Concerns about liquidity problems in corporate bond markets all but evaporated in 2019, due in large part to new technology that allows both the buy side to make up for smaller dealer balance sheets and banks to provide liquidity more efficiently.
Asset managers seeking an edge in an increasingly competitive market are turning their eyes inside their own organizations to new technologies that allow them to extract more value from investment research and data.
Technology is the one tool that will enable financial advisors to fend off robo advisors and other competitors and allow them to retain clients and grow assets.
The financial world’s center of gravity continued moving toward technology in 2019—and the acceleration of that shift will be at the center of global markets in the new year.