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15 Mar 2013
RFPConnect speaks with Pat Carrol, CEO of ValidSoft to find out his professional opinion on recent Europol stats and its policy on fighting cross-border card fraud.
During the interview we highlighted the card fraud issues in banking industry and identified a few tips on how consumers can protect themselves from card fraudsters in 2013.
To learn more about ValidSoft check out their website or follow ValidSoft on Twitter @ValidSoft
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12 Feb 2013
Version Control spoke with Bernard Tardy, Sales and Marketing Director of SLIB, about the company’s SLIB Middle Office for Brokers product.
Bernard, could you please tell us a little about your company?
Our solutions have been helping financial institutions to improve processing of securities for 25 years. By ‘processing’, we include securities order and trade, clearing, settlement, custody, online voting prior to General Meetings and risk control. We have 50 clients. About half of these are broker-dealers in France and the UK. Six are globally prominent clearing members.Read more...
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11 Jan 2013
Financial services companies can afford under-performing applications and software system failures less than ever before. However, many companies lack the IT budget and the expert personnel to undertake essential testing themselves. The obvious alternative is outsource the work to an external specialist. With this in mind, RFPConnect spoke with David Cotterell, Director of QualiTest Group (Europe) to find out what really matters in the global market for outsourced Quality Assurance (QA) and testing services in 2013.
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13 Nov 2012
Advent Software has been providing reliable, trusted solutions to investment management organizations of all sizes and strategies since 1983. Whether you’re a global hedge fund with investors worldwide or an investment management firm with $500 million under management, Advent’s proven solutions can improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, and eliminate the boundaries between systems, information and people so you can focus on what you do best. In addition to world-class software, Advent’s Consulting Services team employs a specialized, scalable and repeatable project management methodology to ensure that your software implementation is on time and on budget. Using a proprietary implementation methodology, Advent’s implementation specialists work with clients to define requirements, organize resources, plan, and closely track progress on software implementations.
Pete Hess, President and CEO of Advent Software Inc., speaks with RFPConnect about company’s flagship products, their capabilities and benefits for clients.
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21 Jun 2012
Uncertainty in global financial markets has never been greater, and for institutional investors with exposure to hedge funds, there is a now more pressing need to keep close tabs on what is happening in their alternative investment portfolios, be it transparency, liquidity or investment tracking. For investors with hedge fund portfolios, including pension funds and family offices, the right portfolio management tools—with client and service provider connectivity—can be critical to successfully navigating the financial storm. In addition, investment organisations and their service providers need operational solutions that will help them to streamline their businesses, keeping them competitive.
RFPConnect interviews Mr. Rupert Vaughan Williams, Co-Founder and The Head of Business Development at Comada, who introduces M.A.T.ware technology specially launched for alternative funds across the globe and their end clients.
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10 May 2013
Company name:
iCreate Software
Increasing competition, coupled with the pressure to introduce innovative products and services to attract customers, and tightening of regulatory and compliance requirements have challenged banking organizations to constantly ‘do more with less.’ Progressive banks have foreseen this development and have risen up to such challenges time and again.
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Published on
10 May 2013
Company name:
iCreate Software
Real time transaction monitoring
“Information about money is more valuable than money.”
Few decades ago a large bank with few thousands of branches used to take
more than few weeks to compile its total cash holding; liquid assets, thus losing
the opportunity to deploy these assets profitably.
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29 Apr 2013
Company name:
iCreate Software
The objective of this document is to explain the evolution of Data warehousing and Business Intelligence and how to extract maximum benefits from an enterprise Banking Data Warehouse. The concept is based on the principle that you collect granular data from all banking systems (product processor and other repositories) once and reuse the data for multiple applications
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23 Apr 2013
Company name:
iCreate Software
Business Process Management has been a buzzword for quite a while now but most organizations are skeptical about BPM helping achieve the Vision, Mission and Values of the organization. Can BPM truly help organizations optimize and improve business processes? Questions that are equally pertinent to the banking industry.
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17 Apr 2013
Company name:
Reval
Gaining greater visibility of cash is becoming ever more important for international treasury practitioners. Fundamentally, having a better view of cash and cash flows allows an organization to operate more efficiently and with a better understanding of, and therefore control over, risk. This paper looks at the benefits of achieving global visibility of cash, identifies the main techniques used to do so, and outlines the main barriers to using them. It also provides a guide to the key stages in implementing a solution and concludes with an appendix outlining the tools available to improve cash visibility in key markets around the world.
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19 Nov 2012
The application of statistics to professional sport was made famous by the book The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. The book was subsequently made into a movie, with Brad Pitt playing the role of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. A central question of both the book and the film was: how could a small-market, small-budget baseball team like the Oakland A’s compete against teams from larger markets that had the resources to pay top dollar for superstar players?
Does the Moneyball revolution in baseball have anything to teach retail wealth management?
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23 May 2012
This paper explains why it’s so important for closed-end funds to improve their transparency and release full portfolio holdings on a more frequent basis than has been the case historically.
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29 Mar 2012
One of the fundamental decisions that every trading algorithm needs to make as it feeds child orders into the market is where to route them. In a previous research note Pragma reported some empirical results demonstrating that, generally, the market has a strong preference for routing aggressive orders to the cheapest venue that displays the best price. In this note, Pragma demonstrates how this market structure can be exploited by a clever algorithm to obtain an all-in performance improvement when posting limit orders by effectively “hopping the queue.”
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28 Feb 2012
Morningstar European fund flow data for January shows a positive start to 2012 for the European fund industry, with investors adding Euro 13 billion in new assets to long-term European-domiciled funds in January 2012.
Dan Lefkovitz from Morningstar’s European research team comments:
“Buoyant markets have brought investors back into funds. Renewed appetite for risk and a sharp hunger for yield are evident. But the case of Templeton Global Bond is a sign that investors too often have a habit of buying high and selling low. Morningstar’s Investor Returns calculation shows that many of the fund’s investors have not captured its stated total return.”
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25 Jan 2012
Welcome to the first issue of New Managers, Opalesque’s monthly monitor of emerging managers. Apparently, the number of hedge fund launches in 2011 (including maiden
funds) might be the highest, within a calendar year, since 2007 when nearly 1,200 funds were launched. And
many expect more new entrants in the industry coming from larger fund houses and banks. However, with less trading opportunities in a crowded environment, more
involved regulators and investors no longer content with opacity, the environment requires a little more effort to navigate. Now is a great time to put the spotlight on the trials, tribulations and opportunities that emerging managers are facing; as information is key for better navigation.
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