Signals is our thought leadership networking service. Through surveys and forums, it brings together those with strategic roles to share experiences and discuss common challenges to enrich their planning and development activities.
The Asset & Wealth Management practice has developed the first community aimed at CTOs, CIOs, Heads of Technology, CDOs, and COOs with technology responsibilities with topics selected by the participants.
Previous Events
Thursday, Mar 21, 2024
We had an exciting discussion on data governance, comparing how we progressed from our very first Signals event in 2019, which covered this. We focussed on the following themes:
- Is ‘traditional’ Data Governance failing?
- What does it take to deliver data governance excellence?
- New technology and vendor solutions – can they help propel data solutions?
21 September 2023
Our agenda was led by a panel of experts from across Davies focusing on some topical distribution challenges:
- How are you sourcing data for Client Engagement & Service Delivery, and who is responsible?
- How are you handling ESG in your client reports, RFPs and factsheets?
- Are you maximising data insights and success metrics?
- Are your clients’ getting the best Onboarding experience?
- Are you considering your overall Client Experience (CX) in the context of consumer duty?
Signals roundtable discussion on tokenisation within the Asset Management space. We heard from Ricky Maloney, DLT lead within Davies’ Asset & Wealth Management team, along with guest speakers from Archax and State Street.
We explored:
- Tokenisation opportunities for the Buy Side
- Digital Assets, launch, lifecycle and custody
- Market insights on tokenisation
- Panel discussion around presentation themes, survey findings and Q&A
We are observing growing interest among the asset management community in the ever-evolving Managed Data Services in both market data management and operational (IBOR / ABOR) data divisions. Insight into both Buy Side & Sell Side trends was obtained from survey findings with the aim to explore:
- The breadth of provider services available
- Current usage of MDS by asset managers and demand for future use
- The extent to which MDS can solve asset managers’ data challenges
We are seeing surging demand for the data platform; it is cloud agnostic and can be used instead of or in conjunction with cloud providers’ native tools and services. We looked at:
- The extent of usage of Snowflake by asset managers, owners, and their service providers
- How Snowflake is being used and for what use cases
- What benefits are being and could be derived.
With increased regulatory attention, Operational Resilience is becoming a growing point of focus across the Asset Management industry. This has been further accelerated by the challenges of the past 12 months and as firms strategise for 2021, and beyond. This forum explored a number of key themes relating to Operational Resilience from a technology perspective:
- Operational Resilience Programme state of readiness
- Key threats to your Operational Resilience
- Identifying potential material harms, e.g. cyber attack
- Embedding better resilience and oversight, including home working
- The future of Business Continuity Plans, including Disaster Recovery
- Determining the scope across your ecosystem, including key supplier
- The extent that firms introduce business-enabled IT
- How firms managing the inherent risks
- How the IT function is adapting to ensure it is a service-orientated, business enabler
- The potential impact and evolution on the IT organisational structure and the sourcing of IT professionals: is IT becoming more federated?
- Exploring the extent of adoption of different solutions and data governance frameworks
- What has been implemented by asset managers to-date
- Levels of success
- Lessons learnt
To find out more about Signals, please contact Clare Vincent-Silk.
