Contributor: Laurent Jacquemin
In the derivatives industry, significant, year-over-year transaction volume growth has become the norm. With high-frequency trading driving up the volumes of trades to hundreds of thousands or even millions per day, derivatives market participants must be able to manage these higher volumes. Moreover, due to market volatility, the peaks in volume must be managed within shorter time intervals, and this is driving the need for scalability.... read more
Contributor: Alfred Sanders
Corporate finance organizations are facing unparalleled pressure to improve operations. To be competitive, they’re looking to better manage the financial supply chain, integrate and standardize processes, achieve a return on technology investments, and manage risk while improving margins and reducing costs. ... read more
Contributor: Art Hernandez
I recently had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on increasing cash flow through standardization & automation and I thought I would share a few insights that I took away from that discussion. The panelists included credit professionals from three different industries – wireless/telecom, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. All had automated their accounts receivables processes at their current companies but also at previous companies. An industry consultant from The Hackett Group was also on the panel. ... read more
Contributor: Magnus Almqvist
The overarching objective of increasing market resilience and stability during periods of turmoil is shared by most, if not all, market actors. But that is where the agreements seem to end. How to achieve this, and how successful the regulators can hope to be is something that could be debated and discussed endlessly. We certainly had a good go at it during a recent panel discussion at SunGard’s London Industry Seminar, and I made the following observations from the event.... 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
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