ALL INSIGHTS

Explore how asset owners are transforming portfolio resilience through data unification, AI integration and total portfolio management. Key insights from BNY’s 2025 Summit highlight strategies to thrive amid volatility and unlock long-term growth.

Private markets have become a cornerstone of institutional investment strategies. As allocations to alternative assets increase, the complexity of managing the associated data has grown exponentially. Explore how industry leaders are addressing these data management challenges unique to private market investments.

The second annual survey conducted with The Harris Poll captures insights form community bank leaders and small business executives within their communities on everything from their top investment priorities for 2026 to what they need to best serve their number one client segment.

Shifting trade corridors, accelerating digitalization and evolving regulations are transforming the global trade finance landscape. BNY convened leaders from the Asian Development Bank, BAFT and the ICC to explore how the ecosystem is adapting and the opportunities that uncertainty presents. The panelists discuss everything from alternative settlement currencies and supply-chain finance for SMEs to tokenization, data sharing and standardization.

Economic uncertainty from U.S. tariffs and shift in interest rate policy generated heightened market volatility in Q2. Bonds experienced notable fluctuations due to global trade tensions and uncertainty regarding the federal funds rate. Meanwhile, international and global equity flows increased, indicating a shift toward broader diversification.

Amid mounting pressure to deliver improved growth and performance, financial institutions in APAC are turning to operational transformation to gain market share and increase client satisfaction and retention. This is being achieved in a number of ways, including the outsourcing of functions, process automation and the adoption of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) to create more agile, scalable and resilient investment operating models.

BNY, in collaboration with Stanford’s Research Institute for Long Term Investing, surveyed a group of asset owners representing over $1 trillion in assets under management to get a pulse check on the current private markets evolution being driven by artificial intelligence. Responses illustrate both the challenges and opportunities of investing in alternative assets and give a glimpse into the potential industry-wide transformation.

Explore the growing trend towards open banking in the United States and learn how the technology promises to modernize the consumer pay-by-bank journey and redefine how businesses get paid.