Bloomberg EMEA Buy-Side Consultant Insight Day

On the 4th of May this year, John Read had the pleasure of attending the inaugural Bloomberg EMEA Buy-Side Consultant Insight Day at their impressive London offices located in the heart of the city. It was fantastic listening to Bloomberg’s
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Prodktr partners with LiqidSolutions to utilise Opmodal to optimise investment operating model reviews.

Prodktr, a capital markets transformation specialist based in Edinburgh announced an exciting partnership with LiqidSolutions to utilise their Opmodal application to accelerate investment operating model reviews driven by technology and data. This exciting partnership enhances Prodktr’s successful buyside transformation roadmap
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Earth Day 2022: Invest in Our Priceless Planet

Today we recognise annual Earth Day and this year’s theme is to “invest in our planet” by focusing on the effects of climate change and the endeavors to mitigate them. This Earth Day, with its focus on financing for climate
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What should senior trading leaders be thinking about?

Trading Operating Reviews have increased in popularity from investment firms who have been under cost pressures but with a wish to scale-up their flow business operations and simplify infrastructure, reduce complexity, footprint, and providers. We believe this trend will continue,
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Top 7 Scary Risks for Data Migrations

Migrating between systems introduces risks for investment firms using outsourced service and technology providers.  Successful migration management is as fundamental as the foundations of a building, yet is often given less priority than the BAU systems integration. Seven typical data
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Six typical reasons why trading firms embark on an operating model review

Conducting an operating model review helps to enable simplification and compression of asset class trading functions and technology operating processes. Below are six typical reasons why trading firms embark on an operating model review: Cost Reduction: due to higher trading
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Data Operating Excellence

Prodktr has successfully delivered data operating model process excellence for an International Asset Manager client, within their Investment Data Transformation, helping to design and implement the next generation operating model.  The Asset Manager transformation team had been tasked with implementing
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Prodktr launches Segue managed service to accelerate firms switching Trading, Operations and Accounting service providers.

Prodktr launches Segue managed service: Prodktr, a business transformation service provider, today announces the launch of ProdktrSegue (prodktrsegue.com), to accelerate financial firms switching trading, operations, and accounting service providers or processing platforms. Growing regulatory burdens, shrinking profit margins, and rapidly
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Prodktr Spark Episode 2 – Investment Management transformation and disruption

Introducing the second episode of Prodktr Spark Podcast, powered by Prodktr ‘Everything About Outsourcing’ The Prodktr Spark podcast is aimed at people who work in the capital markets, in particular those involved in the process chain from the front office
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Managing the most important risks

In the first two posts of this trilogy, we looked at the types of risk that financial firms face, and our approach to identifying and assessing risks. In this third and final post, we move on to describe our approach
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