Technologie

Les entreprises d’investissement peinent à faire face aux exigences de Lutte contre le Blanchiment d’Argent (AML) et de Connaissance du Client (KYC), un gestionnaire de fonds déclarant que son équipe AML/KYC ne peut pas croître assez rapidement. La tendance vers la démocratisation des marchés privés ne fait qu’augmenter la pression.

The European Securities and Markets Authority, or Esma, on Thursday announced that from 2025, cyber risk and digital resilience in Europe’s securities sector will take precedence alongside ESG reporting in terms of overarching priorities for the supervisors in EU member states.

The typical reasons that prompt asset managers to acquire new software often include recommendations from regulators following an onsite visit or the realisation that their current resources cannot efficiently handle projected workloads. These decisions are predominantly reactive, seldom proactive, writes Gregory Kennedy in his latest column for Investment Officer Luxembourg.

The future of supervisory reporting by investment funds - Luxembourg is home to some 14,000 of them - is embedded into a firm’s technology infrastructure.

One example of this development is taking shape in Luxembourg, where a local data firm that was acquired by a London-based fund data specialist last year is building a one-stop solution that lets fund managers track the distribution of their funds in multiple countries and report to the relevant supervisors by pressing a single button. 

It was 2020, and there were countless stories of young investors becoming millionaires overnight by investing in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. I didn’t want to miss out, so I decided to invest a modest amount of 2500 euros.

Curiosity

The possibility of becoming a millionaire was enticing, but I also saw this as a way to educate myself about a ‹new› concept called blockchain. This technology was the foundation of cryptocurrencies and was set to transform countless industries.

Verena Ross, the chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, Esma, has laid out a robust European framework for improving financial markets, boosting trust and transparency. But in a speech in Germany on Monday, she also identified the industry’s sluggish response to digitalisation and “greenwashing” as barriers to progress.

Globally active Accelex has set up in Luxembourg to sell its next-generation software as a service solution aimed exclusively at private markets because of the country’s leadership in private assets. The UK-headquartered company sees itself playing a key role in the maturation of the private assets market, including through the increased availability of such funds to retail investor clientele.

Client experience is becoming a more important competitive battleground in asset management, particularly for wealth managers who face pressure to meet the needs of younger, digital native investors. Nearly 40% of asset managers in the survey said that the client experience was a key point of differentiation versus their competitors, up from just 7% a year earlier, according to a study released this week.

A stellar performance of a small number of listed tech companies is largely responsible for the recent recovery in public stock markets. For Ben Prade, partner at international tech investor GP Bullhound, it remains to be seen whether this can serve as a full market revival. Nevertheless, he is upbeat about the prospects for private tech investments, saying 2023 can become “one of those really great vintages”.

Researchers at the University of Florida have discovered a significant correlation between ChatGPT’s assessment of headlines, and the subsequent daily returns of the stocks studied.

The researchers used ChatGPT to indicate whether a particular headline contained good, bad or irrelevant news for companies› stock prices.  The study shows a positive correlation between ChatGPT’s sentiment analysis, and subsequent daily stock market returns.