The Drawdown Article – CTOs: Dealing with (unfair?) pressure
This article featured in The Techwork 2022 Report. CTOs and COOs in Alts/Private Capital are coming under ‘unfair’ pressure as complexity is growing faster than AUM. Since everything is digital, ‘everything’ lands in the CTO or COO’s lap. Alex Tyler and Ingolv Urnes of psKINETIC look at the challenges and successful ‘coping’ strategies. “We want […]
Fund Setup Process – Messy bottlenecks preventing scale?
For many ambitious Alts or Private Capital firms, a slow and hard-to-coordinate fund setup process is causing ripple effects: It risks slowing down capital raising, it can prevent investment teams from taking advantage of market opportunities, and it creates havoc for finance and operations. As the industry is maturing and fee income is becoming an […]
International Women’s Day 2022
For international women’s Day this year, we are proudly supporting the #BreakTheBias campaign. A campaign that has been established to highlight and eradicate gender bias in the workplace. To discuss this, we sat down with Zahra our Senior Tech Lead and one of the many immensely talented women who work with us here at psKINETIC. […]
Using Automation To Unify Middle, Back Office and Compliance In Wealth Management
Nowadays, in Wealth Management, there seems to be a huge amount of general information on middle and back office. Compliance is a fundamental part of the data flow but where does it sit and how? Traditionally, compliance would sit in middle office with risk management, corporate treasury, corporate strategy, financial control and finally compliance. However, […]
Accelerating Your Business With Intelligent Document Processing
Where to Start?We began our journey into Intelligent Document Processing with a large healthcare contract 8 years ago. The challenge was to extract doctors’ instructions and clinical data out of long and messy letters. This was before practical availability of powerful machine learning algorithms (very different from today where there is too much choice or…noise […]
Are you still running your own Appian Landscape? We can help with that…
We have 12+ years of experience as an Appian service providerAre you still running your own Appian landscape? Moving to Appian’s Cloud model is the right ambition but is easier said than done. You may want to leverage your hosting capability, you may have an Azure or GCP strategy, or specific security/data privacy requirements that […]
Increasing Regulation and Client Onboarding, A Growing Challenge for Wealth Managers
Wealth managers are increasingly under pressure to keep up with the evolving regulatory landscape. The onboarding process is an area affected by many compliance rules due to the information obtained from institutional investors at the time of onboarding and the data held thereafter. Amidst these growing regulatory pressure and shrinking profit margins due to added […]
How To Get On Top Of Compliance
Since the financial crisis and with the onset of the global pandemic, the FCA has progressively brought in stricter, more complex governance for financial institutions. Failure to demonstrate appropriate governance, controls, and compliance in their regulatory reporting framework exposes banks to heavy fines. These fines can have both a financial and reputational impact which can […]
5 Key Areas Of Compliance In Banking
Hybrid Work Environments With the banking sector starting to return to some form of normality, it has become apparent that big decisions are being made about new ways of working. With the UK and much of the world witnessing mass branch closures, many are considering what the new work environment will look like both internally […]
Embedded Insurance – Don’t Let Technology Slow You Down
Everyone now seems to be talking about launching embedded insurance propositions are there are already several players focusing on the obvious plays of flight delay cover, unpaid invoice cover and even loss of income bundled with the sale of bikes for delivery riders. So you want to get on the embedded insurance bandwagon, it’s estimated […]
Unifying Middle, Back Office and Compliance With Automation
Nowadays, there seems to be a huge amount of general information on banking middle and back office. Alongside that is compliance, where does it sit, and how? Traditionally, compliance would sit in middle office with risk management, corporate treasury, corporate strategy, financial control and finally compliance. However, this is starting to change due to the […]
psKINETIC Announces Contract Win With PIB Group
psKINETIC is pleased to announce it has been selected by specialist insurance intermediary PIB Group as its chosen technology partner, to help deliver a new state of the art, workflow automation platform. The agreement follows a search by PIB Group for a flexible yet robust intelligent automation platform, that will enable them to scale their […]