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I can’t agree more with Hilary Ward from Citi. In her recent article on GTNews, Hilary talks about the benefits of automating the process around on-boarding and bank account management, between corpo...
With contracting assets under management, fund management firms, fund managers and hedge funds alike have been quick to extend performance fee schedules and introduce innovative, complex products to
The internal operational challenge surrounding OTC derivatives remains an area that individual firms have to take responsibility for. In early 2008 we were obsessed about volume, bottlenecks and effic...
65 per cent of firms reference adequacy of existing system as major OTC operational issue As the dust settles on the central counterparty debate the spotlight returns to the internal issue of oper...
Improving post-trade processing capabilities is imperative when more than 50 per cent of a client’s workload can be spent dealing with terminations, novations and amendments – let alone getting in pla...
In an FT article a few days back, Jay Hooley of State Street raised some concerns around the impact of OTC volumes on legacy systems. In my experience many firms today have developed limited capabil...
Its normal practice for financial services firms to immediately cut costs and budgets when a financial crisis hits. In my time working in banking I can remember on many occasions when some form of cri...