Business Platform Transformation Strategy [ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008- Today’s CIO organizations face a complex array of challenges in managing the Business Platform (the group of applications and services that implement the Business Value Chain). The business perceives technology innovation as a business differentiator, demands application portfolio stability, requires change requests to be handled promptly, experiences growth rates that are often unpredictable and exponential, and exerts continuous pressure to reduce product time to market. Complicating this, these challenges are being made to IT ...

Optimizing the OTC Pricing and Valuation Infrastructure [ Source: FINCAD ]
May 2010- The bespoke nature of OTC derivatives and structured deals makes pricing and risk evaluation an extraordinary challenge. Traditionally, due to prohibitive costs and the limited number of options available, most banks, asset managers, and hedge funds overcame this obstacle by depending on broker-dealers to furnish prices for instruments with more complex payout structures. In recent years, however, the industry has seen banks and investment firms build up their own pricing and valuation capabilities to counter ...

Best Practices in Corporate Actions Processing: A Guide for Investment Managers Ten Common Pain Points and Effective Steps to Mitigate Them [ Source: Advent Software ]
June 2008- Improving the efficiency of corporate actions handling can help cut costs, provide competitive advantage through better client service, maintain regulatory compliance, and reduce operational and reputational risks. By the same token, corporate action errors—a mislaid notification, a mistyped data input, a misapplied event—can result in painful financial losses. While precise figures are hard to come by, industry observers estimate that 10 percent of annual corporate actions processing costs are attributable to “write-off” funds reserved ...