McDonnell Investment Management is now live with Eagle Investment Systems’ Star investment accounting system, following a four-month roll-out. McDonnell implemented the system with the aim of instituting an efficient straight-through-processing regimen. The web-based system was selected because of its ability to handle a high volume of transactions and to provide McDonnell with Schedule D statutory reporting on behalf of insurance clients.
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 Edgar Randall, UK&I Managing Director, Dun & Bradstreet. As AI becomes the engine of modern business, the question of verifiable data ownership is no longer theoretical, it’s central to how organisations build trust in AI-driven decisions. The rise of AI means models depend entirely on the quality and integrity of the data they consume....
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
Valuations and pricing teams are facing a much higher degree of scrutiny from both the regulatory community and the investor community in the glare of the post-crisis data transparency spotlight. Fair value price transparency requirements and the gradual move towards a more harmonised accounting standards environment is set within the context of the whole debate...