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