European sell-side firms are looking at multiple ways to grow in a hyper-competitive market.*

The hunt for growth is on.Are you ready to rise?

* All data is sourced from an FIS and Longitude global survey of sell-side decision-makers in Europe that was conducted between March and May 2017.

By focusing on six operational principles, you can reap the rewards.

TalentCustomer Experience

Digital Innovation

Emerging Technology

Data Management

Automation

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acquiring new customers

improving investment performance

say their existing technology is not fit for growth,

say the same about their operations function.

59% 52%

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improving operating margins

64%

47%

36%

Master data management say they’re effective at

unifying data sources for a single view of the truth.

say the same about big data analytics.

60% 56%

Redefine the customer experience

say understanding customers’ needs is a key element of an effective customer experience.

61% see improving the customer experience as a top benefit of their technology investment.

45%

Increase automation

have reached full or near-full automation in collateral management – that will rise to

have fully or nearly fully automated risk and compliance, and

in the next 3 – 5 years.say they’ll achieve that in 3 – 5 years.

33% 33%

52% 46%

and

But

Adoptemerging technologies

Expedite digital innovation

will recruit digital technology expertise to accelerate innovation.

35% will collaborate with innovative third parties.

33%

Rethink the talent mix

say software development and programming skills will be important for driving growth over the next 12 months.

believe that digital change expertise is important for growth.

think they don’t have sufficient skills.

are concerned their expertise in this area isn’t effective.

BUT

BUT

11%

12%

63%

66%

have gone live with distributed ledger technology/blockchain,

are researching and developing, piloting or testing blockchain.

have implemented artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning.

are doing the same with AI solutions.

ANDONLY

BUT

ONLY

AND

10%

54% 58%

7%

And 54% of firms are confident about achieving their growth ambitions in the coming year.