Given the regulators’ increasing focus on resilience and the relentless economic pressures driving the need for greater efficiency, most firms recognise the need for action. But does the sheer size and scope of the challenge limit the ability of ‘off the shelf’ solutions to deliver impactfully and make it a daunting prospect for the C-suite...Read More
As the world reflects upon the impact of the last 6 months and starts to revise strategy based upon the ‘new normal’ that it now finds itself in, we look at what C-level leaders should be doing to catalyse change across their middle and back office domains. Click here to read on….Read More
Solving for Post-Trade Data: Enabling, not Disabling, Innovation Held on 7th July, 2020 Following on from our recent publication on “Solving for Post Trade Data: Enabling, not Disabling Innovation in Capital Markets”, Ascendant Strategy hosted a panel discussion to discuss the challenges of data management and innovation in the post-trade space. In our original report,...Read More
Is the industry obsession with data as a panacea for inefficiency misguided and distracting focus from elsewhere? Or is the solution more complex than the C-suite are led to believe and so requires a different approach? To read our thoughts, click hereRead More
The phrase ‘legacy technology’ often creates negative connotations for the capital markets industry as a whole, where it is perceived as a blocker for change. But what is often misunderstood is that for most, it is this legacy technology that underpins the ‘safe’ in safe custody. With rip-and-replace strategies typically impractical due to the risk...Read More
As the industry pauses for reflection during the unprecedented times that the world now finds itself in, the role of technology and its potential to transform operating models becomes increasingly evident. Digitalisation was already at the forefront of the agenda for much of the industry, where leadership understood the transformational impact it could have upon...Read More
Ascendant’s James Maxfield was requested by the publication to capture his thoughts on Post Trade transformation. This paper was first published in the Journal of Securities Operations & Custody Volume 12 Number 2 View document here Read More
Harrington Starr’s recent Financial Technology magazine features their list of “THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES OF 2020” – and Ascendant Strategy are on that list. Here is the article from the magazine that captures the outlook for 2020 from Ascendant’s perspective…. View document hereRead More
