THE NEW REALITIES OF WEALTH

STRATEGY

Charting new paths to growth by standing apart from the competition

Growth and Differentiation

Many wealth managers have ambitious goals. We help them develop a clear strategy to realize their vision and set them apart from the competition.

Growth

To stay ahead, wealth managers must make difficult choices on where to seek growth, from new and existing markets. We help wealth managers develop and execute organic and merger and acquisitions (M&A) driven growth strategies by focusing on where they can create differentiated value for financial advisors and their clients.

Market Entry

Choosing to enter a new market or channel is one of the most challenging and potentially impactful decisions that wealth managers can make. We help our clients determine the potential of new markets by assessing their ability to ensure they can succeed.

Digital

Wealth managers understand the need to improve their digital capabilities to succeed in today’s markets. They also understand the need to make informed choices on where to focus their limited budgets.  We help our clients prioritize digital opportunities across lines of business, products and services.


 

EXPERIENCE 

Using new methodologies to enhance client and financial advisor experiences

Client and Advisor Centric Experiences

The demand for a differentiated user experience (UX) has never been more prevalent throughout the client lifecycle.

We help bridge the gap between financial advisors and their clients. Taking a customer-centric view, our innovation teams use design thinking principles to help you achieve your organizational objectives and meet your clients’ needs.

Each solution within our design and build approach drives optimal experience across  different operating models such as direct to consumer, digitally enabled advisor-led and hybrid models. 

 

 

Efficiency

Integrating new technologies to improve operational efficiency

Continues Progression Towards Efficiency

By streamlining processes and leveraging emerging technologies, our clients can address operational inefficiencies to focus on high-value activities benefiting the bottom line.

Target Operating Model: Design an adaptive organizational model built around business functions defined for optimal service models, supported by an integrated technological architecture

Custody and Clearing: Business case modeling for self-clearing and fully disclosed clearing solutions to identify costs and benefits in vendor

Client-centric models: Establish service models that include functional alignment for specialization and segmentation based servicing, through governance driven management to provide an enhanced client experience

Service Centers: Seamless omnichannel integration across phone, visual interactive voice response (IVR), and live chat to support various methods of customer engagement, while leveraging artificial intelligence and robotics for enhanced service capabilities

Robotics: Leverage robotics process automation/smart routing to enable self-servicing for mass-affluent client segments

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Use artificial intelligence applications to enable virtual assistants and predictive analytics and help streamline experiences for clients/internal agents


 

PRODUCT AND PLATFORM

Improving products and services, tools, and platforms for everchanging client demand

Enhancing Products, Platforms, and Tools

We provide the industry knowledge required to enhance existing products and services, build interactive tools, and provide seamless platform integration to meet changing client demands in an evolving landscape. 

New Products: Expanding existing product lineups to provide clients full suite access across banking, insurance, and wealth; creating ‘primary advisor’ relationships with holistic advice

Advisory Simplification: Consolidating redundant advisory accounts while creating a more holistic process to manage against clients’ investment goals

Risk Analysis Tools: Implementing industry-leading risk and portfolio analytics (BlackRock Aladdin) throughout advisor applications encouraging a shift from brokerage to advisory products

Goals Based Financial Planning: Developing goals-based tools to deliver a focused plan; driving behavioral success across a client’s primary investment goals

Advisor Platform Integration: Seamlessly integrating in-house and vendor platforms across multiple verticals to allow singular access with a favorable client experience

Performance Management: Developing E2E frameworks using KPIs to identify successful performance and user adoption metrics across products, tools, and platforms


 

ENGAGEMENT AND ADOPTION

Driving successful adoption across new tools, platforms, products, and services

User Adoption is Key

With ever-increasing regulatory demands and digitization, wealth firms are going through times of complex change. We understand the need for tailored transformation programs to adopt change across institutions of all sizes.

