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Corporate actions: from cool business as usual essentials to smouldering hot

At 01 Oct 2007 14:29:45 in A-Team Insight Quarterly    Print Article  Email Article   Full content requires subscription 

Corporate actions have officially entered the enterprise data management fold, but how long will it take to change behaviour and get real results out to end users?

By Maryann Houglet, Vice President, Strategic Consulting, A-Team Group

Have you ever wished corporations would maintain the status quo and not continually announce change? This would certainly simplify workflow for those that handle corporate actions and announcements – usually the operations departments of financial institutions. Corporate actions cover a lot of territory and carry a lot of risk. They are homogeneous neither across items nor across geographic boundaries. Holders of the underlying assets benefit from the diligence institutions apply to this data. Recognising the work that corporate actions entail, one manager told A-Team: “Payments are the easy part.”

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