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Recorded Webinar: How Financial Institutions can adjust to working in the New Normal

The very sudden impact of Covid-19 and resultant shutdown of physical sites has stress-tested financial institutions and vendors to their limits. Now banks and firms are slowly starting to re-open offices. But what will the new normal look like and what steps should you be taking now to make the most of this situation? This…

The Reconciliations Revolution: How COVID-19 is Shining a Light on Outdated Technology

By Mark Bolton, Head of Sales, International, Gresham Technologies. Automation was once embraced wholeheartedly by reconciliation departments as companies leaped at the opportunity to integrate the latest efficiency driving technology to bring about change and improvement. However, in more recent times this has been replaced by a mood of complacency and stagnation, characterised by a…

The Perils of Inaccurate Data Capture

By Russell Jones, CEO, Fetchify (specialising in SaaS address lookup and data validation solutions). Inaccurate data can be damaging to all aspects of a business. In a 2018 survey, Gartner reported that organisations are negatively impacted by poor quality data, resulting in wasted resources and unnecessary costs to the tune of $15 million annually. Poorly…

The Changing Role of Data Management in the Post-Pandemic Age

By Boyke Baboelal, Strategic Solutions Director, Asset Control. Continuous, and often rapid, change has been a given for organisations across multiple economic sectors since the COVID-19 virus took hold and it looks set to be a key feature of the post-pandemic age, whose key trends are already taking shape. Across the financial services industry, change…

EDM Council Launches Cloud Data Management Work Group

Data management trade association the EDM Council this week launched the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) Best Practices Work Group, with participation from players including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as over 20 prominent financial industry firms. Co-chaired by Morgan Stanley and Refinitiv, project management is provided…

ASG Technologies Pushes into Australia with Ascention Partnership

Systems management provider ASG Technologies has partnered with Sydney-based data analytics and enterprise performance management specialist Ascention to develop data governance and data lineage solutions for the Australian market. A recent survey of IT professionals by ASG found that two of the top barriers to realizing the full value of data in the enterprise are finding and…

Asset Control Wins with New Managed Services Contracts

Venerable Annuity, the legacy annuity business of Voya Financial (created by an investor group led by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Crestview Partners and Reverence Capital Partners) has confirmed the migration of its data management systems to AC PaSS, the cloud-based managed service solution from Asset Control. The ACPaSS solution will provide Venerable with…

Recorded Webinar: Address Emerging Operational Risk and Alleviating Data Blind Spots with AI Powered Risk Management

The digitalisation of financial services is in full flight, as financial institutions strive to offer the same levels of service and improved customer experience that consumer markets have enjoyed for some time. This digitalisation – providing seamless access to appropriate services on demand – requires great emphasis on client data. This changing digital landscape, and…

ASG Technologies Partners with ibi on Integrated Data Intelligence

ASG Technologies has teamed up with New York-based Information Builders Inc (ibi), an end-to-end data and analytics provider, in a bid to boost confidence in data to meet regulatory requirements and support informed business decisions. “Organizations need to be agile enough to quickly and effectively access and analyse data from inside and outside the organization…

Informatica Launches New Solution for Data Governance

Informatica, a California-based enterprise cloud data management specialist targeting financial services, this week showcased a new metadata-driven intelligence and automation solution for data analytics and privacy governance. The AI-driven solution will enable organizations to govern their data holistically to drive data democratization and cloud and analytics modernization with trusted data, as well as provide customer…