Sanctions violations are increasingly risky for financial firms, given regulators' strict policies and the high costs of non-compliance. Firms must implement proactive measures, including robust screening, updated compliance frameworks, and thorough staff training, to avoid potential penalties. With global sanctions expanding, a lapse could lead to financial and reputational damage, making compliance an essential investment.
Automation
T+1: What Now?
T+1 has clearly arrived in the West, although the views on how this has impacted day-to-day processing will extend globally.
Whether industry firms have taken a tactical or strategic technological approach to covering this market change, the role of technology and the importance of having a highly modernized solution have never been greater.
So, how is technology playing a role – and what are the most important areas that we have seen come through in the transition to T+1 for market participants.
FinTech Ops
New Skillsets & Integrations Are on the Rise for Performance Teams
A recent study reveals how the performance profession is evolving in two key aspects.
Standards
The Next Big Thing in Collateral Management: Digital Assets
The date was April 12, 2011, and U.S. banking regulators published the first draft of proposed rules governing margin requirements applicable to uncleared swaps. The Dodd-Frank Act, which passed a few years earlier, empowered these regulators with the task of creating and adopting these rules for the U.S. uncleared derivatives industry. Other global regulators would
Back-Office
Natural Language Generation: Sailing Through Your Data Lakes
While most might not admit it, many wealth managers are drowning in their data lakes. Whether structured or unstructured data, performance, or regulatory information, corporate or client documents, it is easy for firms with a large number of accounts to feel like they can’t get their head above water to make the best decisions for
KYC
Data Governance to the Rescue?
Introduction: Is data governance the silver bullet for all your data issues? Has the marriage of performance departments and the data office been a successful one? In this blog, we’ll explore the significance of data governance and its impact on addressing data challenges in the performance measurement and client reporting industry. Understanding Data Governance: Data
KYC
Calculating Value Add at Scale for Tax-Managed Accounts
In this post, we will explain what tax-managed separately managed accounts (SMAs) are, clarify terms relative to performance measurement for tax-managed SMAs, and the challenges faced by performance professionals in measuring and attributing performance. After-Tax Returns Investors who care about maximizing after-tax returns may sometimes consider using tax-managed SMAs as part of their portfolio strategy.
Standards
UMAs Are Popular But They Have Reporting Challenges
What is a unified managed account also known as a UMA? In simple terms, it is a way to unify a client’s managed assets into one account. Instead of having one account for a large-cap separately managed account (SMA), another one for a fixed income SMA, and a third one housing mutual funds and exchange-traded
Buy-Side
What’s at the Heart of Investment Skills?
Investment skill is the raison d’être of the asset management industry. Asset managers are paid to have it and their clients pay them for it. Despite this, empirical evidence of its existence, and what it looks like in practice, up to now, has been sparse, to say the least. We at Inalytics have filled that
Automation
T+1 in Canada: Same Goal, Different Plays
Canada and the U.S. have shared a common standard securities settlement cycle for longer than most in the industry today can remember. Industry participants in both countries successfully moved from a standard cycle of five to three business days after trade date (from T+5 to T+3) in 1995 and from T+3 to T+2 in 2017.
