Virtual Roundtable: 2021 Tech and Ops Trends in UK and Europe
Playback the discussion today.
Each year, we think collectively about the trends that we believe will shape the year ahead for our clients and the industry and publish our Outlook paper. In 2021, we explored new trends in UK and European asset management and discussed our perspectives in a virtual roundtable.
The roundtable covered lessons learned on the ground in 2020, Brexit, the rise of vertically integrated technology and services, new market entrants, and more.
Speakers
Paul Migliore, CEO
Paul has 30 years of experience providing investment management systems and operations consulting services to investment management firms, mutual fund complexes, and insurance companies. He has extensive business and systems expertise in portfolio management, investment accounting, fund accounting, and financial reporting. Prior to joining Citisoft, Paul was a partner in IBM’s US Investment Management Practice.
David Higgins, Managing Partner
David has over 22 years of experience delivering strategic change within the investment management industry and leads Citisoft’s EMEA practice. He has worked with asset managers, service providers, software vendors, and regulators throughout the world and has experience across the institutional, retail, wealth, and alternative sectors. David has extensive subject matter expertise across the investment management value-chain and has delivered recent strategic transformations for tier one clients across investments, operations, data, funds, distribution, reporting, regulatory and IT.
Greg Comiskey, Director
Greg is a Director with over 25 years’ experience in senior project management, business analysis and solutions architecture roles at investment firms in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Greg’s areas of business expertise include target operating models, business strategy, portfolio management and trading systems, data management, middle office, fund accounting and administration, business process outsourcing, investment performance and risk analysis, vendor/service management and post-merger/post-acquisition integration. Prior to joining Citisoft, Greg spent 10 years as a freelance consultant on implementations of major enterprise front office technology.