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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
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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

Shelley Doorey Williams writes on Board Governance & Effectiveness

Sionic Partner Shelley Doorey-Williams writes about Board effectiveness and governance in her new piece for November 2020 edition of ICSA (The Chartered […]

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  • Wealth management & private banking

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

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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

Sionic FundFinance 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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  • Banking & markets

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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  • Financial crime & compliance

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