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Clients Expect Service Consistency, but Can Fund Administrators Deliver?
Delivering quality client service in investment management is no longer just about richness and responsiveness. Consistency is imperative too, especially in an increasingly multi-asset class world. But providing that service consistency is a big problem, one we hear a lot about from fund administration clients and prospects. Take a common scenario. A fund manager works […]
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Can Fund Administrators Weather a Looming Wage Inflation Storm?
If ever there was a time for fund administrators to ramp up automation of their end-to-end operations, this is surely it. Firms’ cost bases have been under concerted pressure for years as the global fund administration industry wrestles with ever tightening margins. Resurgent inflation though is upping the ante. Inflation outpaces wage rises … for […]
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Regulatory Compliance and the Fight against Climate Change
Anti-money laundering (AML) and tax compliance capabilities may seem to have little to do with the battle to curb climate change. But, applied well, they have become an important weapon. The recent COP27 gathering – on the back of a year of record-breaking temperatures, floods, drought and storms – has underscored the need for radical […]
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How Regulatory Pressures are Forcing Compliance Teams to Do More with Less
Doing more with less. It’s not an appealing prospect, but that is the hard reality facing financial institutions’ compliance teams. Compliance risks and responsibilities continue to swell, driven by never-ending regulatory change. The speed and number of sanctions implemented in response to the war in Ukraine has further increased the pressure on resources, observed Thomson […]
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New DAC8 Regulation Puts Murky Crypto-Asset World Under EU Tax Spotlight
Nowhere to hide. That’s the goal behind new tax transparency obligations for crypto-assets being planned by the European Union through DAC8. Concerned that global tax transparency improvements achieved through the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will be undermined by crypto-assets, the OECD has been developing proposals for a […]
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New Crypto Rules Add to Financial Institutions’ Global Tax Reporting Duties: Are You Ready?
FATCA and CRS are set to have a new tax transparency reporting compatriot: the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF). Government officials and tax authorities around the world are concerned that because crypto-assets can be transferred and held without using a traditional financial intermediary and with no central administrator visibility, global tax transparency gained through measures such […]
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