Category Archives: Back-Office

Lean and Efficient Best Practices: Utilities, Shared Services and Centres of Excellence in Reconciliations

Guest Contributor: David Penney, Executive Vice President , SmartStream Technologies Ltd Reconciliations are an essential part of back office processing throughout financial services and markets. Experience with our customers leads to the conclusion that Internal Utilities are already well established … Continue reading

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Get Your Big Data Under Control

Guest Contributor:  Mark Wickersham, Director of Product, ByAllAccounts, Inc. Mid-market asset managers drowning in compliance costs are reaching for better reconciliation systems in order to expand their AUM without collapsing their margins. For many investment management firms, new channels of … Continue reading

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Rethinking Reconciliation

Guest Contributor: Michael Alexander, EVP & COO Business Process Outsourcing, Broadridge Financial Solutions Financial institutions can enhance risk management and reduce costs through a reconciliation global center of excellence.  Timing is critical. The cost of falling further behind industry standards … Continue reading

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Transforming Uncertainty into Opportunity

Guest Contributor: Dan Retzer, Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, XSP That coexistence between the ISO 15022 and 20022 messaging standards presents challenges to the producers and consumers of financial data is without question. These challenges, however, also yield opportunities … Continue reading

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6 Keys to Reconciliation: What Asset Management Operations Really Need to Know [Complimentary Whitepaper]

Download Whitepaper Now Complimentary Whitepaper Reconciliation Best Practice What Asset Management Operations Really Need to Know. Featuring expert insights on the six key functional areas critical to reconciliation. By Duncan Wheatley, Managing Director of Watson Wheatley Financial Systems. The reconciliation … Continue reading

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Reconciliation Vendors Say Cheeeeese

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This week, FTF held its 7th Annual Reconciliations & Exception Management Conference in New York City.  The event was a great success with over 100 attendees and 10 sponsors.  Take a look through some of the great companies that participated: … Continue reading

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Corporate Actions in the Cloud, ISO 20022 and Data Barriers, Oh My

It’s official.  The preliminary agenda for the FTF 6th Annual Corporate Actions Processing Conference is up, live and ready for your viewing pleasure.  This year, we will be focusing on how corporate action departments can overcome real-time reporting requirements, changes … Continue reading

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Industry Survey: Bridging the Transparency Gap

Industry Survey: End user firms want more transparency from their pricing and reference data vendors DOWNLOAD SURVEY RESULTS NOW Pricing vendors need to consider a more pro-active dynamic with their customers to provide more transparency into the due diligence process … Continue reading

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The Future of Post-Trade Derivatives Processing

Guest Contributor: Laurent Jacquemin, executive vice president, post-trade derivatives, SunGard’s capital markets business In the derivatives industry, significant, year-over-year transaction volume growth has become the norm. With high-frequency trading driving up the volumes of trades to hundreds of thousands or … Continue reading

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Cloud IT Services: Changing the Game for Hedge Funds

Guest Contributor: Jason Elmer, Director of Business Development, Abacus Group The cost of owning and operating on-site IT resources has led hedge funds to adopt cloud-based IT solutions at an increasing rate.  This momentum has been helped by a greater … Continue reading

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