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We Might Need to Reconcile June 16 2017 Blog Jay Wolstenholme
Just got back from the FTF Sec Ops Conference in Boston. Front-to-back asset management workflow was the main focus of the conference with some o…
Liquidity and Collateral: Getting the Blood to Flow Again June 13 2017 Blog Josephine de Chazournes
Cash is a dirty word for some cultures, but not for financial services, on the contrary. But I am not talking about the old images of the stingy…
Data & Analytics: Are you making progress? June 05 2017 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
What are CIOs' Major Initiatives for 2020? What are the Key Technologies that are impacting CTOs' 2018 plans? How are cutting-edge technologies b…
Robots Offer Helping Hand to Fraud Investigators May 22 2017 Blog Joan McGowan
Banks continue to be plagued by extremely high false positives. (They report anywhere between 75% and 90% false positive rates across their fraud…
Should Asset Managers Pay for Shelf Space? May 09 2017 Blog Kelley Byrnes
Last week a wealth management firm announced it would stop selling Vanguard mutual funds, though clients of the firm can still add money to exis…
Exploring "Real World Fintech" at the Temenos Community Forum ("TCF") 2017 May 08 2017 Blog Ashley Globerman
I had the honor of attending this year’s Temenos Community Forum (“TCF”) where the theme was “Real World Fintech”. Throughout the event, we “exp…
The Surging Appetite for Cloud-Based Services May 02 2017 Blog David Easthope
I recently wrote an article for Capital Markets CIO Outlook that incorporates my thinking on the transition from one architecture to another in…
Re-tweets, Re-posts and Likes are Subject to FINRA’s Digital Communication Rules May 02 2017 Blog Kelley Byrnes
FINRA recently released their third regulatory notice around social media and digital communications. The notice “provides guidance regarding th…
The DoL Fiduciary Rule: A State of Confusion May 01 2017 Blog Kelley Byrnes
A month ago, on April 4, 2017, less than a week prior to the scheduled implementation date for the first phase of Department of Labor (DoL) Fidu…
SECURITIES SETTLEMENT REVOLUTION: THE SECOND CHAPTER April 26 2017 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
(Source: Wikipedia, Tokyo Stock Exchange) The second chapter in the securities settlement revolution is the shortening of the equities settlem…
Securities Settlement Revolution April 26 2017 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
This series of reports on the so-called “securities settlement revolution” will focus on key trends and changes in Japan‘s securities settlement…
SECURITIES SETTLEMENT REVOLUTION: JGB T+1 & the Dawn of a New Repo Market March 31 2017 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
(Source: Wikipedia, Bank of Japan Head Office) This series of reports on the so-called “securities settlement revolution” will focus on key tr…
Celent's Innovation and Insight Day: Wealth and Asset Management Stream March 19 2017 Blog Ashley Globerman
We are only weeks away from Celent's 2017 Innovation and Insight Day where we will explore how players in the financial services market are leve…
Wealth and Asset Management Converges on Celent’s Annual Innovation and Insight Day March 11 2017 Blog Kelley Byrnes
This will be the first year that Wealth and Asset Management (WAM) will have its own stream at Celent’s annual Innovation and Insight (I&I) Day.…
The Virtual Agent: NLP in Wealth Management March 09 2017 Blog Kelley Byrnes
NLP has many use cases in consumer banking and is gaining adoption in wealth management. In my report, The Virtual Agent: Natural Language Proce…