Our flagship competitive intelligence product, Competitor Analytics, sets the standard within the investment banking and financial services sector for performance and efficiency measurement across Equities Sales & Trading, FICC Sales & Trading, Origination, Advisory, Transaction Banking, Lending, Securities Services and Wealth Management.

Competitor Analytics equip and enable our clients to understand their competitive landscape and make informed strategic decisions. The analytics cover:

Our Competitor Analytics product includes

Revenues

Performance Benchmarking

• Named, quarterly analysis of revenues, headcount and productivity
• Like-for-like benchmarking of performance through accounting/organisation adjustments
• Output customisation to reflect each Bank’s business model and product taxonomy
• Intelligence across all regions and products, highlighting outperformance and underperformance
• Bespoke deep dive projects with granular insight into a product and/or country

Organizational Insight

• Market trends and strategic insight related to business structure and client franchise
• Business structures including reporting hierarchies and coverage models
• Identification of executive management and business heads

Resources

Model Assessment

• Comparison of RWA requirements for VaR, S-VaR, CVA, and IRC
• Comparison of RWA requirements for counterparty credit
• Identification of executive management and business heads
  

Risk Assessment

• Benchmarking of actual RWA by business
• Benchmarking of normalized RWA by business
  

Productivity Assessment

• Revenues / normalised RWA, i.e. how much revenue generated per unit of risk taken

Benefits

Benchmark Performance

• Against named peers
• On a quarterly basis matching strategy, planning and compensation cycles
• On a like-for-like basis and to a Bank’s own business structure
  

Size the Leads and Gaps

• Revenue opportunities / threats by business
• Revenue opportunities / threats by region
• Productivity outperformance / underperformance
  

Support Budget / Resource Planning

• Resource budget planning by business and by region
• Headcount allocation to optimise resources
• Compensation analysis by business and by region