Technology is touching every aspect of finance, transforming decades-old practices and redefining core tasks. In our Disruption in Financial Services series, we explore how new tools and technologies are changing the business of finance and reshaping how financial professionals do their jobs. Disruption in Financial Services: Big Tech’s Move into Finance Is Raising Regulatory Hackles
Outsourced Investment Management: Choosing the “Right” OCIO A growing number of institutional investors are seeking to improve cost efficiency, governance, and investment decision-making by outsourcing their investment management to an outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO). In what Institutional Investor describes as an OCIO “earthquake,” assets under full or partial management by OCIOs have risen to over $1.6 trillion and are anticipated to exceed $2
Technology is touching every aspect of finance, transforming decades-old practices and redefining core tasks. In our new series, Disruption in Financial Services, we explore how new tools and technologies are changing the business of finance and reshaping how financial professionals do their jobs. Disruption in Financial Services Fintech Is Shaking Up The Sleepy World
Learning Trend 5: Wired for Speech Each decade has brought with it a new interface to interact with our computers and electronic devices. Where once we typed into a command line beside a blinking green cursor, today we use a mouse with a visual graphical user interface or swipe, tap and pinch our commands into
Learning Trend 4: Big Data and Learning Analytics Uncovering useful knowledge from the data we collect has been happening for some time now, at least since the 90s but when the term ‘Big Data’ entered the Oxford Dictionary in 2013, the ‘big’ that set this data apart referred to a volume, speed and complexity of
Learning Trend 3: Social Learning Comes of Age This trend has been through some ups and down over the last number of years. Social and collaborative learning gained some traction from expectations that everything would become social, paralleling the power of social at the consumer level, then followed by the ‘reality check’ of the complexities
Learning Trend 2: Personalization & Adaptive Learning One of the components that contributes to a learning experience is another major learning trend bounding ahead in 2019: Personalization and adaptive learning. This trend continues to grow in importance, stemming from a combination of factors, such as the working environment: being short on time to learn and
Listening – An Undervalued Skill That Brings Results In today’s exponentially challenging workplace, communication skills are crucial. You need to communicate at all levels, to your department, team, staff, and clients; yes, skillful communication is a no brainer. But an often neglected side to skillful communication is listening. Listening is an innate part of everything
What’s An Unprofitable Business Worth? Valuing High-Growth, Loss-Making Companies Recent IPOs by high-growth, loss-making businesses such as Lyft and Uber have highlighted a sharp divide among investors over a simple question: What is a company worth? For traditional or value investors, a company’s value is a function of its current and historical
Goodbye LIBOR: Industry Planning For The End of LIBOR Accelerates As regulators escalate their calls for financial firms to plan for the discontinuation of LIBOR, industry bodies are working to ensure that the transition to a post-LIBOR world is smooth. At the center of efforts in derivatives markets is the International Swaps and Derivatives Association
