How can non-standardised trades be processed, matched and settled in a quick and accurate manner?
How can we have consistent and up-to-date measurements of ESG standards and requirements to better equip asset managers to – visibly and with impact – incorporate ESG considerations in to investment programs and portfolios?
How can we have automate the form-filling process for asset management firms in a more accurate and efficient manner?
How might we better streamline the process to conduct risk assessment of outsourced vendors, to provide a robust platform for internal management of outsourced services while ensuring compliance to outsourcing regulation?
How might we create a smart document parser to streamline and enhance the process of information extraction and analysis for the financial analysts?
How might we more effectively and confidently scan the regulatory environment to identify change and assess its impact, and efficiently manage change to ensure compliance in our businesses across all the jurisdictions we operate in?
How can non-standardised trades be processed, matched and settled in a quick and accurate manner?
How might we automate the production of ESG performance reports using our current data sources, providing compelling and salient reports for our clients?
How might we more efficiently on-board institutional customers, both in Singapore and abroad, so that we can confidently and legally begin to service them?
How can we use technology to better quantify sustainable (ESG) impact of a portfolio?
How might we utilise a gaming platform to build investment knowledge and learn the basic principles of investing for retail investors for better and well-informed investment decisions?
How might portfolio managers make more informed investment decisions by bridging both internal and external data in a structured and unstructured context, with a user-friendly assessment framework?
How might we better streamline the process to conduct risk assessment of outsourced vendors, to provide a robust platform for internal management of outsourced services while ensuring compliance to outsourcing regulation?
How might we improve our internal processes and derive relevant insights, particularly through utilising our data, in order to operate more effectively and efficiently?
How might we use technology in a cost competitive manner so that we can better predict, monitor and manage an Asset Management Company’s internal and external obligations to regulatory changes globally?How might we obtain real-time, customizable updates and analysis on new and revised compliance, regulatory and tax requirements globally?
How might we use collect and capture data electronically and use it as a proxy for economic growth such as sales, inflation and shipping activity?
How could we leverage data from satellite analysis to provide a measure of economic activity (with a focus on emerging countries and Asia) and actionable insights?
How could alternative data (e.g. credit card transactions, hotel/airline billing, digital identity) be used to measure sector performance (e.g. tourism, retail spending)?
Official economic data statistics (especially in emerging countries) may be of poor quality and published late. We use this information in relation to investment decisions.
How might we:
The current practice of information / data gathering is not comprehensive-, smart or intelligent-, or cheap and accessible-enough, which could be due to data owners’ practices.
How could Investment Managers apply AI and Machine Learning to optimize models and to use data to enhance investment decisions and returns?
Rule-based algorithms may be too simplistic, error prone and cannot learn and adapt to market changes.
Given the widespread usage of masking and hacking tools, how might we detect, identify and predict cybercrime (financial or non-financial)?
How could we use technology to optimise the Client Experience and become more effective (e.g. AML processes during client onboarding, refreshers, annual reviews, cross sell and upsell)?
How might we use technology, alternative sources of data and analytics to understand end investors better so that we could design solutions to that will be more suitable and attractive to them?
Investment managers do not have access to end investors directly and associated data and thus have to react to intermediaries’ demand for product or insights which are rarely shared
How might we use technology to distribute our products directly to underserved / unserved end investors and ultimately grow the pool of ready investors across Singapore?
How could we leverage technology to create a cost-effective solution for mass customised client reporting and insights?
There are many different types of reports required by clients across different touch points and relationship models. Reports are often heavily customised & manual and they are specific to the client type (Institutional, Intermediary or even end investors)
How could we use technology to automate, digitize in-house processes to reduce costs, simplify practices and transform experiences for both clients and employees?
Investment managers interact with a number of service providers to execute an order.
How might we provide an engaging and user-friendly education experience for the Investment Management industry, and drive self-learning to create a workforce of the future?
Submission of Problem statements by Acceleration Partners (Problem Owners)
Innovation Thursday for all Solvers (applicants) to attend.
1. Stage A Evaluation Process (Online)
2. Stage B Evaluation Process (Interview)
3. Awarding the selected Finalist(s)
1. Support Finalist(s) to meet the agreed milestones with resources (e.g. domain expertise, site resources).
2. Lend support and understanding to Finalist(s) for IMDA’s extended coaching sessions.
3. Upon successful completion of POC/Prototype, award, selected FInalist(s) the remaining 70% of the prize money. The finalist(s) will be known as winners of your challenge. Potential profiling of challenge with Acceleration Partners (Problem Owners) and Problem Solvers (fintechs) for publicity and awareness.
