Welcome

Capital Markets: How to Mitigate Risk in an Age of Uncertainty

Sponsored by InterSystems
Tuesday 24 November 2020, 12:30
Zoom

With external factors like the Coronavirus moving the global economy in increasingly erratic fashion, capital markets institutions are having to work harder than ever to make sure users - be they retail or institutional - can continue to trade without interruption.

Having operational resilience and risk mitigation strategies in place, coupled with stable and flexible technology, can mean the difference between beating the competition to contracts, maintaining public trust and staying on the right side of the regulator.

As real-time transactions become the expected norm and digital-only challengers reap the benefits of no legacy IT, the pressure for incumbents to upgrade their infrastructure is ramping up.

This virtual roundtable will bring together a relevant industry peers to discuss these challenges, as well as sharing best practice and looking at what the future holds.

Topics:

• COVID-19 – how can firms keep systems and processes running at full strength with a potentially depleted workforce who are no longer on site?
  
  
• Legacy systems – what can incumbent institutions do to upgrade systems and processes to ensure operational resilience and keep up with more agile competition?
  
  
• Regulation – how have recent rule changes impacted information governance and risk management within capital markets?
   
• Data management – what can be done to overcome problems of departmental data silos and a lack of communication between teams?
  
  
• Monetisation – what’s the best approach to leveraging the value of an institution’s customer data, while maintaining privacy?
  
  
• Digital transformation – as businesses rush to update systems and processes, what are the key things capital markets participants can do to survive the crisis and thrive in the future?

Timings:

12:30 – 12:40   Editor’s Welcome 
12:40 – 14:00   Topic Discussion

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