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Traders Magazine By Phil Lynch, Senior Go-To-Market Strategy Principal, SimCorp It is fair to say that asset and wealth managers have had a pretty rough ride in the last 24 months. There’s been intense competition led by industry-wide M&A, blending asset managers into a homogenous landscape difficult to carve a niche in. Then in 2020, a market event like no other, forcing firms to rethink operations across a remote workforce and face a more demanding investor base than ever before.  Phil Lynch, SimCorp In this new operating environment, where investor confidence is rattled and client...

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March 11, 2021 As part of its drive to turn off-the-shelf mobile devices into secure point-of-sale terminals using software as opposed to a dongle, MagicCube Inc. announced Thursday that its i-Accept application has expanded to Brazil. Acquiring banks and financial-technology service providers in Brazil can now enable merchants and retailers to accept contactless cards across all four major card networks, as well as capture financial PINs and other verification methods, without the need for additional hardware.  The move, which dovetails with an announcement by MagicCube earlier this week ...

Private Banking: Raising The Game Advertisement The Covid crisis is hastening banks’ adjustment to digital. But knowing a financial client is not the same as knowing a subscriber’s TV preferences. March 08, 2021 The digitalization of most things took another leap forward last year. That includes private banking along with other areas of financial services. “We’ve seen an acceleration of the online trend by three to eight years depending on how you look at it,” says Christian Zahn, partner and co-lead of McKinsey & Co.’s European wealth management practice. The pandemic year cataly...

From portfolio stress tests to RIA business intelligence, the merger will help Orion compete with Envestnet. Eleven years after co-founders Praveen Ghanta and Raj Udeshi quietly launched their risk analytics platform startup HiddenLevers, the pair now find themselves announcing their firm's acquisition by a far larger entity: Orion Advisor Solutions. After a long stretch of steady, organic platform development and customer growth, the plucky little Decatur, Ga.–headquartered HiddenLevers has won over thousands of individual advisors and made several key partnerships and customer wins ...