Oct 8, 2020
NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon today released its paper, developed leveraging data provided by SWIFT, entitled "Capital Markets Infrastructure: What is the New Normal after COVID-19?". The paper assesses the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the world's capital markets infrastructure (CMI), and what CMI providers need to think about going forward. The CMI consists of all of the components that make the flow of money across global financial markets possible. While CMI providers traditionally were exchange complexes, clearinghouses and depositaries, the landscape of providers has broadened to include many critical elements, such as: global trading access and connectivity, data and analytics, process efficiency, and regulatory, risk and compliance management.
In addition to disrupting people's health, lives and jobs, the COVID-19 pandemic ended the 11-year U.S. stock market bull run. It also prompted the most extreme stress event since the 2008 global financial crisis with the quickest draw-down on record. The paper points out that message volumes in March 2020 were four times normal levels while transaction sizes slumped by 46% during the first half of 2020. However, CMI providers remained resilient despite sharply increased trading volumes, helping to absorb the massive shocks and strengthen the overall capital markets community.
The COVID-19 crisis and consequent market volatility has played out against a backdrop of a fast-changing financial services environment. The surge of pandemic-driven digitalization, combined with central bank and regulatory intervention, competitive dynamics and evolving investor behavior, are driving a transformation of various financial services segments, including:
As we look ahead and learn from the COVID-19 market dislocation, financial markets and CMI interaction will continue to evolve with a focus on:
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