Guest Contributor: Stevie D. Conlon, Senior Director and Tax Counsel, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services The author thanks John Kareken and Anna Vayser of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services for their assistance. There were several important announcements made last month by the IRS that provide critical income tax relief for investments in money market funds under new
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Software as a (dis) Service – Going in with Your Eyes Wide Open
Guest Contributor: Jane Stabile, President, IMP Consulting, Boston, MA The asset management business has never been more competitive, and CFOs are under tremendous pressure to keep their firms lean. As CFOs seek solutions to keep the headcount down, the argument for Software as a Service (SaaS) has become particularly appealing. SaaS solutions promise to help
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Financial Trading Infrastructure: The Era of Cloud 2.0
Guest Contributor: Jacob Loveless, CEO, Lucera Financial Infrastructures The freedom to try new things The equity downturn has fueled a trend in multi-asset trading that is prompting firms to test new strategies. They realize they can no longer merely trade or price a single asset class. To compete, they must have asset diversification and multi-asset
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Why Financial Services Brands Aren't Equipped for Social Media Risk & Compliance
Guest Contributor: Devin Redmond, Nexgate CEO and Co-founder No longer are financial brands and organizations able to focus solely on storefronts, email aliases and toll free numbers for customer engagement and support. Nowadays, a brand must engage customers 24/7 in social media. However, as we have seen with the rise in social media spam, the
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The Power of Feedback Loops: Fostering an Environment that Supports a Healthy ERM Program
Guest Contributor: Stephen Taylor, Senior Market Manager, U.S. Enterprise Risk & Compliance, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services In the wake of the financial crisis, strategies for managing enterprise risk have taken center stage of organizational decision making and many institutions have revamped their entire approach to understanding the nature of the risks they face and how
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Insurance and Innovation: Are you In or Out?
Guest Contributor: Sheryl Brown, Social Media Coordinator, Ash Brokerage So when you say “financial services” or “insurance” do you immediately think of the word “innovation”? Um … likely not. (Hint: We are not the cool kids on the bus. I hate to break it to you this way.) Why is that? Why, as a group of
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Utilizing Big Data in the Financial Markets
Guest Contributor: Larissa J. Miller, Founder and Board Member of Stuart Investments The financial markets have always been blessed with big data. While other industries are catching up to the markets in terms of size, the financial markets have moved on to the incorporation of the data to existing models, learning models and strategic decision
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Information Technology Responsibility for Social Media
Guest Contributor: Blair Rugh, Chief Compliance Officer, Temenos Social media and other forms of electronic communication are becoming the principal advertising and marketing tools of many financial institutions. First, they are inexpensive. Second, they can be targeted as narrowly or broadly as the bank wishes. Finally, the readership percentage is pretty high compared to print advertising.
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Get Busy Living [Digitally], or Get Busy Dying
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Guest Contributor: Victor Gaxiola, Customer Advocacy Manager, Hearsay Social Anyone familiar with the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” will remember the line, “Get busy living or get busy dying.” It kept echoing in my head as I read the annual World Wealth Report released by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management and thought about our digital world.
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Financial Advisors: Don’t Forget The Next Generation
Guest Contributor: Theresa Daneman, Social Business Specialist, Socialware Every great advisor knows that forming a solid relationship with clients is critical in order to effectively build investment portfolios strategically around personal goals such as saving for retirement, the purchase of a new house, or perhaps, even a vacation home. But all too often, advisors stop
