Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 market crash, ESG investing was followed by many clients who wished to direct the way that their portfolios were invested, driven by a desire to positively influence Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) progress. Investment firms considered some of the ESG factors as part of their basic company analysis, with some firms going further, focusing in depth on ESG factors and developing a range of ESG investment approaches.
New York City, September 21, 2021 – corfinancial®, a leading provider of specialist software and services to the financial services sector, announces today that after a highly competitive evaluation process the Department for International Trade (DIT), alongside the City of London Corporation, The Investment Association, and the Green Finance Institute, has selected BITA Risk® (part of the corfinancial group), and ten other UK-headquartered FinTech companies specializing in ESG and #sustainability to join a virtual trade delegation to an international climate summit in New York during September 2021.
The UK Department for International Trade is partnering with Climate Week NYC for a series of events concerning climate change from September 20th to 30th. The DIT will be showcasing BITA Risk’s award winning BITA WEALTH® software during the trade mission. BITA Wealth delivers a full spectrum of ESG Management capabilities to the advisor and investment manager.
A DIT spokesperson said: “These FinTechs have developed ground-breaking products and services that are already helping companies, investors, consumers, and regulators around the world overcome key challenges in ESG adoption.” Additionally, Daryl Roxburgh, President and Global Head of BITA Risk will be taking part in a roundtable discussion hosted by Rt Hon William Russell, Lord Mayor of London, on the future of financial services innovation as it applies to ESG. This roundtable will bring together FinTech experts from the UK and the US as well as ESG leaders in banking and asset management.
“ESG data, including carbon emissions, is key to investment management, whether viewed from client preference or investment risk and opportunity perspectives. Managing the complexities of this data and delivering bespoke, mass-customized solutions requires good FinTech. We are proud to be helping the transformation in investment transparency and are delighted that BITA Risk has been selected by the DIT for this historic event,” says Daryl Roxburgh.
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Last year, DTCC announced that it would decommission OASYS™ on 31 October 2021.
Man Group has been automating key post-trade processes, including trade confirmation and settlement for international securities, for many years using Salerio. It was, therefore, the natural solution to manage the migrating US trade confirmation workflow.
Salerio provides seamless connectivity to DTCC’s CTM platform and Man Group was able to manage the transition of US equity trades processing via OASYS to the CTM utility without the need for vendor support.
Antonio Dos Santos, Head of London Investment Operations at Man Group, said: “We wanted to ensure the continuity of our centralised post-trade processing in light of the changes soon being introduced by the DTCC. With Salerio’s rich workflow capabilities, the transition was a simple one and we moved most of our US equity traffic over to the Salerio CTM module with ease.”
David Veal, Senior Executive – Client Solutions at corfinancial, said: “Our post-trade processing solution is intuitive, making it easy for clients like Man Group to manage their operations with confidence. During 2020, we enhanced Salerio to ensure that it fully encompasses the changes being introduced by the DTCC that allows the processing of both US and international post-trade securities through the CTM service.”
Man Group uses Salerio to automate the management of securities post-trade processing and is expanding the use of Salerio to incorporate automation of foreign exchange processing. The investment management firm’s international growth has relied increasingly upon Salerio, which automates key middle office processes.
Salerio will also support Man Group’s CLS (Continuous Linked Settlement) netting – a standardised, automated bilateral payment netting service.
Richard Craske, Change Management Specialist at Man Group, said: “We have been a long-term user of Salerio to manage our trade confirmation and settlement. The high volume of our securities trading – that can reach in excess of 30,000 allocations per day – demands the very best in technology and Salerio has more than proved its worth. We now want to incorporate foreign exchange processing and CLS netting in the same, centralised processing model. With Salerio’s treasury modules in place we can continue to scale our operations efficiently, allowing our teams to focus on handling exceptions.”
Bruce Hobson, CEO at corfinancial, said: “We are delighted to have been selected by Man Group to bring further efficiencies to their post-trade processes. We look forward to Man Group extending the use of Salerio to incorporate FX processing, completing the treasury deployment during 2021.”
As clients take more interest in how their capital performs and the wider impact of their portfolios on society, investor demands are only going to grow. Effective software that can automate these complex processes lies at the heart of this mission.
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BITA Risk built its reputation on taking complex risk and portfolio data and making it highly accessible within its efficient portfolio management applications. Now it has applied this approach to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investment, automating many manual steps through exception management and integrating key data as part of the client profiling and investment processes.
Charles Stanley’s COO, Michael Bennett, commented: “BITA ESG Manager has taken the complexity of ESG factor data and presented it with such clarity that it can be efficiently managed and monitored across large numbers of our clients, forming an integral part of our investment strategy.”
Charles Stanley’s investment managers will benefit from detailed visualisations, helping them to understand exposures, check preference conflicts and assess the impact of ESG-driven changes on risk, yield and return.
Daryl Roxburgh, President and Global Head, BITA Risk: “Recognising a client’s ESG preferences and understanding asset exposures are key to effective portfolio management and analysis. Using exception management to identify any conflicts is the most efficient way of keeping a portfolio within mandate and this, together with innovative client reporting, is how BITA ESG Manager can manage the process with flexibility and on the scale required by Charles Stanley.”
Ian Murrin, CEO and Founder, Digiterre, said: “We are delighted to collaborate with corfinancial to help build a technology solution for investment managers who increasingly demand the integration of ESG factors into their investment processes. We look forward to providing advanced software and data engineering services to complement corfinancial’s deep domain knowledge and expertise in investment management. The end result is products that are both technically proficient and transformative in nature.”
corfinancial has been significantly investing in its flagship solutions in recent years, acknowledging that the software world needs niche firms like Digiterre with cutting edge skillsets that can help place a product ahead of the changing market demand.
Bruce Hobson, CEO, corfinancial, said: “Digiterre’s specialist data transformation skills and our understanding of what wealth management firms require in order to reduce manual processing and improve the client experience is a powerful combination. We look forward to further projects with Digiterre to ensure that our products are forward-looking and best-in-class.”
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is a post-trade financial services company providing clearing and settlement services to the financial markets. The firm has confirmed plans to decommission its OASYS™ solution by October 2021, resulting in the compulsory migration of users to its CTM™ processing model in order to continue the automated processing of US domestic trades.
DTCC recently announced that a small number of financial services technology providers have agreed to certify their interfaces in support of enhanced US trade flow capabilities in DTCC’s CTM™ service. Salerio is now a certified solution to facilitate the transition away from OASYS, having successfully completed its conformance testing with DTCC.
David Veal, Senior Executive, Client Solutions, corfinancial: “Working as an early adopter partner with DTCC throughout the second half of this year ensured that we were well prepared for the modifications that they were applying to their CTM utility. Salerio has been updated with the OASYS parity functionality. Our solution is quick to implement, due to our standard model approach, fully functional CTM connectivity and workflow,” added Veal. “Salerio clients that require this functionality ahead of the October 2021 deadline are good to go.”
