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M&A Risk in the UK Wealth Management Market II
Mind the information gap: how to avoid deal value degradation
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- Wealth management & private banking
KYC Managed Services
Risks, considerations and how to get it right
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- Banking & markets
M&A Risk in the UK Wealth Management Market
Wealth management expert Niall Buggy examines market complexities for any CEO considering an acquisition
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- Wealth management & private banking
The Road to T+1
On February 24th, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published in the Federal Register (Vol. 87, No.37) its […]
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- Banking & markets
A Strategic Approach to Client Lifecycle Management
Sionic are experts in Client Lifecycle Management (CLM)
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- Banking & markets
Crypto custody: same game, new roles – or a whole new world?
Pitfalls and priorities for braving the digital age
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- Banking & markets
- Financial crime & compliance
The Future of Client Reporting
We are at the start of a surge in digitalisation in client communication
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- Asset management
EU Acclaim Magazine 2022
Sionic Managing Partner Gilly Green explains just what sets our award-winning expertise apart
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- Wealth management & private banking
Sionic Operational Resilience Market Insights Survey 2022
Our study offers detailed insights into the key challenges of incoming FCA PRA regulation
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- Wealth management & private banking
Regulating Markets in Crypto-assets – How Mighty is MiCA?
We look at the EU regulation aiming to turn the wild West crypto-into a trusted trading environment
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- Financial crime & compliance
High Performing Teams infographic
This infographic summarises the Sionic High Performance Model created by banking change expert Paul Butler from our Learning & Development […]
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- Learning & development
High Performing Teams
Written by banking change expert Paul Butler from Sionic’s Learning & Development team, this whitepaper discusses how leaders in any […]
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- Learning & development
Real estate and crypto-currency clients: do you really know your customers?
Find out how a digital approach to the five fundamentals of AML creates good business, confident compliance, and trusted client relationships
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- Financial crime & compliance
Equip to lead infographic
Equip to lead is a unique leadership programmes for financial services, based on our industry-leading specialism in learning and development
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- Learning & development
Building a Leading Technology Engineering Culture in Financial Services
Engineering culture is the #1 way to unlock productivity and value in your technology organisation: but why? And what can you do about it?
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- Learning & development
Why the time is now for accelerating the settlement cycle
Reducing risk in securities clearance & settlement
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- Banking & markets
Corporate action risk mitigation
How to minimise risk and maximise performance in a post pandemic world
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- Asset management
- Banking & markets
Sionic discusses Corporate Actions with the Asset Servicing Times Issue 264
In this article for the Asset Servicing Times (edn 264, pp 14 – 17) Sionic Partner and Corporate Actions expert […]
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- Banking & markets
SIFMA Sources 2021
We’re delighted to feature in this new directory of leading consultants to the securities and financial industry
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- Banking & markets
Sionic’s KYC Managed Service for Exchanges and CCPs
Billion-dollar fines, spiralling frustration and clients facing jail – or compliant KYC, new revenue streams and satisfied clients?
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- Banking & markets
EU Anti Money Laundering directives: a summary
When it comes to new threats and dangers, protecting clients is a priority
Equipping leaders to sustain performance
There is a massive opportunity to create a healthier work/life balance for people whilst unlocking motivation and discretionary effort
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- Learning & development
Sionic European WealthBriefing award winners: Acclaim magazine
Read what puts our Wealth Management & Private Banking in a different league from the competition
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- Wealth management & private banking
Equip yourself to lead in the new world of work: agenda
Leadership is about behaviour, not hierarchy
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- Learning & development
Fraud prevention: a question of ethics
How compatible are fraud prevention, compliance and human behaviour?
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- Financial crime & compliance
When did artificial intelligence get so clever – and what can humans learn from machines?
Despite its topicality, AI is not new
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- Financial crime & compliance
Business Operating Models in the New Paradigm
Is it time to reassess your business priorities?
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- Financial crime & compliance
What’s in a name? Why consistent financial product classification and identification is vital for reporting efficiency and risk reduction
The financial market is now at a breakneck pace of regulatory, internal management and disclosure change
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- Financial crime & compliance
What does the future hold? Why horizon scanning is the most effective response to a changing regulatory landscape
As 2020 has so deftly illustrated, the finance industry operates in a world subject to change at extraordinary pace
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- Financial crime & compliance
Learning to learn: why you’re not learning as much or as often as you should
Sionic Partner Paul Butler explores why, and how firms can learn to be learning organisations
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- Learning & development
Post-pandemic strategic leadership in wealth management – how to set the right direction?
COVID-19 has had a lasting impact on every sector. No-one knows exactly what happens next. So where to start – and how to set the right direction?
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- Wealth management & private banking
Coronavirus: from rescue to recovery
Our third briefing paper explores rescue and recovery: the consequences of pandemic and the potential of ESG for future financial stability
Back to work – or forwards to a better future?
We’re advising leaders in financial services how to navigate to the new normal beyond Coronavirus COVID-19
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- Wealth management & private banking
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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- 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
Sionic- coronavirus briefing
Managing Partner Xavier Pujos highlights the potential financial risks and impacts of the Coronavirus outbreak
2020 Mudlark Vision
Sionic Chairman Tony Solway features in CISI Members’ Magazine The Review
Diversity & Inclusion Charter
We strive to cultivate a dynamic, diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, valued and that they belong.
LIBOR to RFR Utility Model
Our new LIBOR to RFR Utility Model is global, scalable and flexible
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- Financial crime & compliance
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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- Financial crime & compliance
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
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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- 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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- 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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- Banking & markets
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
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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- Banking & markets
- 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
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 & private banking
If you’re thinking about outsourcing, do it right
In a recent survey conducted by Knadel, 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
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- 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 & 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