Asset managers should up their investment in blockchain technology in order to realise its benefits and not let the sell-side dictate how the technology develops.

Asset managers should up their investment in blockchain technology in order to realise its benefits and not let the sell-side dictate how the technology develops.
Funds Europe talked to Paul Stillabower of RBC Investor & Treasury Services (RBC I&TS) about the future direction of the funds industry and the implications for today’s transfer agents.
Funds Europe asked a panel of operations and technology experts for their views on the fund manager’s ops team of the future.
Nicholas Pratt examines the investment opportunities from emerging technology such as artificial intelligence, plus the potential risks.
Emerging technology like artificial intelligence and the blockchain have become an area of focus for ETF manufacturers and promoters, finds Nicholas Pratt.
Funds Europe talked to Metrosoft founder and chief executive Janusz Lorenc about the company’s beginnings and the future of the funds industry.
Europe ’s top fund centres are battling each other for the status of fundtech centre of choice. Nicholas Pratt asseses the competition.
A quarterly survey of financial services jobs in the UK already lost or likely to be lost because of Brexit has found that as many as 10,500 jobs could be relocated to continental Europe by March 2019, when the UK is set to leave the European Union.
The European funds industry is set this year to outperform its previous record year of 2015, according to figures published by the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
Financial advisers are split over the outlook for growth and defensive assets over the next 12 months, new research from Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has revealed.