Like any heavily regulated industry, financial services has many sets of third-party compliance standards and guidelines to follow. While compliance with some of these industry standards is voluntary and serves as more of a best practices framework, most responsible firms do make an effort to sta…

It’s essentially a fact of life: a massive volume of data flows through fixed-income trading desks every day. But, despite the increasing influx of data, most PMs still rely on manual, outdated methods of extracting intelligence from the growing supply of information.

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…

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.

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…

Learn what RPA, machine learning, and AI mean for the fund administration industry.

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…

Review some of most popular blogs and articles from the StatPro content library – issues affecting asset managers and service providers of all sizes.

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…

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

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…

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…