In a market of Goliaths able to justify huge spend on enterprise management how are the numerous small capital management houses to meet regulatory pressures whilst remaining cost efficient?

Recent economic conditions have put pressure on margins in many classes of financial instruments. On the other hand, the number of market participants is increasing and there are more intermediates, many of them mall- and medium-sized financial enterprises. To sustain and share reasonable margins increasingly complex deal types with shorter and shorter time-to-market cycles are being developed. These need to be integrated into structured risk control systems, and incorporate transaction processes to transfer risk, all in compliance with the constant evolution of regulatory needs. One of the areas of key interest is the current regulatory discussion on introducing requirements to view any risk decision in the context of a company’s entire portfolio: Quantitative Enterprise Management.

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