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whitePaper | May 23, 2023

How can AI help, no matter which stage you are at in the credit cycle? There are multiple stages in the life cycle of a loan from origination and onboarding right through to monitoring and risk management, securitization and trading or investing. Each part of the cycle requires access to comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date data. Digital transformation is leading to greater efficiency in all of these areas but going digital alone may not be enough to fully harness the benefits of new technologies when it comes to regulatory compliance and risk management. And beyond that, what is the value this enhanced data flow brings? How can AI tools give companies a competitive edge?

whitePaper | February 21, 2020

Does a “regular” bank that does not deal in complex instruments still need real-time risk management? To date, banks have generally accepted having risk analyses available one or two days after the fact. And for years, they have made ends meet with this delayed risk insight. So why invest in something new? Why rock the boat?

whitePaper | October 9, 2022

Fintech has emerged as one of the most widely used if not poorly defined buzzwords in the finance industry over the past few years. Fintech players are becoming an increasingly important part of the financial services ecosystem, with leading banks scrambling to leverage technological advances by partnering with or acquiring fintech start-ups, to strengthen customer relationships and build scalable networks.

whitePaper | June 15, 2023

Asset managers headquartered in Europe saw their private market assets continue to grow in 2022, albeit more slowly than in previous years, and their total assets under management (AUM) exceeded €2.3 trillion (US$2.4 billion) by the end of the year. Institutional investors remain the region’s major allocators to private assets—European high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) investors are still underexposed to private asset classes, although that is set to change.

whitePaper | October 21, 2021

During the pandemic banks had to experiment and take risks that under normal circumstances they would never have considered in order to keep operations up and running, such as rapidly deploying a range of digital tools. To the surprise of many, employees and customers enthusiastically embraced these digital offerings, accelerating technology maturity and adoption by several years. Banks suddenly had hard evidence that digitizing operations could bring enormous efficiency and scale advantages while actually serving customers with greater personalization. These insights, in addition to capitalization changes, are contributing to a new wave of M&A activity in the U.S. as banks look to scale up quickly as the economy emerges from the pandemic. There were more than 50 deals in the first four months of 2021 with a total value of almost $25 billion, up from $6.5 billion in the same period in 2020, according to an S&P Global report.

whitePaper | April 14, 2023

A Chief Financial Officer is central to the success of any organization. So any changes to that role, especially if those changes are being driven by broader trends impacting the function of the CFO across multiple industries and operational models, are important to recognize and understand.