Our expert panel looks at how the specialist fund admin industry is handling issues such as technology and cyber crime, discusses the threat of global competition and lays out an agenda for the year. Chaired by Alex Rolandi.
TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP – ASSET MANAGEMENT
Winner – Kerry McCormack, global head of IT, First Sentier Investors
Kerry McCormack has not let a global pandemic distract her in a year of hugely impressive achievements.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Winner – Factset
For this award, the judges were looking for a firm that has demonstrated a commitment to diversity on a number of levels with particular focus on technology.
Our experts discuss Covid-19, innovation labs, institutional attitudes and what makes a successful start-up. Chaired by Nicholas Pratt.
Allow me to once more draw a parallel between football and fund management (see Fundtech passim).
Following recent regulatory changes looking at operational resilience, Paul Roberts, CEO at Milestone Group, investigates how firms have changed their mindset towards managing disruption.
The largest software vendors in the industry embarked on a wave of consolidation this summer. Nicholas Pratt examines the implications for fund managers.
There is a broad consensus that blockchain technology has the potential to play a major role in the industry’s operations. The only question is when, discovers Nicholas Pratt.
Calastone’s Vince Lucey tells Funds Europe why the industry needs to stop thinking of blockchain in purely technology terms and instead start considering how it can be applied to real-life problems.
Funds Europe talked to Paul Stillabower of RBC Investor & Treasury Services (RBC I&TS) about the future direction of the funds industry and the implications for today’s transfer agents.
