The knock-on effects of COVID-19, labour force displacement, geopolitical uncertainties, and shortage of liquidity dominated discussion during 2022. The global healthcare industry is typically considered a recession safe haven, still faced financial strain due to these factors.
The team at Evalueserve, a provider of banking and advisory support services, is back with another iteration of our M&A Outlook Report, covering 10 Major M&A markets, as we move into 2023. M&A activity in 2022 took a drastic downward turn in the second half of 2022 driven by a global economic slowdown fueled by elevated inflation, higher financing costs and geopolitical conflicts.
One of the most prevalent forms of AI is Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP helps computers understand language like humans do.
There is a global sprint towards reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and greenhouse gases (GHG) across industries, in response to decarbonization needs outlined in the Net Zero 2050 goals as a part of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
With AI, you’ll not only have accurate knowledge of market responses to socioeconomic changes but also how you can capitalize on any situation to gain a competitive advantage.
One of the biggest challenges in ESG reporting according to investors is the lack of transparent and consistent data. It is important to understand and distinguish the challenges across the ESG data and insights value chain and then follow a piecemeal approach to address each of them. In this article, we will explore the three levels of the ESG data value chain and address these challenges and how to meet them.
CI is used to track and analyze competitors’ strategies, products, activities, and performance. With the rise of social media, this intelligence can be gathered more quickly and easily than ever before.
In a recent blog post, we explained how business decision-making has changed and why your business must make data-informed decisions. Now,
AI is maturing rapidly and each year, novel applications of AI for business and everyday living are debuted or gain traction.
A Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM) is one of the first documents a buyer receives during the M&A process. It is a descriptive resume of the company curated by the M&A Advisor on the seller’s side.
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are already commonplace in the business world, fueled by the extreme amounts of data now available and
Rare-earth Elements (REE) are not actually rare but are found across the globe in Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Australia. They are referred to as rare only because of the limitations in mining and refining processes.
The issues surrounding plastic waste and its mitigation require continuous focus in a global transition aiming for sustainability under the Net Zero 2050 goals. In recent times, we have noted this focus expanding.
Companies are increasingly leveraging it to remain competitive in the ever-changing business landscape. In fact, 64% of B2B marketers consider AI invaluable in their marketing efforts.
Investment banks have undergone drastic changes during the pandemic and some of those legacies would continue in a post-Covid world. Alexia Fernandez aims to highlight this by explaining how Evalueserve has played a key role by adjusting to its client needs as they move their RSM-related functions online.
Scope 3 emissions constitute the lion’s share of a business’s carbon footprint. Addressing Scope 3 emissions demonstrates a real commitment to the cause of environmental impact reduction. There are several approaches to Scope 3 emission reduction. Companies will usually need to focus on more than one strategy to ensure their attempts are effective.
As ChatGPT takes over social media and gets picked up everywhere, we asked our in-house experts their thoughts on the innovative technology!
The clinical skin care world is constantly changing, adopting new technologies, ingredients, and methodologies to improve their products. Abhishek Adhikary, Senior Analyst at CPG Practice, will guide you through the emerging trends in the clinical skin care market and illustrate to you a few key strategies for this industry.
Our detailed analysis of the Global FIG M&A and Capital Markets landscape captures the probable answer through deep insights on Investors’ behaviour, Recovery of the banking sector, Key M&A themes…
Scope 3 is broadening the concept of environmental impact which includes all the activities a company’s business calls into being, throughout their supply and distribution chains (the “product lifecycle”).
After the global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued the Basel III reforms to its standards to
The days of gut-feeling business decisions are over. Companies are increasingly looking to analytics-based decision-making.
In our detailed Q3 review of the global investment banking industry, we have discussed the M&A, ECM, and DCM markets, along with the performance of bulge bracket investment banks and M&A advisory firms.
How Private Equity bracing for slowdown next year. Read more in our latest blog to find out.
Metaverse popularity is huge, and an industry like beauty, rooted in sensory experiences, has decided driving innovation in the metaverse. Namrata Sain’s blog will look at the three complementary but very different ways in which beauty brands can have a piece of the phenomenal potential of this new virtual world.
Food Industry is focusing on sustainable products. The search is on for low-CO2 alternatives like precision fermentation of proteins. Learn more about this new development in the consumer products industry in Deeptanshu Dey’s blog, Consultant at CPG Practice.
