Back-Office-Outsourcing

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

The increasingly complex marketplace is pressurising asset managers to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. Léonard Ollier explains how managers can fully equip their needs by outsourcing their front-to-back office.

Oggi sono tre le principali sfide che gli asset manager e gli investitori istituzionali si ritrovano a dover affrontare: efficacia operativa, ottimizzazione dei costi e una crescente pressione regolamentare. In un mondo caratterizzato da bassi tassi di interesse, concentrazione dei player di mercato e compressione dei margini, tali esigenze sono ben chiare per...

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.

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.