Despite ongoing geopolitical instability and the ever-present threat of inflation, the overall state of global capital markets remains resilient and poised for more growth in 2025. Potential challenges to continued market expansion persist, however, including concerns over the increasing risk associated with participating in opaque markets, data management failures, never-ending compliance obligations, and inability to meet rising customer expectations.

This report provides insights into some of the key trends driving technology adoption within the global capital markets, analyzing decision-makers’ affinity for technology innovation and spending focus for the next two years. This report also provides IT spending estimates across key regions, categories, and more. It is based on a Q3 2024 phone-based survey of 171 senior technology and operations executives in capital markets.
Clients of Datos Insights’ Capital Markets service can download this report.
This report mentions Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
About the Author
James Wolstenholme
Jay started his career in capital markets as a project manager and developer in the financial futures department, specializing in S&P 500 program trading arbitrage. He designed and built electronic program trading interfaces at Salomon Brothers, later acquired by Citi Group, and then worked on prime brokerage, security finance, fixed income, and commodity projects. Jay was head of North America...