Insight Investment’s operations have been successfully migrated to the Northern Trust platform, for more than 600 portfolios, following the 2005 announcement of their outsourcing partnership. Northern Trust provides Insight with every aspect of post-trade execution support including trade processing and settlement, data management, reconciliation, portfolio recordkeeping, client valuations and reporting and performance measurement and attribution.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
By Wayne Kiphart, CEO CloudFirst Global. The lack of IT skills globally is widely acknowledged but the problem is particularly concerning when it comes to older systems. As the experts who built these vital platforms retire, younger generations have not been trained in the skills to maintain the infrastructure nor, sadly, have they learnt their...
Now in its 9th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
The Global LEI System – or GLEIS – has been in development since the middle of last year. Development has been patchy at times, but much has been done, leaving fewer outstanding issues, but also raising new questions. What’s emerging is a structure for the GLEIS going forward, complete with a mechanism for registering and...