Launch Strategy: Analyze end users to create personas to accelerate product adoption. Design pilot metrics and identify change agents needed to scale user engagement

Campaign Management: Translate program strategy into a cohesive plan of action. Manage launch delivery partners: marketing, communications, training and support teams

Content Development: Define product positioning, value proposition, and key messaging for communications. Design robust learning curriculums and engaging training collateral

Adoption Tracking: Analyze pilot metrics and KPIs spanning usage and adoption. Leverage metrics to enhance products, tools, platforms, and services driving continued user adoption 


 

PROTECT

Enhancing operations for rapidly changing regulatory environments

Addressing Regulatory Compliance

Our Center of Regulatory Intelligence helps clients implement emerging regulatory change and assist firms with end-to-end transformation: from strategic response, to roadmap planning, and through the execution of change.

SEC Best Interest Rule: Assisting institutions with compliance to manage operational risks with the SECs new disruptive ‘Best Interest Rule’ in September 2019

DFS 187: Helping insurance and annuity providers respond to the NYDFS rule requiring enhanced consumer protections mitigating conflicts of interest 

Know Your Customer (KYC): Enhancing KYC frameworks applying the Customer Account Risk Rating (CARR) methodology, while helping firms adhere to FinCEN customer due diligence (CDD) rules improving financial transparency

Advice: Guiding institutions towards effective risk management, while providing enough rationale for algorithmic recommendations governed by the SEC/FINRA when implementing new technologies


CAPCO DIGITAL

DIGITAL AND API BANKING

Just as digital applications have displaced branch visits, in the near future customers may not even use a bank’s own digital applications for their banking needs. This is the Open Banking revolution.
CHANGE & COST TRANSFORMATION

CHANGE ACCELERATION

Banks must meet multiple competing demands, including regulation, innovation and cost reduction. This requires many change initiatives, which makes effective project management fundamental to success. Change Acceleration is Capco's proven and highly differentiated solution. We transform change portfolios, execute project delivery and reduce execution risk, enabling cost savings through multiple accelerators.
CHANGE & COST TRANSFORMATION

STRATEGIC COST TRANSFORMATION

Minimizing costs is an important focus for financial services organizations. With expanding regulatory burdens driving up the costs of doing business, firms are finding it increasingly challenging to concentrate on growth and meeting escalating customer expectations. Capco can help address the increasing cost pressures directly and effectively in areas, including operations, IT and finance.
FINANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE

FINANCIAL CRIME

As we rely more heavily on technology and the internet, the probability and severity of financial crime continues to increase. In fact, financial crime has become firmly established as one of the largest threats to financial institutions.
FINANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE

REGULATORY REPORTING

For financial institutions, regulatory reporting has graduated from byproduct to prime focus. In an environment of constant and complex regulatory expansion backed by rigorous sanctions, the financial services industry must anticipate and document current and future risk exposures.
DATA & TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

IT STRATEGY

More than ever, financial institutions need an effective IT strategy to optimize bottom line while staying at the forefront of technological innovation. To have a measurable impact, IT strategy must focus on business results while remaining closely guided by practical expertise. Capco responds with a unique combination: deep industry knowledge complemented by expert familiarity with new technologies.
DATA & TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

DATA MANAGEMENT, ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION

Data science and analytics are transforming the face of banking. New approaches to data management have empowered banks to collect and use data in novel ways. When expertly executed, a holistic data strategy enables crucial advantages, including improved approaches to compliance and more effective, data-driven decision-making. Capco's global expertise, combined with a range of data tools, techniques and frameworks, enables and accelerates our clients' data journey.
DATA & TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

BACK OFFICE AUTOMATION

Technology can automate most financial industry processes, eliminating costly, error-prone and unstructured manual processes. Capco's back-office Automation starts with top-down business case evaluation and prioritization of initiatives and continues through to their final delivery. We apply a range of techniques, including machine learning, robotic process automation, blockchain and data analytics, alongside traditional process efficiency tools. This results in intelligent end-to-end automation, increased quality, shortened processing times and lower associated costs.
TECHNOLOGY DELIVERY

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

Today's financial institutions have a challenge on their hands: to innovate rapidly, whilst also enhancing the digital customer experience dramatically. However, they are also heavily reliant on their highly complex legacy systems and battling with increased regulation. They need to deploy transformational technology that harmonizes and modernizes platforms.