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Compressed margins and fear of disruption by tech giants is driving asset managers to search for new ways to raise revenue, reduce costs, and develop new funds and products. But these trends also imply a significant amount of unpredictability and operational turmoil that some managers’ IT teams are unprepared for. Pressures on asset managers are b...
04 April 2019
More and more financial institutions are driving value by collaborating with Fintechs, usually by leveraging open APIs. This strategy is in direct contrast to the way in which banks have traditionally managed their businesses, which is to directly own technology resources and keep everything firmly closed. Increasingly being referred to as the pla...
29 March 2019 /devops
Damien Cabadi Chief Financial Officer at Spirit Asset Management
After several years of fruitless siege, Greeks hid their best warriors in a giant wooden horse and left Troy. The Trojans brought the statue in the city to celebrate their victory. But after a night of celebration, the Greeks jumped out from the wooden horse and opened the city gates to the rest of the Greek army. Is history condemned to repeat it...
29 March 2019 /startups
Earlier this month our team attended the InvestOps USA 2019 conference just outside of Tampa, Florida. COOs, CTOs and other operations professionals converged to discuss current trends shaping the industry. Presentations covered an array of topics, including: Challenges being navigated among Investment Operations Teams Best practices being deploye...
28 March 2019
Introduction The enterprises in the 21st century have been drawn into the data endearing ecosystem that is currently present today. With the formula of more data, more success gaining popularity amongst several decision makers, it is highly evident that enterprises are focussed on quality customer intelligence, which they can integrate into their s...
27 March 2019 /ai
Tautvydas Medziukevicius Legal Counsel at Swiipe
The Payment Services Directive (PSD2), introduces new rules on how the payment services are going to be governed. Strong Consumer Authentication (SCA) implements new standards where (Article 97) the payer: (a) accesses its payment account online; (b) initiates an electronic payment transaction; (c) carries out any action through a remote channel w...
26 March 2019 /payments
Sometimes, signs of a broader conceptual technology challenge show up unexpectedly in a very neat, concise package. That was the case this past month when a pair of news items—seemingly contradictory in nature—popped up regarding the implementation of blockchain in the foreign exchange (FX) market, in particular, a massive project within the bank-...
26 March 2019
Global financial institutions are experimenting with an essential new C-level position—the Chief Control Officer—to ensure that organisational lines of defence are effective in fostering internal compliance, accountability, and transparency. But without the right data, they may still be feeling around in the dark. Oversight and supervision of non-...
19 March 2019
Domile And Sustainable Finance, Impact Investing at Cyan Reef
The world has become more comfortable with the faster pace of financial innovation, with institutions using data analytics more extensively, digitising processes and customers prioritising these advantages over traditional services. There are many examples of innovative ideas transferred into billion-dollar companies in US with examples such as St...
Fintech has been taking over the financial market by storm, and it doesn’t look like its progress is going to slow down anytime soon. There are many benefits to be realized in the new range of technologies, and some of them are not immediately obvious, even to people who’ve been involved with the market for a long time. The loan industry has been ...
11 March 2019 /inclusion
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