Deal activity across the global healthcare industry remained low, a stark contrast to the economic buoyancy witnessed during the same period last year. Investors continued to adopt a cautious approach amid the uncertainties related to global growth outlook…
Global O&G M&A activity slightly decreased in Q3 2022 amid indication of current global slowdown; however, North American M&A activity is up. Current geopolitical tensions and energy security is impacting the oil and gas sector majorly.
Despite low volumes, rising costs, supply chain interruptions, and lowered guidance in Q3 2022, the North American consumer and retail sector has continued to see modest growth, albeit at a considerably slower rate than in 2021…
Understanding your position in this ecosystem – and accurately calculating your market share – is crucial to intelligently defining the forward trajectory of your business.
The following four articles detail some implementation best practices, how domain-specific AI can help your company identify opportunities and even leapfrog the competition, and use domain-specific AI as a knowledge management tool. Enjoy the following articles.
Every few weeks we’ll interview employees. Meet Anuj Bhardwaj, Director at IP and R&D Solutions, being with Evalueserve already for 14 years. Get an insight to his journey and to his day-to-day with us and how he sees the paralegal services industry transform.
In 2022, the prevalent geopolitical conditions and macroeconomic uncertainties caused a decline in broader market performance in general and the tech stocks declined to a high level, due to which sector experienced a downtrend in M&A and listing activity.
The risks to the M&A outlook for Asia Pacific markets are overwhelmingly tilted to the downside as rising prices continue to impact growth prospects worldwide. While taming inflation remains the top priority for policymakers, tighter monetary policies will inevitably have real economic costs.
The team at Evalueserve, a provider of banking and advisory support services, has undertaken research for the Over-the-Top (OTT) market globally and in India, covering Major Players and prominent modes of OTT streaming. The pandemic period has been a revelation for the industry with the market experiencing unprecedented increase in Market Size.
New sustainability conventions and changing consumer needs drives companies to developing safer and eco-friendly products. Learn how to identify safe ingredients for your product safety strategy.
Supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have led to the highest-ever inflation in decades in many major countries. It has since emerged as a serious concern in investor markets, including real estate.
The Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Area has gained traction in recent years. A majority of big pharma has CGT assets in their pipeline. While it has a strong pipeline, the area witnessed a continued flow of investment. In our latest industry report on Cell and Gene Therapy Sector Performance and Outlook, we discuss how and why we believe that the CGT area has a lot to offer and except to see continued growth.
Building a healthy pipeline that can withstand changing economic conditions is the dream of every partner at consulting and advisory firms. Whether you’re looking for new strategy consulting opportunities, M&A advisory, or restructuring prospects, you need a continuous pipeline development effort.
In order to curb the growing influence of index providers on global asset market, the US SEC is tightening regulations on index players. Bhashkar Upadhyay in this research piece aims to examine the role of new regulations that would govern the producers of financial indices, challenges and concerns in implementing them, and their impact on the industry in general.
The global financial services market continued its frenetic pace of M&A and capital market activity at the start of 2022, keeping pace with a record-breaking 2021. However, it must be noted that the deal volume in 2021 did not yield an easy number that could be effortlessly replicated.
The Pet Food Industry is nowadays influenced by human food trends. Several studies show that healthy eating pet owners rethinking food options for pets. Learn how this trend impacts the Pet Food manufacturers.
The year 2021 witnessed a renewed interest in liquid alternatives (alts.), and 2022 continues to see a strong inflow of funds. The primary reasons driving this inflow are volatile equity market returns, weakening policy support, higher interest rates and inflation, market volatility, and geopolitical turmoil, as they forced investors to critically think about portfolio construction and seek strategy changes.
The first half of 2022 saw ~USD 2.2 trillion of M&A deals being announced, ~21% lower than the same period last year and the slowest opening six months for M&A in two years. Technology, financials, and industrials accounted for almost half the total deal value in the first half of 2022.
In some skeptical quarters, the notion of eating insects has almost become the punchline of a joke. Indeed, insects are more
The team at Evalueserve, a provider of banking and advisory support services, is back with another iteration of our M&A Recovery Report, covering 10 Major M&A markets, as we move through 2022. M&A recovery in 2022 took a drastic downward turn from the blockbuster start witnessed in the previous quarter on the back of growing concerns of a global economic slowdown.
