Financial Services
Why Should You Invest in Commercial Real Estate Technology?
Reading time: 4 minutes
The past year has seen a big upheaval in commercial real estate, and companies are getting very creative with how they think about their portfolios. It’s also a highly acquisitive market, specifically with regard to healthcare transactions for senior living facilities and healthcare treatment facilities. Companies need to adapt in order to grow in a...
Financial Services
Tableau CRM: Getting Started with Data Sets
Reading time: 4 minutes
If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time at Silverline, it’s that the Salesforce platform is only getting more and more complex. Understanding how to organize your development, data management, and adoption of the application is super important for the success of your organization. So, where to get started with such a complex platform?...
Financial Services
Why Digital Marketing Can Be a Powerful Tool for Investment Banks
Reading time: 4 minutes
Many of the firms we work with saw 2020 as a year of reckoning for their marketing strategies. Disruption from COVID forced M&A and corporate access professionals to rethink their approach. What are the risks, and where are the major opportunities to holding events online and launching digital marketing strategies? Can information be securely shared...
Financial Services
5 Trends Shaping the Future of Investment Banking Today
Reading time: 6 minutes
What made the difference between success and failure in the last year? 2020 changed everything. Finance was no different. Dealmaking in 2020 split into two parts: the first half cratered at $971bn, with a 6.6% year-on-year decline by value while deal count was down 15.5%. Contrast that with the second half of the year, with...
Capital Markets
Exploring the State of Security and Compliance in 2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
In summer 2020, Gartner forecasted worldwide security and risk management spend would approach nearly $124B as demands for security and monitoring rose to meet the needs of remote working. And after several high-profile data breaches, like the Solar Winds attack in the second half of the same year, cybersecurity emerged from the back office as...
Capital Markets
ESG in Action: How Financial Sponsors & Corporations Can Contribute
Reading time: 2 minutes
In December 2020, I had the pleasure of helping to host our first annual Silverline Capital Markets & Innovation Summit with industry thought leaders from Nasdaq, Refinitiv, Salesforce, Equilar, and more. The goal of our event was to opine on all that happened in 2020 and share our priorities and predictions for the year ahead...
Capital Markets
Driving Diversity with Nasdaq & Equilar
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On December 1st, 2020, Nasdaq filed a proposal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to “adopt new listing rules related to board diversity and disclosure. If approved by the SEC, the new listing rules would require all companies listed on Nasdaq’s U.S. exchange to publicly disclose consistent, transparent diversity statistics regarding their board of...
Capital Markets
The Future of Data and Innovation
Reading time: 2 minutes
In December 2020, I had the pleasure of helping to host our first annual Silverline Capital Markets & Innovation Summit with industry thought leaders from Nasdaq, Refinitiv, Salesforce, Equilar, and more. The goal of our event was to opine on all that happened in 2020 and share our priorities and predictions for the year ahead...
Capital Markets
The Continuous Innovation Mindset of Agile M&A, Consulting
Reading time: 3 minutes
In December 2020, I had the pleasure of helping to host our first annual Silverline Capital Markets & Innovation Summit with industry thought leaders from Nasdaq, Refinitiv, Salesforce, Equilar, and more. The goal of the event was to host a dialogue about all that happened in 2020 and share our priorities and predictions for the...
MuleSoft
Hyperforce, Einstein, and Slack — Oh my! Unpacking the Dreamforce to You Keynote
Reading time: 6 minutes
A lot happened in the wider world of Salesforce last week. From acquisition announcements to innovative launches, the Dreamforce to You keynote left viewers with much to be excited about, besides James Corden’s cold open. (We’re still crossing our fingers for Marc Benioff car karaoke!) Let’s dig into some of what we learned. Salesforce acquires...