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The Covid-19 pandemic is crushing banks in research — and analyst startups are winning

I left a 20-year career inside big banks to set up my own research venture last year — and since Covid-19 hit, client interest has surged

The Covid-19 pandemic is crushing banks in research — and analyst startups are winning

We’re all still grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, but one thing is clear: it has accelerated all trends. At the prosaic level, this means we’re all online shoppers now or prefer video to physical conferences.

And at the unconventional level, this means the rise of everything from virtual experiences (think about watching a music concert in Fortnite) to open source solutions to global problems (think about Covid dashboards and research).

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