Gary Linieres CEO & Co-founder at Wealth Dynamix
In January, when I asked the Wealth Dynamix leadership team to pick one piece of advice they would offer to a wealth manager looking to achieve differentiation in 2020, we had no idea that within weeks our world would be turned upside down by a pandemic as voracious as COVID-19. In hindsight, the quote I referenced at that time from Jim Marous, Ed...
14 May 2020 /wealth /markets Trends in Financial Services
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Given the extreme market volatility and disruptions to the economy caused by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, asset managers using factor-based investment strategies have seen their risk exposures shift in unexpected ways. At the same time, factor investing has grown as an approach to screening stocks based on the attributes that drive risk and...
14 May 2020 /regulation /markets Hedge Fund Technology
Bhupendra Choudhary Business Head at FieldCircle
The harsh COVID-19 impact is very much visible on a global scale. The pandemic has changed how we work for the foreseeable future, and the field services industry is no exception. In-spite of “appliance services” being classified under “essential services”, service contractors may not want their technicians to visit service locations to offer serv...
05 May 2020 /markets /covid-19
Roel Jansen SaaS Solutions Marketing at Temenos
Banks and fintechs have been in competition for some time, as the fintech industry flourishes, banks increasingly fear losing out. However, the constant comparison between the two highlights that they have opposing strengths – both as important as the other, that could be utilised to benefit each party. Contrasting strengths of banks and fintech...
05 May 2020 /retail /markets Fintech
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
Shareholding disclosure, the requirement to report holdings in publicly traded companies to regulatory agencies, has been a regulatory obligation for decades. But like most regulatory obligations, firms try to manage the burden with manpower first. So, between OMS reports and excel spreadsheets, compliance officers try their best to determine what...
04 May 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Nicky Tozer Vice President of EMEA at Oracle NetSuite
Businesses are under a lot of pressure. Many have temporarily shut up shop or found new ways of working, while the government steps in to offer support. Business leaders are juggling changing priorities while seeking to protect employees, respond to risks, and prepare for the long term. Against this backdrop of changing economic and operating cond...
30 April 2020 /markets /covid-19
Anne Plested Regulation at ION Markets
The Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) recently advised ESMA to promote wider adoption of the Market Model Typology (MMT) post-trade data standards. The SMSG, which facilitates consultation between ESMA, its Board of Supervisors, and stakeholders, is encouraging a wider use of MMT to address MiFIR transparency. The MMT initiative is ...
29 April 2020 /regulation /markets MiFID
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
While the COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant threat to mainstream industry and commerce, it will be even more devastating to Small-to-Medium Enterprises (‘SMEs’), as a large number may not survive the economic impact of the crisis. This issue affects SME activity worldwide, however it is especially pronounced in emerging markets, where access t...
28 April 2020 /markets /covid-19 Trends in Financial Services
Retired Member
Around this time last week, one of the main global-oil-price benchmarks, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) exchange-traded future, traded below zero as the contract for May settlement approached expiry on Monday. This meant that sellers of the contract on that final day of trading were being forced into paying buyers to offload their positions, ra...
28 April 2020 /regulation /markets Capital Markets Technology
Saurabha Sahu Senior Solution Consultant at Wipro Limited
Humans are ready to spend a skyrocketing cost for their own health or even towards the near and dears. Today the Healthcare industry is plagued by exponentially rising the cost of hospitals, insufficient practices as well as breaching the patient data or records. These expensive problems are impelling towards an innovative, immutable solution. Re
27 April 2020 /crypto /markets Blockchain Observations
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