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Investment Banking
Accelerate Transformation with Salesforce for Investment Banking
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As consumer technology trains us to expect instant results, that same mentality carries over to the workplace. Everyone wants things, and they want them now, whether that’s an interactive dashboard about the portfolio of live deals and staffing assignments, a balance sheet from a portfolio company’s last valuation, or maybe just a cup of coffee...
Financial Services
Financial Services at Dreamforce: Dynamic Solutions to Enhance Efficiency
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The de-stressing puppy station – that’s what some attendees might remember the most from this year’s Dreamforce conference. The puppies were there to help with relaxation and mindfulness during a hectic few days at the event. Between the thousands of sessions, multiple parties, and many client conversations, the Silverline Financial Services team found a welcome...
Financial Services
Don’t Miss These Dreamforce 2022 Financial Services Sessions
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Dreamforce is just a few weeks away, and along with checking the weather in San Francisco and playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers on repeat, you’re probably starting to think about the sessions you’ll attend. With over 1,000 sessions happening over three days, deciding which ones are worth your time can be overwhelming. Our Silverline...
Investment Banking
3 Challenges Impacting Investment Bank Relationships
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The most successful investment banks have one thing in common: they recognize the power of relationship capital and use it to drive business. Understanding the extent of your organization’s connectivity to other people, firms, and information in the marketplace is essential to long-term growth. After a year that brought seismic changes to the way firms...
Investment Banking
Why Digital Marketing Can Be a Powerful Tool for Investment Banks
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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...
Investment Banking
5 Trends Shaping the Future of Investment Banking Today
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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...
Banking
Transforming the Lending Experience with Salesforce
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Historically, loan origination workflow was paper focused and labor intensive. Measuring the efficiency and quality of work was difficult to achieve. The height of piles or folders on desks helped you know whether or not your employees were overwhelmed or had capacity. It was seemingly impossible to understand where bottlenecks existed in the system and...
Financial Services
Webinar Recap: Why your CRM Needs ERM
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On October 8, 2020, I was so excited to sit down with an incredible panel of CEOs and co-founders from Silverline, Equilar, and DotAlign to discuss the evolution of enterprise relationship management over the past decade. While the practice of ERM is not a novel concept, the advances we have collectively seen over the last...
Capital Markets
AI Journeys and Einstein Insights with Stonebriar CTO Steve Siler
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In May 2020, McKinsey issued a report about the future of work in the wake of coronavirus, making key observations about firms effectively carving out a competitive edge in this market by changing the way they look at their data. Opportunities abound to mine the mountain of data on which most firms sit; it is...