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Marriage counselling: the risks of software vendor mergers
The risk technology space has seen a spike in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, with more deals to come – but while consolidation offers real benefits for banks and other customers, M&As can also...
The financial crisis showed that not nearly enough attention had been paid to liquidity risk management by either banks or supervisors. Extensive regulation has been proposed in response, but what will...
Post-trade processing is a complex and expensive operational overhead for the majority of financial services firms. Processing remains manually intensive and new derivative products created in the front...
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How are banks improving their risk management techniques?
This handy guide reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques, looking at the benefits and pitfalls of each one.
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Consistency, control & compliance – optimising general ledger reconciliations...
General Ledger (GL) reconciliations form a critical business control function and yet for many organisations remain a manually intensive, fragmented task. SmartStream spoke to UK-based insurers Norwich Union and Prudential, to discuss the benefits of...
What makes it cost-effective? Total cost of ownership with TLM® OnDemand...
Choice is good. For example: The choice between software provided as a service and software installed on site, owned and maintained by the firm. Making the right choice, however, involves comparison and the basis of comparison has to be clear for choice...
The future of the financial close: automating account reconciliations...
This paper examines the problems traditionally encountered in the financial close, and uncovers the real reasons behind late filings, out-of-date management information and earnings restatements. In doing so, it addresses ways to automate one of the few...
Actions speak louder
Financial consultancy firm CityIQ, commissioned by Swift and SmartStream, canvassed over 240 firms about their activities in the corporate actions arena. The May 2003 survey showed widespread automation potential.
International Bank of Taipei upgrades reconciliation process
International Bank of Taipei (IBT) plans to automate its nostro reconciliation process to improve its operational risk by deploying SmartStream Technologies’ Corona transaction management solution.
Smartstream launches ETC application
Smartstream Technologies, the London-based provider of reconciliation and trade confirmation management solutions, plans to let fund managers create electronic notification of trade execution through its latest electronic trade confirmation (ETC) module,...
Basel II sets the pace for operational risk reform
Basel II is set to come into play in 2005, bringing a host of opportunities for vendors along with the new framework for banking supervision. Andrew Partridge examines the potential and some of the challenges for the suppliers and users of financial technology....
How can investment banks use grid technology?
Learn how technology is enhancing risk management
Technology can provide a competitive advantage in banking. How it is applied by Tier 1 and Tier 2 institutions, to the benefit for their risk management systems, is discussed.
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How financial services need to consider their IT infrastructure
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