DLA Piper advises some of the largest financial services companies and institutions on both their day-to-day operations and wider strategic objectives
Financial Services
Our financial services sector consists of hundreds of experienced lawyers across our practices and locations.
We have the resources to represent clients in large banking and commercial transactions, as well as to meet their needs in regulatory, public policy and enforcement areas. Our lawyers are located in all major capital markets.
The global financial services sector has been the object of unprecedented change, challenge and scrutiny in recent years. Expanding into new markets and technologies, coping with tighter regulatory framework and scrutiny, keeping up with pressure to increase profits and controlling costs. We understand the financial services industry and the challenges it faces and possess the knowledge, capabilities and resources to effectively serve it.
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Our experience includes advising some of the largest financial services companies and institutions on both their day-to-day operations, and wider strategic objectives. We help our clients contend with banking industry restructurings, regulatory demands and the compliance costs that have come with reform.
What are the key drivers for optimism and the challenges facing the global financial services sector?
Financial services organisations across the globe are facing unprecedented levels of change and uncertainty. Politically, many countries are experiencing changes in government, contributing to rising trends of "deglobalisation" and being increasingly protective of their national boundaries and institutions. Challenging global macroeconomic conditions have presented headwinds for the business volumes, asset quality and financing conditions for financial institutions, and interest rates and cost of living challenges have yet to calm.
Social, technological, regulatory and environmental considerations now dominate the agendas of financial institutions who are having to engage with a multitude of issues, including the implications of Big Data, how digital banking continues to upend business models, how best to embrace AI while also dealing with the complexities of adopting such technologies, and how to harness the huge opportunities (business and more widely) provided by sustainable finance while managing the threats of greenwashing and environmental litigation which have reached the top of risk dashboards.
In the present moment, these themes are major disruptors to the status quo. Amid this landscape, DLA Piper commissioned a global survey of c.800 major decision-makers in financial services organisations across the EMEA and APAC regions and North America to explore the impact this change is having on the sector.
