Is your capital markets origination platform as joined up as it should be? Silos are bad for business.  So far, so obvious. Every bank...

During my career in DCM, the conventional areas of differentiation and competition were hiring top talent, fostering the right culture...

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...

Too many Fintechs offering too many overlapping solutions in the DCM space, leading to confusion and adoption paralysis. That’s a common...

A real pleasure to share the stage with many of our fellow capital markets fintechs, banks and investors on yesterday’s EventsRadar...

Transforming workflows in capital markets is a complex task The tech graveyard is littered with failed projects and abandoned tools that...

When software fails, blood boils. The irony dawns that a timesaving device has the opposite effect, and it's costing you money. As such,...

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,...

Like many SaaS companies selling into a specialised market (in our case DCM departments of investment banks) our biggest sales hurdle is...

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...

Technological progress comes in cycles, where the underlying technological advances are usually amplified in popular opinion into even...

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...

Digitise, digitalise, datafy… There is a difference between the terms digitising and digitalising. Digitising is converting data to...

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...

Obvious statement: the state of primary markets is fluid. "Markets move" is the playful rebuttal Syndicates usually use when challenged...

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...

One of the great achievements of every good investment banking analyst programme is to turn even the most non-technical liberal arts...

There’s a considerable amount of literature on the subject of startups and a fair amount of consensus around certain ideas. Some of these...

When prospective clients hear Bond Origination Technologies (Bots) automates new issue pricing, we sometimes get the question: won’t all...

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...