Following the merger of Microgen and Touchstone, the combined business has announced its new name and brand as TrustQuay The announcement was made in a press release on Monday 1st June 2020. TrustQuay has become the leading provider of technology to the trust and corporate services market, serving more than 450 clients and 15,000 users […]
Transformational change
Why Electronic Signatures should be the norm
In a world where so much is now digital are you still relying on ‘wet ink’ signatures? Whether you need to get signatures from clients, or you have internal processes requiring a signature, there are likely to be many benefits of going digital. Writing this article in April 2020, the majority of your colleagues and […]
Technology tips to help manage your remote working teams
Over the last couple of weeks nearly all of us have adapted our ways of working. I’m not going to pretend to know exactly what to do right now or have all the answers. Any one who does is either lying or deluded! What we can do is apply the lessons of what worked in […]
The impact of the Coronavirus crisis on Meaning and Purpose
Written by Tim Rogers, Associate Consultant Solitaire Consulting Ltd We are very often defined by what we do. We do not say he or she does accountancy we say they are an accountant. We even define ourselves by what we do. We would not say I do triathlon, but we might say I am a […]
Five WealthTech Predictions for 2020
WealthTech is the application of technology to support the wealth management industry. It can be considered as being part of the much broader umbrella term of FinTech. In the context of this article I am considering WealthTech specifically as it relates to the offshore wealth management sector. This includes trust and fund administration companies and […]
Microgen & Touchstone complete merger
Microgen Financial Services and Touchstone Wealth Management announce the completion of their merger. This follows full clearance from all relevant authorities. The deal was first announced in November 2019, which followed a period of due diligence by Silverfleet Capital. Silverfleet have provided the funding for the merger. Read more on my blog from 25 November. […]