Pamela Everett at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management says that knowing the real importance of an error takes time.
Automation
‘Be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable’
Jon Gaspar, a managing director at SLC Management, shares the best piece of advice he ever got and other insights about his career in performance measurement and attribution.
Automation
‘Don’t Be Afraid to Automate Yourself Out of a Job’
Dan Whitley at Lord, Abbett & Co. says he prefers to work with people who have the ingenuity to tackle problems, learn from them, and then take on bigger challenges.
Automation
Start Your A.I. Journey with Modest, Explainable Wins
It’s time to consider a framework where firms start small, explain results, and scale gradually.
FinTech Ops
Financial Service Firms Can’t Afford to Risk Sanctions Violations
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.
Sanctions Compliance
Avoiding Sanctions Penalties: Insights from Danny McGlynn at the IFl
FTF’s Nick Holland explores the importance of sanctions compliance with Danny McGlynn at the Institute for Financial Integrity.
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
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
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
