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Author Archives: Ian
The New Face Of Prime Brokerage
The prime brokerage landscape has changed dramatically since the Lehman’s collapse in 2008. A couple of years ago both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley had 2/3rds of the Prime Brokerage Market. Today, the top 4 brokers now control 68% of … Continue reading
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Top 10 Challenges For Investment Banks
Following on from my interview in Banking Technology on rebuilding the investment bank, Accenture have recently published an interesting white paper on the key challenges facing the sector. Here are the key highlights : Sustainable Risk and Cost Management • … Continue reading
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Exchange Independence
Over the last 100 years, exchanges have continued to provide a key service in the form of price discover, that is matching buyers and sellers and ultimately discovering the price that a trade will take place. The price discovery process … Continue reading
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Rebuilding The Investment Bank
Check out a great article from Banking Technology magazine on my views, along with Philip Freeborn (CIO, Barclay Capital) and Mark Butterfield (CIO, Nomura), on rebuilding the investment banking model IAN ALDERTON Email : ian@IanAlderton.com Tel : … Continue reading
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Risk Management – Looking Ahead
Flaws in risk management have been stated as the major cause of the credit crunch. A recent S& P Survey found that less than 2% of fund managers have adequate systems to manage risk, or in other words, 98% of … Continue reading
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Market Evolution – Post MiFID
European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) made an interesting presentation on how the Financial Markets have evolved since the introduction of the Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The pan European MiFID directive was introduced on 1st November 2007 and had … Continue reading
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Commodities – The Super Cycle
Over the past few years, the commodity markets have experienced a worldwide boom which can only best be described as a super cycle. This growth has been directly powered by the emerging BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China … Continue reading
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Looking Over The Precipice – PART 3
In parts 1 and 2 of “Looking Over The Precipice”, I discussed the current barriers to innovation along with the 3 stages of how an organisation responds to the global downturn. In the final posting for the series, I will … Continue reading
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Looking Over The Precipice – PART 2
In my previous post “Looking Over The Precipice – PART 1”, I discussed that 66% of organisations have no clear strategy for innovation. In this posting, I will explain how to get behind the statistics and how you can embrace … Continue reading
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Looking Over the Precipice – PART 1
In my capacity as an Innovation expert, I was recently asked to present to the CIO Executive council on the role that Innovation plays in a global down turn market. Key to the presentation was a recent survey from the … Continue reading
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