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122 white papers and resources
Top Three Triggers to Detect Window Dressing
This white paper examines the top three triggers for window dressing and portfolio pumping. It further provides recommendations firms should abide by to instil investor confidence and ensure global regulatory compliance.
Harvard Business Review: Living in GDPR's World
Harvard Business Review provides a fresh take on GDPR in its new report, “Living in GDPR’s World: How Companies Can Survive and Thrive under a Demanding New Set of Data Privacy Rules.”
Blockchain Potential in Financial Services - Video Highlights
This animated video provides highlights from an exclusive survey from WatersTechnology, in association with SmartStream. It surveyed a diverse mix of personnel and aimed to assess the industry’s state of readiness around blockchain and to identify the significant challenges to adoption still at…
Unfinished Business - Measuring Blockchain’s Financial Services Benefits and Mapping Its Future
This white paper examines the results of a recent survey conducted by WatersTechnology in association with SmartStream. It aimed to assess the industry’s state of readiness around DLTs and to identify the significant challenges to adoption still at hand.
Building a Scalable, Auditable Valuation and Pricing Process - How automation can reduce risk and improve controls in month-end pricing and valuation
This white paper explores the dangers and hidden risks of performing critical calculations with customized spreadsheets. It further examines how organisations can increase automation to reduce risk, and improve controls in a strategic way.
Putting Data Analytics to Work in Energy Trading
This paper will look at trading across the energy spectrum, a few of the key prerequisites of a successful energy trading company today in the current high-stakes, time-sensitive environment and how one can best utilise data analytics to make sense of everything.
The Importance of Real-Time Forward Curves - Leveraging Technological Advances to Manage Risk
This white paper examines the importance of real-time forward curves. It further explores potential solutions that will aid traders, analysts and risk managers in addressing their needs for real-time and easy-to-use price curve tools.
The Business Case for Managing End User Computing
This white paper examines why end user computing (EUC) applications exist in modern businesses, exploring the issues of risk, reputation and cost overheads. It further considers the returns to be gained by implementing formal approaches to the management of EUC, including the use of…
Blockchain—Next Steps on a Journey
How will today’s market infrastructure and data processing providers react to ledgers—the very innovation that, some evangelists say, could ultimately subsume them? This white paper explores the latest developments.
Optimising Data Lakes for Financial Services: Four key questions and a word of warning
This white paper explores key data lake questions and proposes a number of ways to tackle the implementation challenges. It goes on to further examine different ways you can optimise the data lake to ensure it fulfils its desired function.