Back-Office-Outsourcing

Over the last few months, pandemic posed severe challenges to the financial sector and the securities niche could not be an exception. On the one hand, intermediaries have had to rely increasingly on technology, realizing investments to strengthen the digital channel and extract value from data.

Matthew Davey shares his views on how middle and back-offices can make use of artificial intelligence.

The asset management industry has professionalised a lot in recent years under the combined effects of the growth in assets under management, regulations and technological disruptions.

Asset managers have been facing a challenging environment, and this is not expected to end soon. Enhanced regulatory requirements and, more recently (but potentially for a while), low interest rates have put the historically high-margin investment management business under pressure. The latter has also been accentuated by the overly frequent difficulties...

Front-to-back outsourcing solutions: Combining back-office fund accounting, portfolio management and the custody business to create economies of scale, increase operational efficiency and provide asset managers with new value-added services.

Buy-side companies with strong growth ambitions face many challenges. Ever-changing regulations, digitisation, cost pressure as well as a challenging and competitive market environment are just a few examples.

In a fast-changing business world, the terms “agility” and “flexibility” are somehow absolutely necessary for organisations to compete, especially large-scale organisations operating across the world.