Review: CRS Audit Assessment Event
In this post I am reviewing a recent event on CRS Audit Assessment, held in Guernsey to mark the launch of the partnership between Centenal Legal Technology and Fusion Systems. A relationship that has been established following my introduction of these two technology companies Guernsey and Singapore. The main purpose of the event was to […]
Silverfleet acquires Microgen Financial Systems
Silverfleet Capital, the leading Pan-European private equity firm, announced completion of the deal to acquire Microgen Financial Systems Limited (MFS) on Monday 1st July 2019. The press release from Silverfleet can be viewed here. This follows the news back in March when Microgen plc (now renamed to Aptitude Software Group plc) stated their intention to […]
A Review of Core Systems for Trust Administration & Corporate Services
A 2019 review of leading information management systems serving offshore wealth management firms Updated on 25 March 2019, following Microgen demerger announcement. If you are a regular reader of my content, you will be aware that my main area of focus is offshore trust administration and corporate services (TA&CS). I often get asked, which is […]
Top 5 buying factors for Enterprise Software
Whatever size business you are, selecting the right enterprise software is a big decision that you want to get right. Your choice of core system is one that will impact your business for many years to come.
WealthWorks+ A New Wealth Management System
WealthWorks+ is being launched next month in the Channel Islands. It is described as “a brand new platform for private client professionals, built using the latest in responsive web technology”. Ever since Microgen Financial Systems started to buy up its smaller competitors, I’ve been arguing that there is a gap in the wealth systems market; […]
Where are you on your Digital Transformation journey?
What is Digital Transformation? The term Digital Transformation is used all over the place these days, with little agreement on what the term actually means. In this post I will describe what I believe the term covers. I will also describe the phases an organisation must go through on their transformation journey. Originally, digital transformation […]
What is a ‘data breach’?
A data breach doesn’t need to be a big headline grabbing event (think of some of the high profile breaches by the likes of Equifax, TalkTalk or Wonga) to do your organisation serious harm. In this blog I am going to cover what constitutes a data breach and what can you do to avoid them. […]
If Your Only Tool is a Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like a Nail
The concept known as the law of the instrument, otherwise known as the law of the hammer, Maslow’s hammer (or gavel), or the golden hammer, is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. As Abraham Maslow said in 1966, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is […]
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Why the GDPR Matters
I make no apologies for another blog on the subject of data, because I believe data is one of the most important subjects in both our personal and working lives at the moment. But first let’s talk about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. I was at a conference this week listening to a great keynote presentation […]
New Product: Triyo project collaboration software
According to the Gallup 2017 Digital Workplace Survey, 31% of senior executives state their biggest workplace challenge is the lack of “Cross-Departmental Collaboration”. The same survey reported that 33% of executives stated their biggest digital priority was “Enterprise Social / Real-Time Collaboration”. My experience working with organisations of different sizes is that enterprise wide collaboration […]
