Risk & Compliance
How to Move from Data Management to Risk Management in KYC
KYC as risk management, rather than data management, remains elusive for financial services firms as well as for the high-value goods and other industries
KYC as risk management, rather than data management, remains elusive for financial services firms as well as for the high-value goods and other industries
Banks and financial institutions are facing an uphill task of efficiently managing their ever-growing bundles of financial data in multiple and complex formats.
Facebook surprised the market by announcing its intention to launch Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology.
Evalueserve supported a leading mid-market-focused PE firm to manage the data and financials of its portfolio companies.
Evalueserve helped a PE client to manage and analyze its portfolio company’s unstructured data and profitability trends.
A month after April 2020, when oil futures traded negative for the first time in history, markets are still wary, although
A leading M&A advisory firm was looking for solutions to manage staffing issues amid peak workloads without onboarding full-time employees and compromising data confidentiality.
COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, and for the first time since the Great Depression, both advanced and emerging economies are plunging into recession simultaneously.
A private equity firm that was handling increased deal flow needed to scan multiple opportunities, analyze significant amounts of target company data, and build and analyze standard financial models.
A private equity firm focused on the food & beverage industry wanted to understand the impact of the COVID-19 shutdown on its portfolio companies.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a grave threat for both global health and the economy.
Public and regulatory attention to the impact of COVID-19 on banks has been rightly focused on credit quality.
As China heads to a long Labor Day weekend (1st to 5th May), the uppermost question in the minds of all policymakers, is how to spur more consumption and get the economy back on the path to recovery as quickly as possible.
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As Covid-19 continues to spread, the burden of disease has been asymmetrically distributed, as countries find themselves at different stages of the pandemic.
The bank needed resources experienced in Financial Due Diligence who could provide end-to-end support, including creating a full-fledged FDD databook and report.
Covid-19 has caused significant disruption to our way of life, with many changes expected to outlive the current crisis.
There has been a high level of interest from our clients and partners on the recovery in China.
The journey of SFTR had initially started in Jan 2016 and is now planned to become partially in force from July 2020.
Saying that the COVID-19 pandemic is creating havoc across each node of the global supply chain is an understatement.
A leading global management asset company struggled with having no workflow system in place when tracking and prioritizing content requests.
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Financial statements, SEC filings, management presentations, etc., have long been the only reliable data sources for analysts. Not anymore.
Discover the multiple ways that automation can make small but powerful changes to your KYC process.
Asset managers rely on third-party composite scores for their investment decision-making. But how reliable and valid is this data, and does it truly meet their investment objectives? Let’s try and understand.
Increasingly, ‘alternative’ or non-market data holds the promise of smarter investments and superior returns. But how can you get to grips with the mass of information out there and use it to make better decisions?
A top global bank needed our help with making process improvements to flag high-risk accounts.
The bank needed help with bringing together and refining diverse risk management processes surrounding their high-risk portfolio management, in order to improve their report turn-around times.
A leading US investment bank was struggling with providing the right number of staff with the right language skills at the right time, in order to deal with the peaks and troughs in enhanced due diligence work.
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The key pillars for a strong ESG data strategy are smart data interventions, backed up by input from subject matter experts (SMEs). Here are four areas where that approach can help you overcome ESG data issues.
The once revered LIBOR fell out of favor after banks manipulated it to boost profits. With the FCA deciding to phase it out completely by 2021, companies will need to change their systems within a short span of two years. Are you prepared?
See how asset management marketing can enable growth and profitability by modernizing its own operations. In this post, we discuss three automation strategies that can help industry CMOs and marketing stay relevant.
What are the opportunities in Latin America for investors seeking non-traditional assets? Here is a strategy that yields the same returns as the market, while reducing risks for investors.
Increasing importance of data lineage and advent of machine learning indicates that traditional and new risk models will co-exist, as the MRM life cycle is optimized. But what will help minimize teething pains associated with this growth phase? Find out more in this blog.
The client needed a solution that would not only streamline the update process, but convert the marketing handout into a digital format, with interactive and engaging charts.
Our client’s existing offshore strategy was based on a dedicated one-toone support model, with very few analysts having access to offshore teams.
Our Automated Model Update Solution reduced the time spent on updating financial models dramatically. Research associates were able to save approximately 40-70% time on model updates.
This client was looking for deeper, more sophisticated analysis of clients’ portfolios in relation to their investment goals, plus a rigorous way to evaluate the performance of their accounts and financial advisers.
To secure sustainable growth and deliver high-quality services to their end clients, banks need skilled offshore teams who can support their business throughout the index life cycle.
Developing, validating and monitoring multiple models is hard work. Regulators want high-quality, well-produced reports.
