Technology Strategies for Driving Productivity and Opportunities

Investment banks worldwide face the same challenge: in an era of tougher competition, tighter margins, and increasing client demands, they must double down on productivity to secure an advantage. In short, the sell-side needs to work out how to do more with less.

The solution lies in an embrace of new technology and innovation. Greater automation can deliver the efficiencies that banks need so badly. The latest data analytics tools can unlock insight and reveal hidden value. Emerging technologies including generative artificial intelligence can drive growth.

Releasing bankers from repetitive manual tasks will give them more opportunity to take on work that drives value for the bank.

However, some might ask: Where should we prioritize when resources are limited? This research aims to help investment banks answer that question. By identifying where banks’ junior staff are hitting the greatest pain points and what senior bankers now need most to secure new business, it provides a vision of where new technologies will have the greatest impact in unlocking greater intellectual capacity.

Greater automation can deliver the efficiencies that banks need so badly. The latest data analytics tools can unlock insight and reveal hidden value.