software, e-commerce, semis, and even healthcare. Since financial services are ingrained into nearly every aspect of our life and work, it is a natural target for disruption and innovation. Fintech has just experienced its very first venture-fueled innovation cycle with the percent of venture dollars rising from <5% of dollars deployed in 2011 to ~22% in 2021.² Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in the space has fueled a new wave of technology evolution around the world from omni-channel payment providers to B2B payments and fully re-bundled digital banks.

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

Strong financial controls, a robust banking system and evolving payment technology are vital to the growth of the South African economy. Without the correct frameworks and systems, accessibility to it becomes a significant challenge – for the public and private sector alike.

whitePaper | January 9, 2020

The United States played a starring role as the rest of the world watched the President become the third leader in history to be impeached by the House in December. Our chief protagonist kept investors guessing by prolonging the ongoing US-China trade wars while simultaneously applying a slew of tariffs across Europe, South America, and elsewhere in Asia.

whitePaper | May 17, 2023

Cryptocurrencies are a type of virtual currency that are secured with cryptography and exist only in digital form on our computers and smart devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, etc. They allow users to trade easily and quickly, as the execution of a transaction, anywhere in the world, usually takes only a few seconds or minutes. Cryptocurrencies are becoming more popular and interesting for new users each day. Additionally, the blockchain technology itself is gaining popularity, which, besides the creation of cryptocurrencies, offers enormous opportunities for the progress and upgrade of many industries. Therefore, the number of users and the size of the market itself is growing steeply each year. Despite the market growth and the increase in the number of users, centralized exchanges still face challenges, one of the biggest of which is definitely that users have to blindly trust them with their funds.

whitePaper | April 25, 2022

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are the underpinnings of a new financial infrastructure, similar to how the internet was the underpinning of a new information infrastructure. In this paper we present Ledgity, the Neo-Private Bank & Financial infrastructure dedicated to financial advisors and their clients, paving the way for a greater adoption of crypto asset investments and blockchain technology. Beyond the digitization of investors’ experience, we make it easy for financial advisors and their clients to widen their investment scope. For the first time crypto assets and tokenized financial products are easily accessible to traditional finance. Ledgity is the first digital wealth management infrastructure that harnesses the benefit of blockchain technology for the representation and the exchange of assets. Crypto asset investments opportunities and asset tokenization are offered to all, at a finger touch, on our fully integrated platform.

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Trends in customer demand, technology, and regulation drive the development of an open financial ecosystem in which the consensual sharing of customer data among financial institutions (FIs) and businesses creates new value for consumers and business users. This Aite-Novarica Group report analyzes this trend and the evolution from open banking to open finance and to a truly open economy. The report is based on interviews with executives from banks and fintech firms in Europe and North America.