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Upcoming Webinars
Applying AI technologies to optimize data and enhance decision-making
This webinar will focus on the AI-based technologies available to capital market firms that allow them to develop new strategies to address traditional data management challenges, while also identifying use-cases and making the business case for the adoption and deployment of such technology.
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Modular applications and integrated platforms – the best of both worlds
This webinar will focus on the following themes:
- The business and operational advantages of implementing modular applications that can be either part of a best-of-breed architecture or form a single, integrated front-to-back-office platform
- The business benefits and technology implications offered on the back of implementing modular tools specifically designed to interoperate with other third-party applications
- The emergence of open APIs and how they are allowing sell-side firms to move into new business areas and asset classes
Scrutinizing the bottom line: managing the back office and reallocating working capital to optimize the business
This webinar will focus on the following themes:
- How do capital markets firms improve their back-office maintenance and efficiencies while simultaneously unlocking working capital and redirecting it to the front office?
- What are the key business benefits firms can realistically expect on the back of partnering with a third-party support specialist, and how do they quantify those benefits?
- What are the key attributes/qualities firms should be looking for in a third-party support specialist and how can they structure that relationship so that it works for them?
Capital markets firms, their shareholders and their clients are now scrutinizing the bottom line more so than at any time in the past to ensure they are operating as efficiently as possible, while simultaneously directing working capital to parts of the business responsible for driving innovation and generating revenue. A key aspect of that drive entails firms handing over ERP support for commoditized business functions to a third-party support specialist – a strategy that has enabled companies to re-direct millions of dollars to drive growth. Firms are discovering better ways to reduce costs and improve operations, more accurately and cost-effectively than traditional approaches.
Previous Webinars
Leveraging Interconnection and the Cloud for Faster, Smarter Business Decisions
How the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation and the move to cloud-based services for capital markets firms, and the extent to which such offerings will continue to find traction across the industry.
The Pulse of the Industry 2021—ESG, Advanced Data Analytics and Data Scientists in the Spotlight
This webinar investigates the challenges facing market participants in sourcing, managing and integrating ESG data into investment workflows. The panellists discuss the various opportunities opened up to capital markets firms on the back of cloud-based,…
Managing Data Assets in 2021—Building an Effective Framework for Successful Data Governance and Sharing Best Practices
This webinar explores how data analytics and artificial intelligence tools can help buy-side firms identify hidden value within their data and how buy-side firms can enhance existing business processes by improving data quality
Making remote working a success—The effect of the past seven months on the financial services industry
This webinar explores how industry professionals are optimising business technology in a remote working environment, and what new tools and apps have proven to be effective
Supporting critical business processes during the Covid-19 pandemic—Can managed services provide the answer?
With the pandemic normalizing remote working, lifestyles are changing—and so is the digital landscape. It is now crucial for employees to access technology regardless of where they are. Moreover, many organizations are reviewing frameworks and offloading…
Transforming and Optimizing Corporate Actions Processing
This webinar investigates the challenges and opportunities facing capital markets firms when it comes to their corporate actions strategies. Industry experts discuss the technologies they are implementing to automate what is historically a manually…
From East to West—Investing in Europe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This webinar explores the pain points and opportunities in European market trading, taking a closer look at how high-quality data can empower smarter analytics and trading decisions
Capital Markets Post Covid-19—A Brave New World?
Every capital markets firm—regardless of size, sophistication and level of expertise—has been significantly impacted in one way or another by the Covid-19 pandemic. What started as a health crisis spread quickly to the capital markets, although it’s…
Covid‑19 and the Cash and Liquidity Management Challenges Facing the Capital Markets
The emergence of Covid-19 and the ensuing global pandemic has had a major impact on the capital markets—especially for banks and their cash and liquidity management practices. Banks need to know whether they have sufficient liquidity on an ongoing basis…
Exploring the Critical Role of Alternative Data Under Covid‑19
This webinar explores the critical role of alternative data during these unprecedented times, evaluates how alternative data is contributing to improved decision-making across capital markets, highlights real-life examples and discusses how firms are…
Delivering a Winning Data Strategy—Optimizing Your Data Ecosystem
This webinar focusses on the intricacies of the industry’s data supply chain, suppliers’ and consumers’ day-to-day pain points and how they can be remedied, the crucial role that cloud plays as a catalyst for enablement and change, and the solutions and…
Extreme Volatility—Rising to the Fair Valuations Challenge
Capital markets firms of all sizes continue to grapple with the challenge of developing fair valuations for the illiquid and hard-to-value securities they hold. While this scenario isn’t likely to be resolved anytime soon, there are specialist providers…
Banks Grapple with VPN Capacity Amid Covid-Induced Network Strain
Private network limitations and variable internet connectivity have challenged operational resiliency and business continuity plans.
Capital Markets—What Data-Driven Innovation Looks Like in 2020
This webinar explores industry executives' experiences of data-driven innovation, as well as the challenges and opportunities they have encountered. With reference to specific use-cases, the panel examines the transformative effects of cloud, big data,…
