“• Kable’s survey shows that financial markets institutions are increasing their investment in ICT hardware by (X%), compared to 2013, and reach (X%) in 2014.
• In 2014, X% of financial market institutions are planning to increase their overall ICT expenditure (both slightly and significantly) in IT infrastructure.
• Automated origination tools such as electronic document creation, is considered by (X%) of respondents to be the top three IT projects in sales and management platforms for financial market institutions in 2014.”
“1 Trends in ICT budgets
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Survey demographics
1.3 ICT budget changes
1.4 ICT budget allocation by core technology area
1.4.1 Hardware budget breakdown
1.4.2 Software budget breakdowns
1.4.3 Third party IT services expenditure
1.4.4 Telecommunications budget
1.5 ICT budget allocation by function
1.6 Outsourced IT functions
2 ICT investment priorities and vendor mindshare
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Enterprise applications
2.1.2 Business intelligence
2.1.3 Cloud computing
3 ICT procurement trends
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Business objectives influencing IT investment strategy
3.3 IT objectives influencing IT investment strategy
3.4 ICT provider selection
4 Sector-specific trends
4.1 Introduction
4.2 IT expenditure plans for specific financial markets technologies
4.3 Sales and management platforms are receiving the largest investments
4.4 The operations function is receiving the largest investments
5 Summary
5.1 Financial market institutions are increasing their ICT expenditure to gain competitive advantage and ensure sustainability
6 Appendix
6.1 Definitions
6.2 Further reading
6.3 Contact the authors”
“Table 1: Financial markets – enterprise ICT survey geographic breakdown
Table 2: Financial markets – enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Table 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among financial market institutions
Table 4: Financial market institutions (external) ICT budget allocation, 2013 and 2014
Table 5: Financial market institutions’ average hardware budget allocation
Table 6: Financial market institutions’ average software budget allocation by technology
Table 7: Financial market institutions’ average IT services budget allocation
Table 8: Financial market institutions’ average IT consulting services budget allocation
Table 9: Financial market institutions’ average telecommunications budget allocation
Table 10: Financial market institutions’ ICT budget allocation by function, 2013 and 2014
Table 11: Outsourced IT functions – financial market institutions’ current and future outsourcing priorities
Table 12: Enterprise applications – financial market institutions’ current and future investment priorities
Table 13: Enterprise applications – vendor mindshare among financial market institutions
Table 14: Business intelligence – financial market institutions’ current and future investment priorities
Table 15: Business intelligence – vendor mindshare among financial market institutions
Table 16: Cloud computing – financial market institutions’ current and future investment priorities
Table 17: Cloud computing – vendor mindshare among financial market institutions
Table 18: Business objectives which influence financial market institutions’ IT investment strategy
Table 19: IT objectives which influence financial market institutions’ IT investment strategy
Table 20: Factors influencing financial market institutions’ decision to choose an ICT provider
Table 21: IT expenditure plans in 2014 compared to 2013, within specific financial markets technologies
Table 22: Top three IT projects in sales and management platforms for financial market institutions in 2014
Table 23: Top three IT projects in operations for financial market institutions in 2014″
“Figure 1: Financial markets – enterprise ICT survey geographic breakdown
Figure 2: Financial markets – enterprise ICT survey breakdown by size band (number of employees)
Figure 3: Recent and expected ICT budget changes among financial market institutions
Figure 4: Financial market institutions (external) ICT budget allocation, 2013 and 2014
Figure 5: Financial market institutions’ average hardware budget allocation
Figure 6: Financial market institutions’ average software budget allocation by technology
Figure 7: Financial market institutions’ average IT services budget allocation
Figure 8: Financial market institutions’ average IT consulting services budget allocation
Figure 9: Financial market institutions’ average telecommunications budget allocation
Figure 10: Financial market institutions’ ICT budget allocation by function, 2013 and 2014
Figure 11: Outsourced IT functions – financial market institutions’ current and future outsourcing priorities
Figure 12: Enterprise applications – financial market institutions’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 13: Enterprise applications – vendor mindshare among financial market institutions
Figure 14: Business intelligence – financial market institutions’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 15: Business intelligence – vendor mindshare among financial market institutions
Figure 16: Cloud computing – financial market institutions’ current and future investment priorities
Figure 17: Cloud computing – vendor mindshare among financial market institutions
Figure 18: Business objectives which influence financial market institutions’ IT investment strategy
Figure 19: IT objectives which influence financial market institutions’ IT investment strategy
Figure 20: Factors influencing financial market institutions’ decision to choose an ICT provider
Figure 21: IT expenditure plans in 2014 compared to 2013, within specific financial markets technologies
Figure 22: Top three IT projects in sales and management platforms for financial market institutions in 2014…..
Figure 23: Top three IT projects in operations for financial market institutions in 2014″