On December 8, 2020, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published the Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management for Insurers. These guidelines are aimed at improving the management of environmental risks by all insurers, in line with the expectations of the MAS.
These guidelines are aimed at improving the management of environmental risks by all banks, merchant banks, and finance companies, in line with the expectations of the MA
Deal making in the global healthcare industry has been relatively slow in 2022, compared with a blockbuster 2021. Investors were primarily forced to hold off on deal making because of the uncertainty regarding the global growth outlook.
In this spotlight, we sat down with Evalueserve’s Group Manager of the CPG Excellence Team, Himanshu Sharma and got the scoop on her professional journey, and the CPG industry.
As a business, it’s important to keep track of your competition. What are they doing that is working well? What tactics are they using that you could learn from? Competitive Intelligence tracking is the process of monitoring and assessing your competition to gain a strategic advantage.
It is imperative for any business to look at and review what key companies and innovators in their space are doing. This outlook is essential as it provides the direction that the others are treading for their future roadmap and the business can decide the direction it wants to take.
The 2021 Climate Risk Management Guideline was published by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in July 2021.
Banking authorities strive to ensure strong risk management practices, including the detection, disclosure, and management of risks emanating from climate change. These practices are critical to boosting banks’ resilience to climate-related events and risks.
On December 8, 2020, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published the Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management for Asset Managers. These guidelines are aimed at improving the management of environmental risks by fund management companies and real estate
A competitive audit or competitor audit is an essential part of competitive intelligence. It involves a complete assessment of your competition through notes of their products, branding, content, features, and benefits.
The Middle East banking industry has been witnessing knock-on effects of the pandemic, volatile oil prices, and intensifying multi-dimensional disruptions. However, it has been able to withstand these pressures and bounce back strongly.
Get to know Alex Bell, Associate Director in Chemical Safety and Regulatory Affairs. Learn what brought him to Evalueserve and how he perceives today’s product safety industry.
The COVID-19 crisis has taken various forms across the world and presented remarkable differences in performance within different industries. Some sectors that are dependent on human interaction, such as the cultural and creative industries have experienced substantial hits and were expected to take longer to recover.
Cryptocurrencies have seen massive adoption and have become one of the hottest investment products for investors and asset managers alike. This increased uptake has been driven by its growth potential that it has demonstrated over the years.
The IP and R&D Spotlight Interview series continues. Get to know Simon Carr, Vice President of CPG Practice at Evalueserve. Read his assessment of the CPG market and how the market should evolve in a fast-changing environment.
Identifying your competition is the first step to understanding your competition – this can help you avoid pitfalls and provide you with advantages that can make your stand tall above the others.
In a rapidly changing business landscape, it’s more important than ever to have a comprehensive and effective competitive intelligence program. But
As market headwinds pick up speed in the post-Covid phase, bankers and analysts at boutique advisory firms are busy in keeping the ball rolling under high volume of M&A deals. With the increasing volume of deals, many bankers are spending a lot of time on unstructured data of private companies, one of them being franchise companies.
The biggest challenge for investment bankers is speeding up turnaround time while working on detailed and informative pitchbook presentations. Investment banking clients of Evalueserve can take use of a full range of presentation design services, including the templates and layouts creation, formatting support, and the pitchbook support using our in-house bankers’ productivity suite – Pitchready.
Launching any product in a new market can be challenging. Each country has their own regulatory process to which companies have to comply. Pesticides are one of the regulated products in Canada, the Evalueserve Chemical Safety and Regulatory Affairs team walks you through the regulation process of registering pesticides in Canada.
As per financial data provider Preqin, dry powder of the buyout industry stood at $873 billion as of June 1, 2022. Overall it estimates that the investment industry reported $1.86 trillion of dry powder (up 3% from the end of 2021), excluding venture capital. Through the end of May 2022, Preqin said that firms have raised $92 billion and the total is projected to increase to $221 billion by year end.
As a result of global economic meltdown of 2007-2008, the US Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, targeting banks and mortgage lenders among other financial institutions for stringent regulations.
The use of machine learning (ML) models by financial institutions has grown steadily in recent years given their enhanced capabilities and widespread potential application. However, building, adopting, and regulating machine learning models remains a challenge.
