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My Prognosis for Remote Working in Wealth Management

The ship has sailed. Remote working will remain, post-Covid, even in wealth and asset management. The debate now centres around the balance between remote and office working, and the long term effects of each. Schroders was the first London asset manager to take a stance, announcing its decision in August 2020 to offer long-term homeworking. There...

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James Wooster

James Wooster COO at Glue42

Weighing your options: Desktop Integration Platforms in Use

In the prior two blogs of this series, we had introduced the fragmented desktop, and outlined the advantages of using a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) to solve the problem. In this blog, we look at emerging standards in Desktop Integration and how vendor solutions provide advantages over homegrown solutions. We round out the conversation wit...

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Daniel Geddes

Daniel Geddes Global Head of Product Management at Torstone Technology

Overcoming the challenges of migration

Older technology is underperforming, as are the services built upon it. Where a financial institution has placed significant investment in a core system over many years there comes a point where the technology and architecture are no longer able meet the demands of the current business processes in many key areas. The system becomes legacy and its...

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James Wooster

James Wooster COO at Glue42

Unifying the Desktop

In our prior blog, we had introduced desktop fragmentation, the problems posed by it, and how a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) can solve them. In this blog we delve further into the architecture and structure of DIPs. Providing a seamless user experience to end-users such as traders, analysts, data scientists, etc. has long been a challenge ow...

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Hyper-Personalise Communications to Nurture Deeper, More Satisfying Client Relationships

Wealth managers must master hyper-personalisation in order to retain revenues during the great wealth transfer. For wealth managers striving to achieve competitive advantage, the depth of client relationships heavily influences service quality, loyalty, share of wallet and – ultimately – profitability. Increasingly, wealth managers are reassessing...

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Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Multiple Protocols Boost Liquidity in E-Trading of U.S. Treasury Bonds

With so many traders working from home, the pandemic is said to have accelerated the shift to electronic trading in U.S. Treasury bonds. Now industry leaders are debating the future of trading protocols in the world’s largest and most liquid market. On a recent industry webinar, bond experts said that supporting multiple trading protocols is key t...

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Mark Badyra

Mark Badyra CEO at Appital

How to access a rebound market of small and mid-cap stocks

Small and mid-cap companies are due for a rebound, according to Barclays who screened nearly 400 of its small- and mid-cap stocks in late July. Even though small and mid-cap companies with typically weaker credit profiles have generally taken a harder hit by the Covid pandemic, the bank nonetheless found a number of high-conviction names with imp...

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What does a successful enterprise cloud solution look like?

Ten years ago, when cloud-native apps started appearing, the on-prem versus cloud discussion was a legitimate debate. Now, the new question is: which cloud technology will best serve the purposes of your business? How can enterprises hedge the risk of becoming dependent on one cloud provider? The cloud journey so far A decade ago when cloud techno...

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Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

The Buy Side's Hunt for Bond Liquidity

Fixed-income traders reflecting on the bond liquidity crisis and volatile markets caused by the global pandemic in March and April are pushing ahead with more automation to solve the liquidity and data-quality issues they faced. Citing the value of aggregation tools to bring in direct pricing streams, portfolio trading, and all-to-all trading proto...

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Simon Barnby

Simon Barnby CMO at Archax

Disrupting Financial Markets 1 - The Issuer

There has and continues to be much talk around digital securities or security tokens, which are securities represented digitally on a blockchain. Many advantages are talked about on how they will disrupt financial services and democratise capital markets for everyone. But to what extent are the advantages down to the technology, a renewed way of t...

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