In banking, the analytics arms race is on. Commercial and business banks are late to the analytics party, as advanced analytics have been adopted at a much faster rate in a range of other industries — including consumer banking.
Institutional investors increased their annual spending on risk and analytics platforms to $700 million, as “risk tech” expenditures nearly doubled to 10% of total buy-side trading desk technology budgets in 2017.
As institutional investors combat an increasingly complex and expanding list of strategic issues, a growing number are turning to outsourced CIO (OCIO) providers to access investment expertise and secure better investment outcomes.
Although the names at the top of Asia’s corporate banking market were unchanged from 2017 to 2018, the industry as a whole is actually in the midst of an accelerated evolution, as large companies and a growing list of global, regional and domestic banks work to sort out who is—and who wants to be—relevant to whom.
The need for “alpha” among investors attempting to keep pace with growing and future liabilities given inadequate funding levels and low savings rates is fueling demand for focused investment strategies.
MiFID II will make the European corporate bond market more transparent, and likely more electronic. But investors are waiting to see what this means for liquidity in the market longer-term.
The 2017 Greenwich Quality Leaders in Canadian Institutional Investment Management Services are Addenda, Greystone Managed Investments Inc. and Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management.
Marketplace lending, formerly known as “peer-to-peer” loans, could be entering a new phase of growth as fintech lenders start packaging their loans into securitized financial products that could attract major investment from institutions.