Reconciliation and exception management processes are converging with automation and artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies, and the union could be much more than an upgrade from manual processes. If managed correctly, it could be a quantum leap forward, resulting in Ops reborn as a forward-looking trend tracking system for the front office. Yet adoption faces significant… Read More >>
Politics Can Kill a Move to the Utility Model
Internal political battles at securities firms can prevent them from considering cost-effective utility models for key operations, say officials at financial services consultancy Capco, which just released a global survey of banking executives’ reactions to utilities. Overall, Capco officials say that the survey finds that firms are “failing to take full advantage of the utilities… Read More >>
SmartStream Updates Exception Management Offering
Reconciliations vendor SmartStream has added several enterprise-wide capabilities to the latest release of its TLM Exception Management solution, officials say. The new version includes new features to ease the managing of processes, provide step-by-step operations capabilities and alert functionality across the front-to-back-office. The new functionality is already in use within SmartStream’s Reference Data Utility (RDU),… Read More >>
The Dirty Secrets of Retro Recs Processing
The dirty secret about reconciliation and exception management is that many firms – large and small – are still using mostly manual processes. They are applying a mix of calls, faxes, data feeds, spreadsheets, internally developed applications and a desktop database to the problem, essentially what they were doing to support trading in the late… Read More >>
