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A formula for fund returns?

Martin Scott, CEO and founder of Core Fund Services reimagines Einstein’s E = mc² for fund performance, stating speed to market - red tape = better fund returns

The climbing Cayman Islands

As reforms and regulations make their way across the island territory, are things beginning to ramp up or cool down for fund managers?

The rise of direct lending

Following their recent white paper, MUFG Investor Services’ Treabhor Mac Eochaidh and Des Fullam speak to Justin Lawson about the meteoric rise of direct lending

Are rightful returns on securities being left to languish?

Stephen Everard, CEO of TaxTec, considers how technology can help improve the efficiency of withholding tax reclamation on foreign securities and drive portfolio returns

Working together

The payments industry plays a pivotal role in asset servicing, but there remain serious challenges — including money laundering — to overcome

A change is brewing

Following on from International Women’s Day on 8 March, it is time to start questioning why, for women in financial services, the numbers are still not adding up

Preparations for T+1 and the eventual Capital Markets Union will continue to preoccupy Europe’s Central Securities Depositories through 2025. The bigger story, however, will be the use of new technology

Margin replication and simulation

Arcesium’s Himanshu Bagri, product lead, Treasury Suite, and Ashley Bell, vice president, Financial Operations, look at the importance of timely margin calculations when managing risk