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Navigating new and emerging technology trends in Anti-Money Laundering

Stagnant Systems and Evolving Regulatory Requirements

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  • Financial crime & compliance

Intro to Sionic Autumn 2023

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  • Asset & wealth management
  • Banking & markets
  • Customer experience
  • Financial crime & compliance
  • Insurance
  • People & organisational performance

Lighting a Torch: CCP Margin Transparency and Responsiveness

CCP Margin Transparency and Responsiveness

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  • Banking & markets

Correspondent Bank Roundtable

Evolving regulatory and technology landscape surrounding correspondent banking

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  • Financial crime & compliance

M&A Risk in the UK Wealth Management Market III

The biggest challenge: delivering the business case

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  • Asset & wealth management

Sionic ‘Operational Resilience Market Insights’ Survey 2023

The survey includes expert insight into firms’ progress on operational resilience programs

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  • Asset & wealth management

Sionic ‘Consumer Duty Market Insights’ Survey 2023

The survey includes expert insight on achieving a more outcome-focused approach in supporting consumers.

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  • Asset & wealth management

CCP Resolution Planning – Why You Shouldn’t Learn to Sail in a Storm

Why You Shouldn’t Learn to Sail in a Storm

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  • Banking & markets

Intro to Sionic Spring 2023

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  • Banking & markets
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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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  • Asset & wealth management

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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  • Asset & wealth management

The Road to T+1

As at February 15th 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has committed to a May 2024 implementation date […]

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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 & wealth management

EU Acclaim Magazine 2022

Sionic Managing Partner Gilly Green explains just what sets our award-winning expertise apart

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  • Asset & wealth management

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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  • Asset & wealth management

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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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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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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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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  • People & organisational performance

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 & wealth 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

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  • Banking & markets

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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  • People & organisational performance

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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  • Asset & wealth management

Equip yourself to lead in the new world of work: agenda

Leadership is about behaviour, not hierarchy

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  • People & organisational performance

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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  • People & organisational performance

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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  • Asset & wealth management

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

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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  • People & organisational performance

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 & wealth 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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  • People & organisational performance

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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  • People & organisational performance

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 & wealth 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
  • People & organisational performance

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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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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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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  • Asset & wealth management

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 & wealth management