Waters Wavelength Podcast: The issue with corporate actions
Yogita Mehta from SIX joins to discuss the biggest challenges firms face when dealing with corporate actions.
Wei-Shen Wong, Asia Editor, and Anthony Malakian, Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.
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This week, Yogita Mehta, commercial product director for corporate actions at SIX Financial, joins the podcast to discuss the existing challenges firms face in the corporate action lifecycle.
2:30 – Yogita joins the podcast and gives an overview of her career.
6:30 – They discuss the biggest challenges in the corporate action lifecycle.
13:00 – How do firms deal with these challenges?
15:30 – The talent pool is shrinking.
19:30 – Initiatives some exchanges are involved in to standardize the start of the lifecycle.
23:00 – Are there examples where automation can go wrong?
26:00 – Organizations that achieve 70-75% STP rates should pat themselves on the back.
30:00 – Yogita walks through some technology themes she sees within corporate actions.
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