The Future of Finance

Contributor: Franck Rossi, Product Manager Low interest rates and a derivatives market worth $600 billion dollars is creating significant opportunities. Banks prepared to expose themselves to increased levels of risk in exchange for higher returns are showing plenty of appetite. Our ‘Openness’ initiative responds to this market requirement, and will provide structuring functionality to all [...]

The arrival of Solvency II will throw up a number of challenges for the insurance industry. Data management and the valuation of assets and liabilitiesare two of the hurdles the sector will have to clear in order to achieve compliance.

This post is the third in Risk in the Market's Innovation series. The next two posts in this series will focus on our drive to increase compatibility between our products, the initiatives that have come out of this, and the impact they have had on our products.

This is the second of a two-part interview with Sebastien Jacquet, Thomson Reuters' product manager for K+ TP, where he discusses the problems faced by many banks trying to extend their use of lifecycle automation and straight-through processing (STP) and the main strategic goals for successful STP across different asset classes and business units. Click here to read the first part of the STP interview.

The fifth instalment of our series on Solvency II will take look at the challenges associated with generating market consistent valuations for assets and liabilities.