A critical need of the hour towards the goal of sustainability, is better recycling, particularly in higher plastic consumption sectors, including consumer packaged goods (CPG). While a large quantum of post-consumer plastics ends up in landfills or leaking into the environment, the ones that do make it to waste collection and recovery facilities do not always end up recycled and reused.
Why is Smart Charging a game changer for the electric vehicles market? Priyesh Sinha, AVP for Automotive and Industrial Machines in the IP and R&D Solutions department, explains the technology developments and benefits of this new technology.
Procurement Intelligence is a method for deriving business value from procurement data.
With the help of an Early Warning Indicators (EWI) system, banks could effectively monitor their lending portfolios and could execute timely and appropriate actions to mitigate any upcoming risk.
We recently hosted an Investment Banking Executive Event in New York where senior leaders at top banks discussed Investment Banking trends such as the roles of AI, CRM, and Data Science in junior banker retention.
ESG-focused asset management (AM) firms are facing increased regulatory pressure and scrutiny to prioritize and tackle “greenwashing”. The term greenwashing is generally used to represent the practice of identifying a business as more ‘sustainable,’ ‘green,’ ‘low-carbon,’ and ‘planet-friendly,’ when, in truth, an entity may be either creating a false impression.
An agile approach to business strategy is not just about velocity to adapt to evolving market needs but also, how efficiently to out-innovate the competition. Business leaders are constantly facing new market challenges, many of which are known while others unknown. It is becoming increasing important to continuously observe the market signals and respond timely for mitigating the risks and ensuring business growth sustainability.
With more novel drugs being launched and approved, pharmaceutical new product launch strategies need to evolve.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the healthcare ecosystem and engagement for launch effectiveness more complex owing to the evolving needs of pharma stakeholders.
The upcoming India REACH legislation impacts manufacturers and importers placing chemicals in India. They must comply to the new chemical safety law. Do you know how the new regulation will impact your business? Get a brief overview and learn how to comply with the new rules.
Understanding competitor motivations and behaviors help shape product development, pricing, brand positioning, and more. The key is to identify challenges, advantages, and white spaces to build a strategy that creates competitive differentiation.
In this article, Shobhit Saxena, Associate Vice President, Products, shares some of the common challenges faced by business teams/ proposals managers and how Artificial Intelligence-driven technology solutions can help deliver high-quality proposals, increase efficiency, and save manhours.
It’s unsurprising that a “perfect storm” of catastrophe has had a significant impact on corporate profits and service continuity. How then should businesses change and adapt their procurement and supply chain processes to better future-proof their operations?
Everyone that works closely with sales has seen, or at least heard of, battlecards. You’ve probably stumbled along the way and made a few glaring mistakes that you caught. But what are the mistakes you haven’t caught?
AI can be found throughout clinics and hospitals working alongside doctors, nurses, and specialists. Automated systems help flag risk factors, identify likely conditions, and assist medical professionals with other vital forms of diagnoses and treatment. Our resident brand journalist Leah Moore spoke to our in-house AI expert Cathy Feng to learn more about the state of AI in the medical field.
Do you understand what makes a good patent application? Is it only about understanding the invention, and writing the claim-set and description in structured language? Learn key facets to be considered to draft a valuable patent application in Atish Gupta’s latest blog.
There are several model risk management tools available that automate manual processes to help MRM teams keep up with overwhelming demand.
Moving from tactical to strategic competitor benchmarking for improved outcomes. Learn more about Evalueserve’s Anticipate the Competitor framework for streamlined strategic competitor benchmarking.
Plastic has been an efficient material in the sales, transport protection, and modularity of consumer packaged goods (CPG). CPG companies are among the top plastic consumers and will hence be instrumental in reversing the material’s impact on the environment and, subsequently, the climate.
The great recession of 2008 resulted in countless new financial regulations. Many of them are still top of mind for banks today as they continue to navigate implementation and reporting.
We are already seeing serious implications from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine; the refugee crisis in Europe; a looming global food crisis; the risk of further military escalation […]
A competitive win/loss analysis is a thorough discovery process that enables companies to dive deep into their customers’ motivations and objections. It reveals the true reasons behind a purchase, or behind the decision not to buy something.
