Smart Reconciliation and What’s Next for Buy-Side Investment Managers
A Q&A discussion with Electra’s SVP of Client Services, Paul Chung How can buy-side investment managers best leverage technology to build a smart and collaborative reconciliation function in the face of unprecedented market volatility and volume? Electra’s Paul Chung explains the increasing importance of reconciliation to reduce risk and improve overall operations, and the technolo...
How Electra Managed Services Helps Asset Managers Streamline Operations in Challenging Market Environments
By Paul Chung and Jennifer McMackin In the strains of operating remotely during an uncertain economic environment coupled with high market volatility and more stringent regulations, it becomes even more critical for investment operations managers to have automated and streamlined processes. High volumes of transactions and data is the new norm. The front lines of the industry have receiv...
Two Major Data Challenges Buy-Side Investment Managers Still Face – And What They Can Do About It
By Jennifer McMackin Many investment managers’ trade reconciliation and other post-trade processes are still burdened with the inefficiencies of collecting, normalizing and validating data from third-party sources. A typical investment management firm receives numerous data feeds on securities, positions and transactions. This creates more work for operations teams to manage data and mai...
Why Intelligence Augmentation is the Buy-Side’s AI Answer to Solving Persistent Reconciliation Challenges
By Todd Sloan Practical artificial intelligence (AI) use cases and applications in buy-side reconciliation and post-trade operations are prevalent, yet many have yielded uneven and questionable results. AI can go only so far to autonomously solve the operational problems investment management firms face. The solution? An intelligence augmentation (IA) approach to AI. Artificial intellige...
