Asset managers are ready to adopt research management platforms over the coming two years, a new survey finds. Potentially, that readiness represents a coming sea-change in an industry traditionally based on the skills and wisdom of its individual practitioners. The drive to “automate investment team workflows” is focused in the front-office, where the trading actually… Read More >>
Execs Are Growing More Fearful of Bad Data: Survey
Senior risk and regulatory financial services executives in the Americas and Asia-Pacific report changing attitudes regarding the accuracy of their organizations’ data and the impact of upcoming regulations. According to the topline June 2018 results of the most-recent annual survey conducted by AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting systems and techniques for risk assessment and… Read More >>
Firms Are Moving Fast to Public Clouds: Survey
Much has been made about how financial services firms have heartily embraced private cloud computing but it appears that they are now ready to put their money where their mouth is as far as public clouds, according to the results of a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Reuters global survey of senior IT… Read More >>
ISDA Survey: Number of Dealers to Shrink While Costs Rise
Respondents to an ISDA derivatives industry survey have expressed optimism about the future of their market, but almost half of those surveyed say that the number of derivatives dealers is declining, and that the cost of using derivatives is increasing. In particular, the survey found that 47.3 percent of respondents say “the number of derivatives… Read More >>
Global Hedge Fund Industry AUM Hits $3.2 Trillion
Hedge funds saw total assets under management (AUM) jump 24 percent to $3.2 trillion between September 2014 and 2016, according to the fourth International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) hedge fund survey. The survey finds that the increase could reflect a combination of more widespread reporting across jurisdictions, market performance, and net fund subscriptions, but… Read More >>
Fear of Cyber-Attacks Rises Among Financial Services Firms
A new DTCC survey finds that financial services firms now cite cyber-security issues as one of their top concerns as the frequency of major cyber-attacks and security breaches has increased. A “record 84% of respondents” to the post-trade services utility’s Systemic Risk Barometer named cyber-risk as one of their top five concerns, which represents an… Read More >>
Aite: Is Big Data Jargon or Strategy?
“Big Data in Capital Markets: The Placebo Effect?” a new report from market research from Aite Group, examines whether the move to adopt Big Data methods and strategies in financial services is, as the report asks, “jargon or strategy?” Big Data consists of very large volumes of structured and unstructured information that when reviewed can… Read More >>
Survey: Regulatory Overhaul Boosts Role of COO
The status of chief operating officers (COOs) appears to be on the rise as financial services firms take on dramatically new business models driven by global regulatory and market structure changes, according to a survey, sponsored by Broadridge Financial Solutions and conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Broadridge, which provides investor communication services, solutions and… Read More >>
