FIS insights

Continued pressure on margins during 2023 will bring additional scrutiny to the cost of executing business, predicts FIS’ David Lewis. For the industry, the question will be when, and how hard, to pull the levers that are in reach to improve efficiency and to reduce cost

Questions have been raised over the due diligence undertaken on cryptoexchange FTX, where nothing untoward about its financial controls was reported until it went bankrupt. FIS’ David Lewis examines the implications for conducting risk reviews in a world of traditional and digital assets

FIS’ David Lewis explores how new generations of employees and clients are driving change in securities finance and how performance in the 2020s will be measured by more than basis point returns

FIS’ Ted Allen charts his journey into distributed ledger, detailing the benefits this can deliver to securities finance and the challenges of adapting to the institutional market

FIS’ David Lewis asks how much firms are willing to give away in order to get ahead as they reassess business strategies and build for the future

FIS’ David Lewis welcomes the return of in-person conference sessions and assesses the merits of cooperative data sharing in advance of the ISLA conference in Vienna

FIS’ David Lewis notes that there are already many fund providers where the fund management fees are low or even zero and where securities lending revenues are used to keep the lights on and the funds managed

Reflecting on the past 12 months of market data, FIS’ David Lewis observes that securities finance is getting ever more complex and busy, generating pressure on margins as work levels rise proportionally faster than revenue generation