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Geoff Harries

a non-active Finextra member | 06/10/2009 | 4023 views

Buy-side Perspective: Corporate Actions Still a Priority?

With an increasing pressure on revenue and margins, corporate action losses are becoming more difficult to absorb within the business. The risk profile has not changed, but the ability to absorb these losses is now substantially different. It should therefore be a high priority for 2009/2010. Standardisation and automation is key to preventing ... Tags: Post-trade & ops, SibosGroup: Asia Financial Services.

a non-active Finextra member | 01/10/2009 | 3907 views

Corporate Actions: Faxes Working Overtime

Too much time drinking the XBRL "cool-aid" can seriously damage your health, as can obsessing about the co-existence of ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 message formats, without dealing with today's issues of data management. As a collective industry, let's face it, we are still heavily process oriented towards the sending and receiving of fax notifica... Tags: Post-trade & ops, SibosGroup: Asia Financial Services.

a non-active Finextra member | 31/07/2009 | 3803 views

OTC Lifecycle automation increases for the buy side

Recently, the industry has focused on the communication between the two parties involved in OTC contract confirmation. Media attention has concentrated on the debate of market infrastructure and the role of the central counterparty. It’s good to see that another important part of the OTC lifecycle definition has been completed with the deliv... Tags: Post-trade & ops, SibosGroup: Asia Financial Services.

a non-active Finextra member | 30/06/2009 | 3537 views

Prevent Revenue Leakage By Plugging the Gaps Now

With contracting assets under management, fund management firms, fund managers and hedge funds alike have been quick to extend performance fee schedules and introduce innovative, complex products to maintain client interest. Yet, they’re missing the simplest of tricks - automation of fee billing - as many of these potential fees remain und... Tags: Post-trade & ops, SibosGroup: Asia Financial Services.

a non-active Finextra member | 11/06/2009 | 2389 views

OTC lifecycle control begins internally with operations

The internal operational challenge surrounding OTC derivatives remains an area that individual firms have to take responsibility for. In early 2008 we were obsessed about volume, bottlenecks and efficiency, in 2009 we are facing a slightly different operational challenge; that of counterparty risk and exposure management and underlying principles ... Tags: Post-trade & ops, SibosGroup: Asia Financial Services.