Capstone Financial & Business Services
What Makes us Different?
Proposed regulation and a burgeoning activist philosophy on the part of regulators is transforming today’s financial services industry. Our financial services team complements its expertise in policy and politics with substantial buy-side and sell-side experience. We rigorously identify and quantify regulatory and political risks and opportunities in a wide swath of financial service capital market companies and specific private equity transactions.
We Predict Policy,
Quantify Impact, and Recommend Strategy.
Capstone analysts track legislation and guidance from the earliest stages until the implementation phase and beyond to help clients create value-added growth strategies. We balance sophisticated investment data with expert policy analysis to provide clients with innovative research on political and regulatory forces that impact the financial services sector.
Our network of expert contacts includes former regulators, lobbyists, consultants, and law firms in key jurisdictions. We leverage these relationships to arrange conversations with the right people “on-the-ground” and have built strong relationships with international organizations, legislators, supervisory authorities, and a broad spectrum of stakeholders including think tanks, trade associations, lobbyists, and academics. Understanding the opaque connections allows us to track and analyze regulatory and policy changes and challenges.
Selected Issues
- Asset/Wealth management
- Banking
- Business services
- Education
- Fintech
- Housing finance
- Insurance
- Legal services
- Markets and exchanges
- Payments
- Real estate
- Securitization
- Specialty finance
Case Studies
Capstone has a proven track record of providing in-depth analysis across a wide range of policy and regulatory issues. Our case studies demonstrate our financial services team’s ability to help clients navigate complex policy challenges and develop targeted revenue-driving strategies.
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Our Latest Financial Services Insights
The Red Wave, Coming Tax Battles, and Why They May Spur Affordable Housing Crisis Action
November 18, 2024 By Makenzy Mohrman, Capstone Financial Services analyst As the political tides shift in Washington—and with that shift, the likely end of many Biden-era housing affordability initiatives—policies to tackle the housing affordability crisis face a...
Chopra’s Risky Basel Endgame Gamble
October 14, 2024 By Keegan Ferguson, Capstone Financial Services Analyst The tortured history of the Basel III Endgame proposal— rules that aim to strengthen bank regulation, supervision, and risk management—took another turn in recent weeks when Bloomberg and others...
Financial Services Policy in a Harris Administration
August 6, 2024 By John Donnelly, Head of Capstone's Financial Services Team Capstone believes Vice President Harris’ views closely align with those of President Biden and that she, as president, would do little to change the regulatory outlook for financial services....
