Asset Management Systems Insights

The average daily volume for fixed income electronic trading reached a new record of $10.6bn in January surpassing the previously set record of $10.3bn in May last year, according to a report by Greenwich Associates, as trading houses rely increasingly on automation. “A big impact is the migration to home working,” says Tom Britton,... read more

Investment management of financial institutions remains roughly as it was 40 years ago, according to Sandro Schmid, co-founder and CEO of AI tech firm, AAAccell, part of the LPA Group Schmid says the success or failure of analysts cherry-picking individual stocks is so often merely coincidence, as numerous research studies have proven. ... read more

Each year, we ask the market to vote for those fintechs they believe stand out from the competition – those who have gone the extra mile in terms of development and servicing their clients. As well as sector specific categories, we ask the market to suggest those organisations that have demonstrated business attributes that have set them... read more

Thanks to beefed-up, post-financial crisis reserves and generous government support, the European banking industry has proved resilient so far throughout the pandemic-triggered economic wreckage. But a bout of consolidation probably lies ahead, in part because of competition from fintech for lower-cost digital distribution channels. ... read more

For more than 30 years, Eurobase has been providing world-class, reliable, integrated treasury and trading solutions to banks and financial institutions worldwide. We asked Gill Bacon, business development director, banking to tell us why now, more than ever, integrating trading, treasury and sales operations can help navigate the ever-complex... read more

In this bobsguide video, sponsored by FactSet, Drake Bushnell, VP director of content and technology solutions strategy at FactSet and Byron Bianco, managing director of BMO Capital Markets discussed how the use of data will change the financial services industry. Asked what the future of data management looks like, Bianco said: “For... read more

Individual investors don’t always know how to manage their money in case of major global events. What role do banks play in guiding and educating those investors in such moments?  In the first six months of 2020, Belgian investors have shown an increasing interest in online investments and made 50 percent more transactions than last... read more

For fund managers battling against the fallout from the pandemic, the need for fundamental digital transformation has never been more urgent. Technology will play a critical rule in safeguarding the sector’s resiliency to future shocks, but tackling this challenge requires a collaborative, cross-industry approach that begins at the market... read more

It’s rapidly become a platitude that financial services will look utterly different post-crisis.   At Broadridge we wanted to understand in more detail the views of financial services leaders at this juncture. We surveyed c-suite executives and their direct reports from 500 financial institutions globally, with fieldwork completed... read more