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RBC Elements provides digital analytics and trading tools to help institutional clients access market insights and execute investment decisions efficiently.

Digital, data and AI driving high-conviction investment ideas

RBC Elements™️ empowers our Global Research team to provide differentiated insights, advice and solutions for our clients

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Quantify the Previously Unquantifiable

Follow today's global markets through an alternative data lens to drive high-value investment ideas.

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RBC Elements processes billions of unique, real-time datapoints to assist our clients in their investment process.

Insights

Augments fundamental research by leveraging differentiated forms of data, ranging from geospatial intelligence to social and digital trends, to provide differentiated insights.

Advice

RBC Elements is a core component of our Digital Solutions and Client Insights (DSCi3) innovation team – part of a suite of multi-asset solutions that unifies data, digital and AI to provide clients with a path to outperformance.

Solutions

Delivers innovative, data driven intelligence across global markets from broad macro views to sector specific themes, we offer a proprietary built offering, alongside solutions co-developed with our clients.

Enhancing the client experience

Enabled by our investments in technology and talent, we believe our innovative differentiated advice, products and services deliver long-term value and create exceptional client experiences.

Derek Neldner

CEO and Group Head, RBC Capital Markets

Research powered by RBC Elements

RBC Elements augments traditional research with alternative data sets to provide differentiated solutions for our clients.

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Insights\ \ Digital Intelligence Strategy: Quantifying the Path of Credit Card Delinquencies \ \ While buoyant markets are perceptions of reality, consumer delinquencies are unmistaken reflections of reality.\ \ 5 min read

Podcast\ \ The Race is on to Provide 32 Million EV Charge Points \ \ The electric vehicle charging network in the U.S. has a long road to travel between now and 2030, according to RBC clean energy analyst, Chris Dendrinos. In the latest episode of...\ \ \ \ 16 min listen

Insights\ \ Tracking the rise of AI/ML vs. BPO via Job Postings \ \ Big data analysis to provide insight into hiring trends in the IT services sector \ \ 7 min read

Insights\ \ Insights from the BioWeb \ \ Explore the predictive potential of website traffic analysis to uncover underappreciated biopharma market trends.\ \ 5 min read

Insights\ \ Gucci SKU analysis \ \ Identifying changes and progress in Gucci’s merchandising, pricing, SKU breadth and depth and productivity, relative to its own history and to peer. \ \ 5 min read

Insights\ \ Digital Intelligence Strategy: US Gas Station Visits Tracker \ \ Leverage real-time geospatial intelligence by tracking connective vehicle visits to 135,000 US gas stations as a proxy for gasoline demand. \ \ 3 min read

Insights\ \ Big Data Behind Big Builders \ \ Get real-time intelligence into demand and potential margin dynamics in the homebuilders and building sector.\ \ 7 min read

Insights\ \ Home-Fi \ \ Detailed picture of a housebuilder's trading performance, and identification of turning points in the housing market by tracking the individual homes. \ \ 3 min read

Insights\ \ Fertilizer Outlook 2024 \ \ Geospatial analysis of Russian and Belarusian potash fertilizer exports suggests ongoing global supply constraints due to the impact of the Russia/Ukraine war. \ \ 5 min read

Insights\ \ Canadian Banks \ \ Uncover how OFSI balance sheet data reveals slightly slower growth in Canada P&C loans.\ \ 5 min read

Insights\ \ UK Banks \ \ Discover the potential for UK Banks to become an instrument of change in facilitating the energy transition. \ \ 7 min read

Podcast\ \ Digital Intelligence Strategy Platform: A New Wave of Investor Insight \ \ Michael Tran, Head of Digital Research & Digital Intelligence Strategy discusses nowcasting with alternative data, accessing market inflection points, and the future of DIS. \ \ 20 min listen

Next-Gen Applications

Obtain “real-time" powerful data driven insights through our interactive next-gen applications.

Access all of the RBC Elements Next-Gen Applications here

DIS Connected Vehicle x Gas Station Visits Tracker

Western Australian Gold Web Application

Big Data Behind Big Builders


RBC Elements product evolution

RBC Elements has been redefining its capabilities and ushering in an era of AI-powered insight.

2018: RBC Elements launched

  • Formation of data science team embedded within Global Research.
  • First RBC Elements branded research note published, and featured in Bloomberg

2019: Research roll-out

  • Quick adoption within Research with publication of 70+ Elements-branded research notes

2020: Real time analytics in uncertain times

  • RBC Elements shifts from a focus on forecasting the future to analyzing market events in real-time, raising conviction through nowcasting
  • Proprietary analysis such as “RBC Sheds Light on Chinas Rebound After Coronavirus” also featured in WSJ

2021: RBC Elements diversifies product suite

  • Digital Intelligence Strategy (DIS), a thematic macro research product centered on ‘nowcasting’ trends from structured & unstructured datasets, established
  • Launch of Next-gen applications, a new interactive web based channel that allows that allows the ability to directly interact with the data and models behind some of our key RBC Elements Research products

2022: RBC Elements scales and forays beyond research

  • RBC Elements starts to process over 7.5 billion unique, real-time datapoints to assist research, and our clients in their investment process
  • New Capital Markets solutions Beyond Research
    • Launch of the QIS Commodity Sentiment Strategy, a Machine Learning model that provides trading signals using social media data

2023: New business onboarding

  • Expansion of Capital Markets solutions Beyond Research
  • Launch of Central Bank AI Sight™, an AI powered sentiment analysis tool, trained to decipher cues from Central Bank communications
  • RBC Elements embeds within Global Investment Banking

2024: Continued product growth & data solutions

  • Approaching 1000 RBC Elements research publications and 15 Next-Gen Applications live on RBC Insight
  • Continuous development of strategy and proprietary products housed under the RBC Elements™ brand

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