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What does it take to be a ‘virtual’ leader?

Sionic Partner Richard Bidder explores the current acceleration of ‘The Digital Bank’ and discusses how to approach leadership in a rapidly changing world

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  • Coronavirus
  • Learning & development

Coronavirus: impact on markets and business 2nd instalment

Our newly updated Coronavirus COVID-19 briefing looks at what has changed for people, business and markets in just two weeks

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  • Coronavirus
  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Group risk & capital

Sionic- coronavirus briefing

Managing Partner Xavier Pujos highlights the potential financial risks and impacts of the Coronavirus outbreak

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  • Coronavirus
  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Group risk & capital

2020 Mudlark Vision

Sionic Chairman Tony Solway features in CISI Members’ Magazine The Review

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  • Asset management
  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Asset management

Sionic Fund Finance data sheet

FundFinance is the latest in Sionic’s new suite of AI and machine-learning tools developed by our specialist Data & Technology […]

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  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Data & technology

Diversity & Inclusion Charter

Senior partners and staff from around the world committed Sionic to our new Diversity & Inclusion Charter in February 2020. […]

Sionic – FundFinance

We’ve created a suite of AI-assisted portfolio and risk management tools for fund finance lenders

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  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Data & technology
  • Finance & fund administration

LIBOR to RFR Utility Model

Our new LIBOR to RFR Utility Model is global, scalable and flexible

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  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Group risk & capital
  • Regulatory change, compliance & control

Brexit scenarios

Catalyst’s simple schematic summarises the most likely Brexit scenarios as at 8th January 2019 – a week before Parliament’s expected ‘meaningful vote’ on the EU Withdrawal Agreement.

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  • Regulatory change, compliance & control

A perfect storm for the future of dealing

A number of complex factors are converging to create a potential ‘perfect storm’, likely to drive strategic change for the dealing function.

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  • Asset management
  • Asset management

T-shaped technologists — a manifesto for the new career reality

Today’s technology career models (if they even exist) are failing financial services (FS) firms. Paul Butler and Mark Brotherwood discuss a new manifesto for technologists in financial services. Download our white paper to learn more

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  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Data & technology
  • Learning & development

High performing technologists

Initial findings from new research shows banks face major challenges attracting, retaining and motivating the very best technologists. Download our white paper to learn more

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  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Data & technology
  • Learning & development

SFTR Securities Financing Transaction Regulation – changes and challenges to address now

SFTR is due to hit users of securities financing, including those lending securities, and the wider collateral markets in just over a year’s time. Download our white paper to learn more

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  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Regulatory change, compliance & control

Market data services flash survey findings

In 2017 we completed a ‘flash survey’ among our clients to assess their use and experience of market data providers – for the provision of index data, security reference data, prices and fundamental data. Download our white paper to learn more

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  • Asset management
  • Asset management
  • Data & technology

Risk culture — six steps to success

We believe it’s time to take a strategic approach to tackling the fundamental underlying issues that surfaced in the banking crisis

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  • Corporate & investment banking
  • Group risk & capital
  • Learning & development

Digital and the role of the transfer agent

Over the past year the term ‘Digital’ has invaded Asset Management terminology without a clear definition of what it is and what it means. What is digital and is it the end of the traditional role of the transfer agent? Download our white paper to learn more

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  • Asset management
  • Asset management
  • Data & technology

Wealth management technology

There are some aggressive statistics being bandied about wealth management just now. Apparently, social media and mobile technology is about to transform the industry as we know it. So, are we really on the cusp of a technical revolution? Advice for technology vendors to the wealth industry. Down load our white paper to learn more

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  • Wealth management
  • Data & technology
  • Wealth management & private banking

If you’re thinking about outsourcing, do it right

In a recent survey conducted by Knadel, wealth management firms were asked about their business operating models. It came as no surprise to hear that more and more of you are choosing to outsource business functions, but what was surprising was the extent of the outsourcing that is being undertaken. Download our white paper and learn more

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  • Wealth management
  • Wealth management & private banking

Wealth manager business barometer

The wealth management industry in the UK has been subject to an unprecedented level of change over the last five years. Gilly Green reports on changes affecting business operating models based on our surveys among wealth management firms and providers of outsourced services to wealth managers. Down load our white paper to learn more

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  • Wealth management
  • Operations
  • Wealth management & private banking

Dear CEO – a view on risk migration

The ‘Dear CEO’ letter on outsourcing issued by the FSA (now FCA) in December 2012 was prompted by the regulator’s concerns around the deficiencies and inconsistencies exhibited by the asset manager community around their management and oversight of material outsourcing relationships. Download this white paper to learn more

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  • Asset management
  • Asset management
  • Operations