Creating a security culture in FinTech
Many financial institutions are now working with FinTech providers in partnerships that are helping transform the industry. Instead of seeing this wave of new start-ups and technological innovation as a threat, institutions are recognizing the opportunity, and young FinTech businesses are discove…
Liquidity risk in the US and EU: Differing ideologies
Stemming from StatPro’s inaugural global regulations panel, when it comes to the relationship between regulators and financial firms in the European Union versus the United States, it’s safe to say attitudes are quite different.
Beyond https – Simple options to secure fintech web applications
We’ve all seen the little green bar on our web browsers and the padlock icon that tells us the site we are visiting is secure. Whilst this is a very useful and visual indicator that the website owners have adopted a verified and acceptable level of encryption certificate, it doesn’t tell us the w…
Robotic Process Automation in the Back Office – Where Might it Lead?
Learn what RPA, machine learning, and AI mean for the fund administration industry.
Global Risk Outlook: Uncovering country risk during market uncertainty
Trade tensions as a result of the tariffs between the US and China, political and economic instability with Russia, and the under performing Brazilian economy require us to assess potential risk exposures we have to these countries. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developm…
StatPro Workflow Magazine: Issue 8
Review some of most popular blogs and articles from the StatPro content library – issues affecting asset managers and service providers of all sizes.
The World Cup and randomness
The average American watching the World Cup has less of an appreciation for the intricacies of set piece routines, or the passing skills of a particular team’s midfielder, but there is undoubtedly an enthusiasm for watching the tournament. No doubt the nationalistic pride on display has an impact…
Routes out of legacy central – How can asset management operations update old tech?
A lot has been written about the high levels of legacy technology within the asset management industry. There are many reasons why this is still the case. The way technology was layered-up over time as various solutions came to market, both internally developed and from a large backdrop of third-party providers, is one of these reasons
Rule 22e-4 and the four buckets: What you need to know
The complex nature of modern derivatives combined with the increasingly global and interconnected nature of the financial ecosystem, has led regulators to place higher burdens on fund managers to know their liquidity position. Since funds have long moved beyond just trading well-known and large…
How to tell the difference between cloud native and cloud wrapped software
Cloud computing is changing the way we all consume and interact with technology. Whether this is at home with Netflix or Amazon Alexa, or at work, with cloud-based services like Office365 or Salesforce, or other specialist enterprise applications. In business, cloud computing is an enabler, creat…
Using technology to manage liquidity risk
If the financial crisis of a decade ago taught us anything, it’s that the liquidity of traded financial instruments is unpredictable and can fluctuate wildly in a matter of seconds. During the crisis, the eventual loss of liquidity, combined with the highly interconnected nature of modern directi…
A Short History of Performance Systems
It has been over 50 years since Peter Dietz published his seminal work ‘Pension Funds: Measuring Investment Performance’ – when performance measurement became both standardized and quantifiable and a new industry was born. Over the following years, performance measurement evolved from simple calc…