As buy-side firms continue to cut operating costs as competitive pressures on fees intensify, we believe a few key trends will shape the future for equity capital market structure technology, infrastructure and solutions.
In this report we examine those trends - including buy-side cost cutting and the impact it is having on the marketplace, greater modularity in investment technology solutions, and ongoing vendor conglomeration. We also look at algorithm performance elasticity of demand and infrastructure investment, as well as the need for more actionable transaction cost attribution analysis (TCAA).