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
Racing the Clock: Why Financial Services Policy Pressure Will Ramp Up
July 1, 2024 By John Donnelly, Head of US Financial Services *As we reach the year’s midpoint, Capstone is revisiting our sector 2024 predictions and looking ahead to the second half of 2024. As Capstone predicted, the 2024 financial services landscape has...
The Modern-Day Price Fixing Problem and the Emerging Crackdown on It
By Makenzy Mohrman, Capstone Financial Services analyst Alleged price-fixing schemes have evolved over the last several decades, and so has the policy response to it. With the dawn of the digital age, backroom hushed conversations at industry conferences about...
‘There’s no money left’ The UK Labour Party’s Fiscal Conundrum
May 20, 2024 By Mathew Gilbert, Head of Capstone’s European Practice The last time the UK Labour Party was in government in 2010, Liam Byrne, the chief secretary to the Treasury under Gordon Brown, left a note for his successor, which simply said: 'Dear chief...
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