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Breaking Down Silos in Debt Capital Markets
Is your capital markets origination platform as joined up as it should be? Silos are bad for business. So far, so obvious. Every bank...
Stephan Gimpel
Dec 3, 20242 min read


The new DCM battleground
During my career in DCM, the conventional areas of differentiation and competition were hiring top talent, fostering the right culture...
Oliver Corstjens
Oct 2, 20243 min read


AI in Debt Capital Markets?
Like everyone else, we don’t know exactly what impact AI will have in fixed income primary markets over the next years. There are some...
Stephan Gimpel
May 1, 20241 min read


How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the DCM Fintech Ecosystem
Too many Fintechs offering too many overlapping solutions in the DCM space, leading to confusion and adoption paralysis. That’s a common...
Stephan Gimpel
Nov 17, 20232 min read


Can AI price bond new issue indications?
A real pleasure to share the stage with many of our fellow capital markets fintechs, banks and investors on yesterday’s EventsRadar...
Stephan Gimpel
Nov 3, 20232 min read


The Banking Transformation Paradox
Transforming workflows in capital markets is a complex task The tech graveyard is littered with failed projects and abandoned tools that...
Stephan Gimpel
Aug 4, 20233 min read


Can't Microsoft build DCM tech?
When software fails, blood boils. The irony dawns that a timesaving device has the opposite effect, and it's costing you money. As such,...
Oliver Corstjens
Apr 28, 20232 min read


The DCM arms race few know about
There's an arms race going on in DCM and many don’t know about it. The goal is to build a DCM operating platform for everyday workflows,...
Oliver Corstjens
Mar 1, 20232 min read


To build or to buy your DCM software?
Like many SaaS companies selling into a specialised market (in our case DCM departments of investment banks) our biggest sales hurdle is...
Stephan Gimpel
Jan 24, 20232 min read


2022 at Bots
They always say that if, as a founder, you’re not embarrassed by your product when you first announce it, then you launched too late. We...
Stephan Gimpel
Dec 16, 20222 min read


Welcoming our AI Overlords: Observations from a bond market practitioner testing OpenAI's chatGPT
Technological progress comes in cycles, where the underlying technological advances are usually amplified in popular opinion into even...
Stephan Gimpel
Dec 7, 20225 min read


Takeaways from the 6th annual Events Radar DCM Technology Panel
It was an honour to participate as a panelist in the 6th annual "Impact of Technology on Debt Capital Markets" event. To share one of my...
Stephan Gimpel
Dec 3, 20222 min read


The case for more DCM data
Digitise, digitalise, datafy… There is a difference between the terms digitising and digitalising. Digitising is converting data to...
Oliver Corstjens
Oct 28, 20222 min read


Solving investment banking problems the Startup Way
Easily the most common question I get from former colleagues and other DCM bankers is about the change from a large investment bank to a...
Stephan Gimpel
Oct 14, 20223 min read


How tech will change the DCM travel experience
Obvious statement: the state of primary markets is fluid. "Markets move" is the playful rebuttal Syndicates usually use when challenged...
Oliver Corstjens
Sep 23, 20222 min read


Why does collaboration within DCM teams matter?
A mainstay in DCM worklife is the weekly DCM team meeting. These meetings last about 30 minutes and usually involve a desk head from each...
Oliver Corstjens
Aug 19, 20222 min read


Someone’s after your spreadsheets (and it’s not just us)
One of the great achievements of every good investment banking analyst programme is to turn even the most non-technical liberal arts...
Stephan Gimpel
Aug 5, 20222 min read


Are you part of the DCM FinTech conversation?
There’s a considerable amount of literature on the subject of startups and a fair amount of consensus around certain ideas. Some of these...
Oliver Corstjens
Jul 22, 20222 min read


Wouldn’t DCM Pricing Automation result in Homogenisation?
When prospective clients hear Bond Origination Technologies (Bots) automates new issue pricing, we sometimes get the question: won’t all...
Oliver Corstjens
Jul 1, 20222 min read


Why so many DCM teams are data rich but information poor
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to draw instant conclusions from the reams of data that your Syndicate desk generates day in, day out? To...
Stephan Gimpel
Jun 17, 20222 min read
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