Recognizing both this essential role and the mounting pressures that are shrinking the number of community and regional banks in the U.S., Greenwich Associates is expanding its practice devoted to supporting community banks.
From a corporate finance perspective, the biggest challenges for large companies in Europe and Asia in 2020 related to operations. However, fast response from central banks and governments globally avoided a liquidity crisis and set financial markets and corporate balance sheets back on a sound footing.
Almost 70% of buy-side firms plan to increase compliance budgets in 2021, following the unprecedented market upheaval and operational crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asset managers are discovering a new tool in the fight for increased profitability in an increasingly competitive institutional market: persona client segmentation.
Only 70% of the wealth clients participating in the 2020 Greenwich Associates Wealth Benchmarking Study reported high satisfaction with their U.S. wealth advisor.
While fewer than one-in-10 institutional investors currently outsource their trading desks, one third of the investors participating in a recent study by Greenwich Associates see outsourced trading desks as a good solution to help buy-side firms manage their trading flow and achieve best execution.
Regional and community banks scored points with U.S. middle-market companies last year by leveraging their high-touch service models to provide support during the COVID-19 crisis.
Expected turnover will likely bring new business to banks that stepped up to provide small businesses with the support they needed last year—especially the regional and community banks that took home Greenwich Excellence Awards in Small Business Banking for 2020.
This combined data offering will help unlock funding for small and mid-sized businesses by providing banks with ‘next-gen’ intelligence on company valuation and financial service spending