“We were able to leverage Control to create an efficient account reconciliation method which produces timely reporting throughout the cycle. Additionally, the digitisation of the reconciliation process has significantly shortened our reconciliation timeline, tightened controls, and increased the productivity of reconcilers by allowing more time for exception resolution.”
Data aggregation
data aggregation
Investment managers face key challenges acquiring, validating, normalising and enriching data required for reconciliation, fee billing and other workflows. Maintaining direct links with multiple data providers increases risk and reduces staff productivity as business complexity and volumes grow.
Gresham's Data Services provides a comprehensive source for accurate, reliable data consolidation across securities, cash positions, transactions and trade failures. Serving buy-side managers, wealth managers and service providers, it collects and validates over 4,500 unique data feeds from 1,500+ global sources at any frequency, regardless of format or protocol.
With this centralised service, firms optimise data quality while minimising provider touchpoints, enabling staff to focus on core activities instead of data acquisition and wrangling.
Outsourced reconciliation
outsourced reconciliation
Inefficient, error-prone processes combined with rising data volumes and reconciliation load stress operations teams. Traditional options like hiring, infrastructure investments, training or full outsourcing are expensive with questionable long-term value and potential risks.
Gresham's Managed Services provide a flexible, cost-effective alternative by right-sourcing crucial reconciliation components like data collection and normalisation. We function as an extension of your operations, providing access to dedicated experts comprehensively covering your entire reconciliation process. Leverage our highly-skilled reconciliation professionals to augment your team's capabilities without the overhead of additional full-time staff.
Automated reconciliation
automated reconciliation
Outdated workflows, erroneous data, manual effort and delayed exceptions cause unnecessary operational risks and costs in reconciliation processes. As complexity and volumes rise, the lack of automation burdens firms with low productivity and constrained scaling ability to meet investor and front-office demands.
We help buy-side firms and service providers reduce risk and drive efficiencies across reconciliation, exception management and the entire post-trade process. Gresham's purpose-built buy-side Control solution automates reconciliations, empowering you to focus resources on strengthening differentiation and scalability rather than tedious reconciliation tasks. Gain capacity through intelligent automation while mitigating operational hazards.
Operational efficiency
operational efficiency
Reconciling in spreadsheets, generic platforms or siloed environments lacks effective middle or back-office support, creating inefficiencies, redundancies, risks and errors as trade volumes and investment strategy complexity increase. The need rises for a more efficient, collaborative solution reducing manual labour through buy-side specific automation.
Gresham's Control for investment management improves operational efficiency by intelligently integrating relevant data across departments - reconciliation, accounting, finance, corporate actions, collateral, settlements, securities lending and treasury or cash management. It provides the scalability, transparency and collaboration middle and back-offices need to quickly adapt to shifts in trading strategies and asset classes while mitigating operational risks through intelligent automation.
Streamlined client fee billing
streamlined client fee billing
Managing fee billing through spreadsheets or limited automation platforms becomes costly as portfolio complexity increases. Outdated processes negatively impact profitability, especially if inaccuracies lead to fines, reputational damage or lost revenue. We streamline operations to improve invoicing speed and accuracy, cash flows and client service.
Gresham's Control for fee billing provides automated fee calculations, billing automation, invoicing analysis, accounting and reporting. Benefit from an intuitive, integrated, workflow-based client fee billing process eliminating manual touchpoints with custodians. Enhance client experience while reducing operational, compliance, reputational risks and costs through intelligent automation.
Is your firm's fee billing process damaging your client relationships?
While controlling the compliance risks associated with client fee billing is crucial, providing the best possible client experience is just as important. For investment managers, that means ensuring the highest levels of accuracy, consistency and transparency across the fee billing process – from fee calculations and invoicing, to client communications and reporting.
Solving buy-side investment managers' corporate actions data challenge
For decades, there has been significant interest in automating corporate actions processing across the buy-side community. Meanwhile, the global pandemic’s impact on corporate actions has been significant as firms faced fluctuating timelines and high processing volumes amid cancelled dividends, shifted schedules, postponed mergers and acquisitions, and frequent trading halts and restrictions. Collecting corporate actions data should be trivial, but many investment managers still struggle with the process in today's world.