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For most of my career, I have thought of myself as of a financial services “operations guy,” focused on operational efficiency and client services, getting the right value for the price of technology that I...

It’s no stretch to say technology has become extremely important to the fixed income trader, especially technology that can help make sense of and glean insight out of the massive amount of data that exists...

Many financial institutions are now working with FinTech providers in partnerships that are helping transform the industry. Instead of seeing this wave of new start-ups and technological innovation as a...

A lot has been written about the high levels of legacy technology within the asset management industry. There are many reasons why this is still the case.

Cloud computing is changing the way we all consume and interact with technology. Whether this is at home with Netflix or Amazon Alexa, or at work, with cloud-based services like Office 365 or Salesforce, or...

It has been over 50 years since Peter Dietz published his seminal work ‘Pension Funds: Measuring Investment Performance’ – when performance measurement became both standardized and quantifiable and a new...

Do you live in a SmartCity? Our guess is that if you live in a relatively big city, it is very likely “smart”. There are many definitions for what makes a SmartCity, but according to Cisco and the Center...

As asset service providers continue their success in middle office outsourcing, how can they leverage new technology to manage growing volumes of data and deliver quality to clients?

Just a few years back, the industry was responding to regulatory filings like Form N-MFP, AIFMD Annex IV, Form PF, Form CPO-PQR and Solvency II with individual software solutions to solve each one of those...

Deloitte’s 2018 Regulatory Outlook states that even with all of the regulatory discussions and progress toward regulatory transparency both in Europe and in the United States in 2018, the uncertainty from a...