Sean O'Dowd

Senior Research Analyst, Capital Markets

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Sean O'Dowd is a senior research analyst in the Financial Insights' Global Capital Markets Advisory Service, which focuses on the business strategies, market trends and technologies impacting financial institutions.

Industry Expertise

Sean has held a number of consulting and analyst positions within financial services over the past ten years. Sean has experience dealing with various investment operations systems in areas such as market data, corporate actions, portfolio accounting, and custody. His previous positions dealt with investment research, security valuation and pricing, portfolio analysis, portfolio performance reporting and investor perception studies.

Background

Most recently, Sean was a analyst with the Corporate Banking practice for Financial Insights, handling proprietary research and custom consulting. Prior to Financial Insights, Sean was a senior research associate for advisory firm Ashton Partners. Prior to this, he was a derivatives analyst for State Street Corporation.

Education and Industry Affiliations

Sean received a BA in finance from Bentley College and is pursuing an MBA from F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Research Authored by Sean O'Dowd

Financial Services: Crisis of Confidence
Patricia McGinnis, Aaron McPherson, Jeanne Capachin, Sean O'Dowd, Barry Rabkin, Dana Wiklund
October, 2008 - Doc # FIN_0550      Event Proceeding
David Potterton, Global VP of Research led the discussion surrounding the global perspective on the current financial crisis, it's implications for Banking, Capital Markets, and Insurance along with t...

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Financial Insights' Global Capital Markets Taxonomy, 2008
Sean O'Dowd
October, 2008 - Doc # FIN214463      Market Overview
This Financial Insights report provides a functional structure of the global capital markets. It focuses on the functions within the capital markets industry that drive technology spending. It provide...

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Worldwide Credit Crisis: The Contagion Spreads to Europe and Asia/Pacific
Sean O'Dowd, Simona Macellari, Michael Araneta, Shawn Yip, Jeanne Capachin, Aaron McPherson, Patricia McGinnis, Karen Massey, Dana Wiklund, Marc DeCastro
October, 2008 - Doc # FIN214654      Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective examines how the credit crisis that began in the United States has affected Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, with implications for the banking landscape and the ...

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Fight or Flight: The New Face of Banking and Its Impact on Spending
Abhishek Kumar, Aaron McPherson, Rachel Hunt, Sean O'Dowd, Angeline Lee, Peter Farley, Trevor LaFleche, Dana Wiklund, Rob Burbach, Jeanne Capachin, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Barry Rabkin, Patricia McGinnis, Ted Dangson
October, 2008 - Doc # FIBA55Q      Perspective
George Soros states that we are at the end of the accepted paradigm that financial markets tend towards equilibrium and that active involvement from government is required to avoid the boom and bust c...

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Takeover: A Short-Term Solution in an Industry with Longer-Term Issues
Dana Wiklund, Aaron McPherson, Dana Gould, Jeanne Capachin, Patricia McGinnis, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Barry Rabkin
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN214221      Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective reviews the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the Federal Finance Housing Agency. "A perfect storm" has hit the U.S. mortgage industry. This...

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Irrational Exuberance Turns to Irrational Despair: Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers
Dana Wiklund, Dana Gould, Jeanne Capachin, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Barry Rabkin, Ted Dangson
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN214345      Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective provides the FinSights Advisor's weekly perspective on the financial services industry. It provides financial institutions with timely guidance about maximizing one...

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Surfing the Demographic Waves: Will Financial Institutions "Hang Ten" or Wipe Out?
Barry Rabkin, Aaron McPherson, Dana Wiklund, Dana Gould, Jeanne Capachin, Karen Massey, Marc DeCastro, Patricia McGinnis, Sean O'Dowd, Robert Burbach, Bill Bradway
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN214057      Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective provides the FinSights Advisor's weekly perspective on the financial services industry. It provides financial institutions with timely guidance about maximizing one...

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Fuel Your Business Analytics Engine: Improve Your Mileage Using Unstructured Data
Patricia McGinnis, Sean O'Dowd
July, 2008 - Doc # FIN_0535      Event Proceeding
This webcast discussed where the competitive advantage lies and how to fuel business analytics with unstructured data, adding more data in more dimensions to the targeted analyses and financial decisi...

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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Feds: What's Next for Mortgage Market Players?
Bill Bradway, Jeanne Capachin, Patricia McGinnis, Dana Gould, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Angeline Lee, Robert Burbach
July, 2008 - Doc # FIN213521      Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective provides the FinSights Advisor's weekly perspective on the financial services industry. It provides financial institutions with timely guidance about maximizing one...

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Unstructured Data and Text Analytics in Capital Markets
Sean O'Dowd
July, 2008 - Doc # FIN212553      Market Overview
This Financial Insights report looks at the business need, challenges and opportunities, leading IT solutions, and winning business scenarios capital markets firms need to consider when dealing with u...

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