Whitepaper
Price check: Is your firm keeping pace with IPV?
Independent price verification (IPV) and valuation control are key requirements of financial firms’ compliance, risk management and reporting activities.
The power of three: How technology, service and expertise can transform investment operations
Investment and wealth managers are investing more in technology these days, but not necessarily with an optimal strategy that reaps expected efficiency gains and cost reductions. Technology alone only gets you so far.
Driving strategic transformation of investment operations
Managing operations as a seamless, front-to-back process is difficult, if not impossible, when a firm has disparate platforms for each of the functions that make up the investment process—often with different technologies that do not easily interoperate.
Real-time and historical market data: Priorities, preferences and the cloud
This paper focuses on firms’ current market data priorities, the asset classes and geographies they are looking to focus on in the near future, and the benefits they expect moving their historical market data storage and consumption to the cloud
Investment management ‘one analytics view’ for credit bonds and ESG risk factors
A Chartis and MSCI research report that examines how firms must integrate ESG risk analytics with multiple other performance or risk analytics in credit bond portfolios to obtain a meaningful, quantitative and comprehensive investment view
Finding the investment management ‘one analytics view’
This paper outlines the benefits accruing to buy-side practitioners on the back of generating a single analytics view of their risk and performance metrics across funds, regions and asset classes.
In search of clean data: Firms navigate data challenges as LLM adoption flourishes
Large language models (LLMs), a form of artificial intelligence (AI) specialising in natural language processing, represent many opportunities for financial services firms to improve investment decisions and enhance risk management.
Post-trade processing via NYFIX matching
This case study highlights a global asset management firm's successful adoption of NYFIX Matching, a product from Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions, to address challenges in post-trade processing.
The move to T+1: This time is different
This whitepaper, created by Broadridge, outlines its NYFIX Matching solution, which offers a tailored road map, leveraging robotic process automation and artificial intelligence, ensuring a smooth transition.
Re-envisioning client life cycle management
The financial services industry faces an urgent need to modernize and future proof its systems and processes.
Navigating the Adoption of Generative AI
This whitepaper, created by Xoriant, focuses on generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to transform the way financial services firms operate, make business decisions and innovate. Gen AI—models developed to generate high-quality text,…
T+1: Complacency before the storm?
This whitepaper, created by WatersTechnology in association with Gresham Technologies, outlines what the move to T+1 (next-day settlement) of broker/dealer-executed trades in the US and Canadian markets means for buy-side and sell-side firms.
Crypto: Too important to ignore
This WatersTechnology rapid read survey report examines the crypto finance priorities of institutional investors, how far along they are on their crypto journeys, the challenges in entering and participating in this market, and what they value most when…
Banks, asset managers look to vendors for T+1 support
This whitepaper focuses on the upcoming move in the US to T+1 (next-day settlement) of broker-dealer-executed trades.
Demand for managed services grows as firms focus on the bottom line
WatersTechnology and SmartStream recently conducted an online survey on the current and future shape of the managed services market across the industry. The research underlines the extent to which the quality of the relationship between capital markets…
Regulatory reporting: Firms seek flexibility, automation and the cloud
This report focuses on the state of regulatory reporting across the industry.
Buy-side compliance: Firms seek customizability and automation
This rapid read explores the types of compliance systems currently in place at buy-side firms, their efficacy, the need to improve automation levels, demand for customizability and the factors preventing buy-side firms replacing incumbent tools
What brokers want: Technology, reliability and interoperability
This whitepaper sheds light on the extent to which brokers make use of single, integrated front-office platforms, their technology sourcing/development preferences, their most acute front-office operational and technology challenges, what they value most…
The case for modularity and interoperability
This rapid read investigates the extent to which firms have optimized their entire trade lifecycles, the structure, challenges and interoperability of their front-office systems.
Outsourcing across the buy side: Look before you leap
This paper investigates the extent to which firms have embraced outsourcing across the industry, key benefits of outsourcing business processes and technologies to specialist third parties, potential drawbacks of outsourcing practices and what firms look…
Apac buy-side firms embrace alt data and the cloud
This paper comprises three sections: respondents’ demographics, alternative data and the cloud.
The Emir Refit Playbook
The upcoming Emir Refit regulation, set to enter the European Union’s statute books in the first half of 2024, is different in substance to the regulations preceding it, although the implications of complying with it are similar: firms will need to…
The world’s fastest file system for financial services
Speed. Agility. Storage. In financial services, the need has never been greater.
High-performance storage for AI and machine learning
It’s a highly complex question with a deceptively simple answer: How do you win with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance, computing-based analytics? Speed.