Data protection

Following a year marked by the pandemic, the resilience of our value chains and an acceleration in our businesses’ digital transformation, there are numerous prospects for asset management and the custodian profession in 2021. Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has a solution offer and a Data access environment providing an extensive range of services...

Responsible investment, although highly acclaimed by investors, reveals the signs of a growth crisis, linked to major transformation problems.

The surge in the need for market data over the past 10 years now requires players in the financial sector to more fully determine their requirements and improve their knowledge of the constraints of data providers in terms of distribution and user rights in order to optimise their costs.

A strategy to get out of an absurd situation

Asset managers are turning to the securities services industry to help them comply with transparency regulations. Providers must invest in innovation to deliver smarter services at a lower cost.

Whereas the success or failure of conventional investments is generally measured on the basis of financial performance indicators such as Alpha, Beta and Sharpe ratio, sustainable investments promise two types of performance: not only do they aim to generate a competitive return that is as good as that of their conventional counterparts, but they also aim to...

The custody market is becoming highly commoditised and increasingly saturated, making the entire sector vulnerable to disruption and potential consolidation. Only providers endowed with the best technology infrastructure and cutting edge data are likely to emerge the winners.

Over recent years, we’ve experienced mounting pressure over ESG integration from stakeholders; and whereas the reasons behind this might vary (i.e. fiduciary duty, regulation, alignment of values...), most of them acknowledge that financial performance/alpha generation should remain part of the equation.