In a recent post, I tried to picture the changes transforming deeply the IT within Capital Markets especially in terms of sizing (or better in terms of downsizing).
Crisis is not only impacting budget
The crisis impact is not limited to budget and team size : it is also impacting the nature of the projects we do. Race for complexity is over and in most banks, proprietary trading is not really favored and high frequency trading is not anymore in focus.
Throughout those two specific examples, one can see that the nature of what we do in Capital Markets IT is also changing dramatically : much less exciting topics and IT also becoming less core than before. On the other hand, some other things are not changing : pressure coming from the markets, heavy procedures coming from former size, … the excitement is less but the pain remains the same which means that Capital Market IT is less desirable than before. This is true for people already working in this sector and one can see some people moving to other industries. This is also true for new comers who find this area much less attractive.
This is going to have a very strong impact on Tier2 and Tier3 banks which have to transform deeply to maintain their attractivness otherwise the gap between top players and the others will get larger.
Crisis is not only impacting budget
The crisis impact is not limited to budget and team size : it is also impacting the nature of the projects we do. Race for complexity is over and in most banks, proprietary trading is not really favored and high frequency trading is not anymore in focus.Throughout those two specific examples, one can see that the nature of what we do in Capital Markets IT is also changing dramatically : much less exciting topics and IT also becoming less core than before. On the other hand, some other things are not changing : pressure coming from the markets, heavy procedures coming from former size, … the excitement is less but the pain remains the same which means that Capital Market IT is less desirable than before. This is true for people already working in this sector and one can see some people moving to other industries. This is also true for new comers who find this area much less attractive.
Competition with other industries is tougher
This trend is even stronger if we consider changes in other industries : in former times, Capital Market IT was one of the areas where IT was considered as core business. Since e-business is blooming, there are a lot of other areas relying on IT for their core business. Therefore IT guys interested in contributing to core projects, without belonging to a pure IT company, have now a wider range of possible target companies than before.This is going to have a very strong impact on Tier2 and Tier3 banks which have to transform deeply to maintain their attractivness otherwise the gap between top players and the others will get larger.
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