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The Pragmatist: Simon Hazlitt's No-Tech Approach to Fund Management
Anthony Malakian recently caught up with Majedie Asset Management's Simon Hazlitt and discovers a buy-side firm that, to all intents and purposes, resides in the cloud.
Identification Proliferation
New order audit trail specifications are expected to generate increased volume of codes for processing, including more rejected code issues for firms to address. Michael Shashoua lays out the scope of the new rules and how firms are viewing the…
Take More Risk (Data)
Take More Risk (Data)
EDM: Linking Up with China
Interest in data management in China is on the rise, and the question now is how—and how quickly—the market can learn from strategies and models that have been tried and tested in other regions, says S&P’s Marc Anthonisen
LEI: A Question of Registration
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EDM: Perfecting Performance
Perfecting Performance
Bank of America's Catherine Bessant: All Business
Catherine Bessant speaks to Anthony Malakian about her rise to the top of the technology stack at B of A, and explains why it's not essential for CIOs to be 'techies.'
The Key to 'Big Data' Mastery
Rob Daly charts the remarkable growth of data volumes in the financial services industry, and looks at the technologies that allow firms to process, analyze and store data quantities that until recently were inconceivable.
Taxed by Tax
The US market has been forced to adapt operational processes to prepare for changing tax regulation related to cost-basis reporting and foreign accounts. As these types of projects have become key activities in corporate actions departments, changing tax…
Looking Beyond Golden Copy
The golden copy concept has once again gained traction in the data management industry, with firms continuing to assess the best ways to manage reference data. Carla Mangado explores why it is being questioned
Spreadsheets: How to Excel
Reducing the industry’s reliance on spreadsheets is a common aim, but such an undertaking is fraught with obstacles. In the meantime, Faye Kilburn asks what firms should be doing to reduce “spreadsheet risk”