Contributor: Rich Chapman
There’s no denying the hard work that goes into the comprehensive automation, consolidation and streamlining of reconciliation solutions. But once the resulting efficiencies have been obtained by an institution, is the job done? Well, not quite.... read more
Contributor: Rich Chapman
"Shortage in liquidity will kill you instantly and excess liquidity will kill you over time" is a well-known industry saying which serves as a very real warning to banks across the globe of the dangers of poor liquidity management. These dangers are highlighted even more starkly by the waves of change that are washing over the banking world, ranging from Europe’s painfully drawn out debt issues to last month’s revelations that four major US banks failed their latest rounds of stress tests. All in all, banks’ liquidity management strategies (or lack of) are very much under the spotlight. ... read more
Contributor: Rich Chapman
“Go and tidy your room or you won’t get any dessert!” I droop my shoulders and trudge off upstairs to set about the gargantuan task of bedroom tidying. It’s going to be tough. It’s one thing to collect the mess on the floor and across all available surfaces, but what on earth am I to do with it? For a start, not only will I need to rationalize all of the toys on the floor, I will need to collect all the other boxes and toys that are stored away to properly repack and stow in an efficient manner...... read more
Contributor: Rich Chapman
When my interest in matching and reconciliation solutions began around 10 years ago, solutions were nothing more than a box in the corner producing daily exception lists for manual review and archival. Investments in technology have had an incredible effect on such solutions that now include complex ETL integration, pre-and post- import validation and manipulation, duplicate checking, intra-day processing, aggregate matching, permutation matching, candidate matching, multi-threading, workflow, real-time reporting, 64 bit processing, complex derivative and high volume processing. It’s exciting and it represents enormous cost and risk reduction for organisations effectively deploying such capabilities. But spare a thought for our IT and system support teams that configure, customise, track, analyse and optimise these environments.... read more
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