From Manual Tasks to AI—A Market In Transition
Catherine Duggan, Oct 2024 – 1 min read 
A great conference with an attendance of over 6000 people, up 15% from last year. It was a great way to celebrate the Invisso 30-year anniversary!
Market Outlook
The market shows positive trends across all asset classes as we move from 2024 into 2025. Investors are turning to esoteric and emerging assets in search of higher yields. ABS prices remain lower than corporate rates, creating new opportunities. Interest rates look stable or trending down into 2025, though there remains inflationary pressure. Private credit keeps growing as a market driver, thanks to fewer regulations and capital requirements.
Tech Outlook
On the tech side, we had great discussions with a number of market participants. A continued and consistent problem across all asset classes is that manual tasks take up an inordinate amount of time from key individuals, so we are focusing on working with our customers to optimize their tech spend on leveraging tech to solve this.
The term “data graveyard” is also starting to make an appearance. We had many conversations about how to unlock the value of all their historical information—whether it’s deals they have done or just looked at and considered—it’s now about bringing all this data together into a centralized dataset so that all this data can work together and inform better decision-making. This also needs to happen in order for AI to come into play effectively.
On the topic of AI, the main takeaways from our conversations were two-fold: (1) the whole topic can be quite overwhelming and it’s easy to run away with ideas, and (2) whilst the adoption of AI tools is on the rise at the individual level, how to roll out tools that people can trust at the enterprise level is harder. This validated our current approach to working with AI tools with our clients which is centered around starting with a clear, simple use case rather than trying to eat the elephant.
