Industry leading financial institutions are reaping operational benefits and avoiding significant unnecessary financial exposures by ensuring the quality and the timeliness of their corporate actions data. As well as minimising costs from operational disruption caused by incorrect or incomplete data, these firms are able to reduce the risk of litigation and compensation claims arising from corporate actions errors, allowing them to save on the capital they set aside to mitigate these risks and avoid reputational harm. In many cases, the amounts involved are measured in the millions, of pounds, euros or dollars.
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White Paper: Outsourced Corporate Actions Validation
White Paper: Transparency and Evaluated Pricing
In this paper, we take a look at why transparency in the valuation process is important, which regulations demand that attention is given to your transparency policies, how firms should adapt their evaluations data strategy to meet client and regulatory requirements. We also provide a check list of 10 key things financial institutions need to think about in order to satisfy the transparency needs of their clients, auditors and regulators. (more…)
White Paper: A Model for Data Governance - Does Your Organization Really Have One?
The current focus on new regulations, and their impact on risk management practices, has turned the attention of financial institutions to data. It is increasingly evident that accurate and consistent data is key both to compliance with incoming regulations and to reaping the benefits of a robust risk management strategy.
Business managers have come to the realization that data is an asset that can be turned into a strategic advantage. By tapping into their data assets, savvy business heads are transforming what was once the long-forgotten poor stepchild of the financial enterprise into a weapon that can be wielded to boost profits, streamline operational processes and meet the stringent needs of new regulation, whatever shape it eventually takes.
Special Report: Evaluated Pricing
Valuations and pricing teams are facing a much higher degree of scrutiny from both the regulatory community and the investor community in the glare of the post-crisis data transparency spotlight. Fair value price transparency requirements and the gradual move towards a more harmonised accounting standards environment is set within the context of the whole debate about data quality across the financial services business, in light of incoming regulations such as Basel III and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). Whether it is related to risk management, pricing, trading or reporting, firms need to be able to stand behind their numbers.
White Paper: Post-Trade Technology - Reactive or Progressive?
Free white paper, authored by the London Stock Exchange Group
Post-trade technology enables brokers and investors to confirm and report trades, and is essential to the effective operation of these firms. However, the technology at the heart of many of these systems was designed for a simpler trading environment. As the environment has evolved, for example through new regulations and the growth of alternative asset classes, firms have been forced to adapt their systems. This has often involved piecemeal upgrades, building on previous amendments and involving inefficient workarounds.
Performance Benchmarking 2011: Valuations in North American Buy-Side Institutions
Bloomberg swept the board in A-Team Group’s Performance Benchmarking survey of North American valuations services for the buy side. The report – sponsored by SIX Telekurs and Standard & Poor’s and available for free download below – surveyed buy-side managers on key trends, budgets and experiences with vendor services.
