Solving Buy-Side Investment Managers’ Corporate Actions Data Challenge
By Todd Sloan For decades, there has been significant interest in automating corporate actions processing across the buy-side community. Meanwhile, the global pandemic’s impact on corporate actions has been significant as firms faced fluctuating timelines and high processing volumes amid cancelled dividends, shifted schedules, postponed mergers and acquisitions, and frequent trading halt...
The Essential Link Between Reconciliation and Golden Source Data
By Todd Sloan Investment managers maintain multiple copies of the same data throughout their post-trade environment often relying on manual activities to distribute and reconcile internal data movement. As more investment managers embrace the use of a central data repository to store important investment accounting and client-related information, it is increasingly important for reconcil...
Hedge Funds: Choose the Right Partners to Meet Investors’ Operational Due Diligence
By Todd Sloan Over the last few years, our clients across the investment management community have seen a heightened focus on operational due diligence driven by a surge of institutional money into hedge funds. In addition, several fraud cases have caused significant losses for even the savviest investors. Regulators are also shining a bright light on hedge funds as they have gained popu...
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...
