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-makersโ 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 Insightsโ Capital Markets service can download this report.
This report mentions Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure.
About the Author
Vinod Jain
Vinod Jain is a Strategic Advisor who supports the efforts of the Capital Marketsย team at Datos Insights, focusing on distributed ledger technology, tokenization, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, private markets (equity and credit), institutional trading operations, post-trade processing, surveillance (trade, market, and communication), and regulatory compliance across equity, fixed income, and OTC derivatives. Vinod brings to Datos Insights over...
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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...
Sang Lee
Sang Lee serves as a Special Advisor atย Datos Insights. Previously, Sang was a Managing Partner and co-founder of Aite Group. Sang's expertise lies in the capital markets vertical, and he has advised many global financial institutions, software andย hardware vendors, and professional services firms in sell-side and buy-side electronic trading technology, market structure, and emerging technologies. Sang has been quoted extensively...