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.
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.
SIX Telekurs White Paper & Recorded Webinar: Acceptable Price Variance
This webinar and white paper answers the question:
How much variance in evaluated pricing is acceptable?
Exchange-traded securities have the advantage of having a “price” reflecting the overall value investors place on future earnings, credit quality, management expertise and more. But more than half of all financial products today actually trade away from an exchange, including over-the-counter products and securities with no organized exchange for consummating day-to-day transactions. How do portfolio managers find reliable pricing information for those products? That’s where evaluated pricing comes into play.
