A suite of Climate Change Risk Management models for Banks and Asset Managers
Background In December 2015 in Paris, 196 national governments agreed to work to keep the global average temperature below 2°C above the preindustrial revolution mean and targeted under 1.5°C above that level. It has since become clear that even this would not be enough to avoid some of the more severe impacts of climate change. […]
Global fund data warehouse
The challenge With an IT infrastructure which had been built up over 25 years, the firm had several platforms in siloes to business/product lines and specific to distribution channels. With 9 separate environments maintaining product and asset data, operational overhead in managing and aggregating data gave rise to significant operational overhead and latency in creating […]
COVID-19: Navigate the exit from lockdown
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a truly unique impact. Economies worldwide have all but shut down as governments have sought to halt the spread of the virus and prevent potentially disastrous consequences by locking down and imposing social distancing measures on their populations. Not since the Black Death has a disease so profoundly switched off […]
Programmes in Product-based organisations is not an oxymoron
This thought leadership article is based on our experience supporting many leading global Asset Managers in their new ‘ways of working’ to eliminate waste, reduce handoffs and become more responsive and relevant to their customers. Let us be pragmatic on what a ‘Product’ is in the context of an Asset Manager – what is the […]
Portfolio Management
In this article you will find perspectives from Holley Holland’s experiences helping a large Global Bank’s Portfolio management function to rediscover new ways of working. The article brings insights from practices and lessons learnt in a number of areas including outcome orientation thinking and planning, value based prioritisation, balanced value stream based MVP funding models, […]
IT and technology for global business
The challenge With an IT infrastructure which had been built up over 25 years, the firm had many platforms siloed to business lines and specific to customer channels. With 9 separate ways for the firm to enter its financial securities data – one single repository was need to avoid duplication and error. The firm needed […]