Live Insight: Henderson Global Care Growth Fund

Join Aite Group research director Julie Conroy and her expert team for a one-hour webinar as they identify the top 10 trends that will shape the retail banking and payments landscape around the globe in 2019 and beyond.

Factor-based investing techniques have become popular among equity investors, due to their potential to generate higher risk-adjusted-returns.[1] Stock portfolio selection usually requires a trade-off between performance and risk and can be influenced by multiple investment preferences and constraints. Join us in this webinar as our experts dive into credit ratings’ scores & factors, the building blocks that create the final credit score, and explore the following: What can credit ratings’ underlying scores and factors tell us about the relative strengths of issuers with similar ratings? How can we identify factors that may generate a potential alpha signal from the underlying components of S&P Global Ratings’ Corporate issuer credit ratings (ICRs)? Is it possible to construct a portfolio with higher risk-adjusted returns than the S&P 500 Index using Financial Risk and Business Risk scores? How to hunt for opportunities in the speculative-grade stocks using the Financial Risk and Business Risk scores?

The continuous trend toward cloud hosting of enterprise applications is clear. Recent surveys shows that Financial Institutions’ attitude toward deploying Payment processing solutions on the cloud have also shifted. Financial Institutions are eager to benefit from the agility and scale that the public cloud offers, but security, data governance and regulatory requirements concerns - as well as a lack of cloud skills – may stand in their way driving many of them to assess their understanding of, and readiness for, SaaS based Payment solutions.

Market share for community financial institutions has dropped below 20%. Megabanks and fintechs are gobbling up new consumers at an alarming rate. More than half of consumer loans are originated by fintechs. Commercial lending is next up for major disruption. How can you win consumers in this new marketplace? How can you preserve what truly makes you a community institution while embracing innovation that works? And how can you do it in an uncertain rate, economic, and regulatory environment?