All Eyes on Outsourcing

As in so many walks of life, learning how to delegate in financial services is not easy. There are always certain things that people would rather execute themselves. Even if outsourcing has become common practice over the past decade, especially among small and mid-sized firms, it has mainly applied to low-level, back-office-type services, less exposed to risk and somewhat removed from capital markets firms’ core money-management activities.

While banks’ primary functions have historically been