We helped a leading US investment bank to decompose the process of validation and to automate key processes for testing and documenting, delivering significant time savings and business benefits.
See why young investors looking to invest for a long term should consider dividend stocks.
As digital transformation advances, many are turning to automated marketing solutions – but they’re still overwhelmed by their workflow.
Is it time for investors in LatAm to tread an investment path different from the one taken by traditional asset managers? Should they embrace the global trend of factor indices and take controlled risk with proven strategies?
Have a look at current trends in the world of robo-advice, and how leading and challenger brands are exploiting it.
A large-scale investment manager engaged Evalueserve to develop a target operating model for its marketing team that would enhance its operational efficiency, marketing effectiveness, and overall customer experience.
We set up a dedicated team with experience in credit risk model monitoring and various data analytics tools, including SAS. A senior risk specialist supported the team.
The client’s credit risk reporting and analytics team were tasked with meeting the reporting and analytical needs of credit risk managers across the WIM line of business.
We helped a US bank to proactively identify and manage bad actor risk, improve name screening for AML monitoring, and maintain financial advisor compliance.
Dividend stocks are often associated with older investors looking for a regular yield, while young investors target short-term price movements. But does the relentless pursuit of price returns actually work?
MiFID II is revolutionizing the way investors pay for their research. Check the most recent trends emerging in the research industry and see how much buy-side can expect to pay for research, and what will they be willing to pay for.
Evalueserve, a global provider of research, analytics, and data management services, has launched a new product – Pitchready, a productivity suite that offers fast and configurable pitchbook solutions to investment banking and advisory firms. The software saves 95% of time spent on adding logos to a pitch book and 80% of time spent on creating tombstones. Overall, it increases formatting efficiency by 50%.
Pitchready – our suite of PowerPoint-based productivity tools has been developed to make pitchbook creation efforts smarter and more efficient. This case study illustrates how Pitchready helped a major investment bank increase its formatting efficiency by 50%.
As procurement teams shrink, CPOs are looking at new ways to realize savings, increase spend under management and take a strategic view of sourcing – without increasing headcount.
We helped a major US bank transform the productivity and accuracy of their financial spreading process with our patented financial spreading software, Spreadsmart.
The client wanted to leverage freely available meteorological data to improve predictions of pesticide sales.
The new legislative proposal is expected to have a global impact on the ecosystem of how buy-side consumes sell-side research. The changes will create fresh challenges for the industry, but they will also bring some attention-worthy opportunities.
The long-term impact of Brexit is not yet clear, although market sentiments seem largely negative. Companies need to choose between making a move right now or waiting for UK–EU negotiations to play out.
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The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) is expected to have a global impact on how the buy-side consumes sell-side research.
The asset management industry is already facing a number of challenges. How is the industry geared to meet technology-led disruption, including from FinTechs? Also, how are asset managers driving innovation across their value chain? Read to find out more.
While 2000–2009 saw disruption due to outsourcing and offshoring, years (2009–2015) following the global financial crisis, witnessed a stricter global regulatory environment.
Depending on the policies of the winning candidate, the results of the US presidential elections will affect various sectors and businesses. Read on for highlights of the bullish and bearish implications of these elections.
Sell-side research is seeing a range of disruptive changes that are currently redefining the marketplace. Delivering reports that provide newer and deeper insights are needed more than ever before. Is the use of intelligent automation a defining factor in this race to survive?
As the song goes, ‘the times they are a-changing’ for index providers and users. In the past decade, we have seen the rise of various financial regulations, which have created more challenges for the index industry.
Index users and providers are facing greater scrutiny due to the expansion of financial regulations covering the index industry. Discover what are the options for index providers and users.
The client was losing market share due to increased competition from other market leaders and new service providers. They had access to considerable internal and external data but lacked the bandwidth to perform detailed analyses.
The banking sector showed its most vulnerable face during the 2008 recession. Strict regulations and measures enacted soon after the crisis has been keeping banks on their toes.
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Assets under management by robo-advisors are on the rise and both startups and industry leaders are investing in this new technology. But what does that mean for human financial advisors?
Compliance with BCBS 239 is not only mandatory for systemically important banks (SIBs), it also has tangible business benefits. Why then are so many banks struggling to meet the requirements for compliant risk data aggregation and reporting?
Database subscriptions are a necessary expense, but many financial services companies are finding they spend more than they need to.
Risk data management is extremely important for banks, especially in times of financial crisis – and an efficient system for this task certainly has benefits.
Imagine a potential client who wants investment advice but whose earnings, while relatively high, don’t put them in the right bracket for your company’s full services.
Today’s dynamic and fast-paced businesses look for quick and informed decision-making, powered by real-time analysis of huge volumes of data.
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