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Upcoming Webinars
Leveraging technology for faster, better investment decisions
Buy-side firms face a number of critical day-to-day challenges, but none is more central to their existence than their ability to make the most judicious investment decisions on behalf of their clients. Central to that notion is technology and the extent to which it can be leveraged to systematize the variables that drive firms’ investment decisions, while also providing transparency and granularity about how and why decisions were made. Clearly, developing and deploying systems for decision support is not a trivial undertaking, but for those firms that do have technology in place to optimize the speed, accuracy and judiciousness of their investment decisions, the rewards can be substantial.
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Measuring climate risk: what’s possible now
Pressure from government and society on banks and asset managers to help manage climate risk and disclose progress towards a sustainable future is high. Institutions are working to quantify the impact of climate change on their balance sheets. They want to assess the new capital requirements necessary to be compliant with evolving regulations.
Current approaches have failed to offer meaningful, impactful or sustainable answers. While the market navigates this unchartered territory, there is also a need to generate scenarios to better understand the range of effects of potential causes changes. Such changes will need to address physical climate risk and the transition to a low carbon, more sustainable future.
- Identifying and acquiring the information needed to measure, monitor and manage climate risk across your institution, client base and portfolio
- How risk managers and ESG teams at your peers are preparing for future risks, regulatory disclosures and an increased impetus to get ahead of climate risk
- New methodologies and tools available
- How leading banks are translating ESG and climate risk challenges into strategic objectives to drive future growth
Previous Webinars
Cloud-based Data Services—Identifying the Benefits and Potential Pitfalls
At least one silver lining emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic for the financial services industry: most capital markets firms on both sides of the industry appear to have coped well with the initial disruption. Pretty much all of these firms have adapted…
Modular Applications and Integrated Platforms—The Best of Both Worlds
Traditionally, sell-side front offices have been forced to make difficult choices between single integrated trading platforms and discrete modular applications designed to support specialist front-office functions such as trading and execution management…
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,…
