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
Waves at The Ballot Box: Why EU Electoral Dynamics will Have Underappreciated Implications Across Industry
By Mathew Gilbert Introduction Capstone believes a new European Commission (EC) agenda and Parliament elections will drive a host of underappreciated national and EU-level policy implications across industries as European Union (EU) as policymakers double down on...
Banks Fight Back: Why Banks Will Push Back Aggressively Across Several Regulatory Fronts and why Regulators Won’t go Down Without a Fight
By Keegan Ferguson Introduction Capstone expects banks to push back aggressively across several regulatory fronts in 2024, establishing a notable and underappreciated inflection point for regulation in the industry. But, we don’t expect regulators to go down without a...
The CFPB unshackled: Why the Temperature will be Turned Up on the Consumer Finance Industry
By John Donnelly Introduction Capstone expects consumer-friendly regulatory pressure to ratchet up for financial companies providing consumer-facing products and services as freed-up regulators race against the electoral clock to pursue Biden's agenda before the 2024...
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