Learn about the fast-changing requirements in chemical safety, toxicology and regulatory space and how we can help companies to quickly adapt.
Leah Moore, one of our brand journalists in the marketing department, sat down with in-house AI expert Cathy Feng to discuss
Consumer goods start-ups operate in a fast-paced environment that is undergoing intensive shifts in response to the digital and sustainable transitions.
A recommendation engine uses algorithms to predict a user’s choice and then offer suggestions to the user, helping them find the thing that may interest them the most.
A comprehensive and successful competitive intelligence program needs to achieve 5 different components to provide the highest value.
We’ve been reading up on all the good AI and data science articles on Medium and decided to highlight several of
Hydrogen is a key contributor in moving towards a future powered by clean energy. We put together a round-up for you of our published content featuring this topic.
One way to lessen the burden on the competitive intelligence team and increase their efficiency is through artificial intelligence. Companies can pair AI with human intelligence to improve their CI efforts.
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) have taken off in popularity among younger generations. But just how toxic are they?
Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is soaring. AI funding has multiplied in recent years, it’s becoming more central to software platforms
A company’s patent portfolio is a crucial asset, with its value dependent on strategic decisions made by portfolio managers. These portfolios house proprietary innovations, setting companies apart from competitors. They offer potential revenue through out-licensing and mitigate litigation risks and unnecessary costs. Building a solid patent portfolio requires foresight, identifying key technologies, and filing continuation patent applications.
We are attending IPBC Europe 2022 with our new partners, Patsnap. Continue reading this blog, for live updates from the event here.
All departments and stakeholders need to integrate competitive intelligence into their remit, including market research, product development, C-suite, sales, marketing, procurement, fulfillment, and more.
Asset and wealth management firms outsource processes such as research, sales, and marketing to improve their functioning and gain cost efficiency.
Model validation is key to assessing reliability and identifying errors and corrective actions, but high-quality validation is increasingly difficult to achieve.
Price-setting used to be an art, a skill derived from years of industry experience, intuition and hard-bought competitive business intelligence. In 2022, it has become a science.
Combining the experience of our 400+ global IP experts, we have been able to fine-tune our AI capabilities to create the most advanced patent searching method in existence today. Evalueserve expects to have Searchstream ready for public use in the spring of 2022.
Businesses are facing immense pressure to do more, and do it faster, across all industries. More organizations are focusing on improving
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine situation has created a dynamic scenario in which index providers must consider all the aspects impacted in index management and respond accordingly.
In its recent meeting, the Fed signaled an end to its accommodative monetary policy in what could be the first hike in Federal fund rates since September 2018 after cutting it by 1.5 percentage points to 0.25% at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Competitive intelligence is a critical factor in the decision-making process for businesses. When assessing competitive intelligence insights, competitors’ sales, strategies, and market share are what come to mind. However, one of the least talked about, but often used insights by industry-leading companies across the world is intellectual property landscape data.
A sound model risk management framework is imperative to avoid the costly consequences of misused or flawed models. Strong model governance is the key to achieving effective model risk management.
To establish a level of success for a particular marketing intelligence strategy, market leaders need to look at the market insights that those strategies provide.
Business leaders have been forced to rejig their portfolio strategy, revamp office operations – work from home, hybrid, or flexible work set-up – and chart out diversified investment plans.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated procurement team’s day-to-day work, putting emphasis on the requirement of modernization and transformation in supply chains. Using
AI is the buzzword of the decade, and industry experts including markets are leveraging it to transform decisions into results. In this blog, we discuss how you can use AI to achieve your marketing goals with our guest Paul Roetzer.
Leveraging the power of enhanced AI and a team of global IP experts, we’ve developed Insightloupe to house and manage all your company’s past, present, and future patent projects. With the ability to efficiently analyze the data, Insightloupe’s patent analytics enhance your business intelligence across the following areas.
EdTech is one of the fastest-growing sectors globally, with skills development solutions receiving the highest funding in 2020.
We’ve broken down the kind of data you might source into seven thematic strands. Each of these subjects presents unique insights that your content creation teams can use.
While models are invaluable decision-making tools for financial firms, there is significant risk associated with the incorrect use of models or model malfunction. Decisions based on flawed or misused models can have dire consequences and be extremely costly.