Insights into why market conditions are driving asset managers and asset owners to consider outsourced solutions for their currency management needs.

Outsourcing is no longer taboo, according to Linedata’s Anup Kumar.

Nearly a third of investment firms are looking into outsourcing opportunities for their middle office operations, hoping to free up cash and human resource by removing the need to build and maintain internal teams to compete in the ESG, crypto and private debt markets or invest in introducing new systems.

As regulatory demands proliferate, fund and asset managers are finding that reporting on everything from sustainability to technical standards is a growing burden on their time and resources. Legal firm Zeidler Group believes digital services are the solution.