Author: Eva Keogan

New podcast: How does innovation happen in the Investment Management industry?

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It’s December and we are pleased to share a new episode of the Reseo State of the Art podcast, and our final one of this year.

We are ending 2024 on a high note with an exciting conversation about innovation in the industry, which spans regulation, ESG, AI, and even Space.

Pierre Yves-Rahari is on hand to kick start the conversation, with his first set of questions: How do the best innovators in the industry operate? Do they create as individuals, or are they championed by corporations, or a combination of both? Is there any correlation with the funding model or talent pool available to innovators and what are the implications of for the future of innovation?

We are delighted to be joined once again by guests Mark Cummins, Professor of FinTech and a Principal Investigator within the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL), and Dr James Bowden, Senior Lecturer in Financial Technology, who both hail from the University of Strathclyde.

Presenter
Pierre Yves-Rahari, Co-Founder and Director, A-Lab Solutions (Reseo)

Guests
Mark Cummins, Professor of FinTech and a Principal Investigator within the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL), University of Strathclyde

Dr James Bowden, Senior Lecturer in Financial Technology, University of Strathclyde

Producers

Eva Keogan, Reseo

Melanie Lopes, Reseo

Enjoy listening and don’t forget to come back in the New Year when we go live with our 2025 schedule of discussions about the state of the industry.

Catch up on all our other episodes on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

New podcast: Fintech brings a new perspective to the AML-KYC process value chain

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Welcome to a new episode of the Reseo State of the Art podcast, the platform for conversations about all things innovation for the Investment Management industry.

In this episode we are in conversation with Pierre-Yves Rahari, the Co-founder of Reseo, who is passionate in helping industry players service investors and fund distributors.

He gives us a perspective of the innate complexity of the funds industry across the UK and Europe. He reveals how it is on the cusp of change thanks to various technology solutions we have today, such as Reseo, and a shared vision of how this should work.

Learn about the new collaboration with Multifonds, and how it is a strong example of the way the market is able to collaborate, as we explore a new vision of the fintech-enabled AML-KYC process value chain, and the role played by Reseo.

Guest
Pierre Yves-Rahari, Co-founder and Director, A-Lab Solutions (Reseo)

Presenter
Eva Keogan, Reseo

Producers
Eva Keogan, Reseo
Mel Lopes, Reseo

New podcast on innovation: A collaboration between Multifonds and Reseo for AML-KYC onboarding

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Welcome to the new episode of the Reseo State of the Art podcast, the platform for conversations about all things innovation for the Investment Management industry.

In this episode, we are talking about a real life application of innovation. This is the collaboration that Reseo is undertaking with Multifonds, one of the most prominent system providers in the Funds industry.

Joining our discussion is James Abram, a Multifonds specialist with a background in business analysis within the fund administration and, more specifically the Transfer Agency space and Pierre-Yves Rahari, Co-Founder and Director, A-Lab Solutions (Reseo). Pierre-Yves is particularly passionate in helping industry players service investors and fund distributors, and like James, also has a background in Transfer Agency.

The collaboration has gone from brainstorming an initial idea, to developing a prototype into an integrated solution, with both parties working together to explore ways in which they can find benefits for the players in the funds industry and delivers value.

Reseo and Multifonds have looked at two aspects of a difficult but often overlooked issue in the industry when opening an account in an investment fund; on one side the account opening process, and on the other the AML-KYC verification process.

Thanks for listening.

Guests
James Abram, Principal Presales Consultant, Multifonds
Pierre Yves-Rahari, Co-Founder and Director, A-Lab Solutions (Reseo)

New podcast: A History of Innovation in the Investment Management Industry

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Welcome to the new Reseo State of the Art podcast episode, History of Innovation in Investment Management. We are joined by guests and academics; Mark Cummins, Professor of FinTech and a Principal Investigator within the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL), and Dr James Bowden, Senior Lecturer in Financial Technology, who both hail from the University of Strathclyde.

The nature of our conversation is expansive; we take a look at the history of innovation in Investment Management, to see how the past is connected to the present, and what this means for the future of the industry. Starting with the creation of mutual funds in the early 1900s, we discuss the evolution of investment products, the influence of technology, the impacts of regulation, data and advanced analytics. We are also looking at behavioural finance, globalisation, and the biggest challenges to innovation in the Investment Management industry today.

Listen to our podcast for a lively discussion and highly informed viewpoints.

Presenter
Pierre Yves-Rahari, Co-Founder and Director, A-Lab Solutions

Guests
Mark Cummins, Professor of FinTech and a Principal Investigator within the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL), University of Strathclyde

Dr James Bowden, Senior Lecturer in Financial Technology, University of Strathclyde

News: Reseo e-Business ID solution launches into the Investment Management industry

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April 10, 2024: London-based investment technology startup A-Lab Solutions, today launches its ground breaking AI-enabled corporate investor centric Reseo e-Business ID solution (Reseo) into the market for the B2B Investment Management industry.

Initial rollout of Reseo is set to cover Luxembourg, Dublin, and UK -based funds and their global investors. As such, Reseo will support global distribution for UK, EMEA, LatAm, and Asia.

“Reseo is an industry first universal onboarding acceleration solution and we are delighted to launch into the market. Reseo sits between the Investor, Asset Manager, and Administrator, and is designed to work with existing onboarding platforms across the Investment Management industry. While Reseo acts as the universal travel adapter, seamlessly powering and accelerating onboarding, the Reseo e-Business ID, unique to each client, is the unique passport for funds.” said Pierre-Yves Rahari, Director and Co-Founder, A-Lab Solutions.

It is an accepted truth the industry spends too many hours on paper-based onboarding. Reseo is set to take the pain out of lengthy onboarding processes for the entire investment industry, by catapulting the process into the digital world.

“Reseo, significantly reduces risk while saving valuable time and money. There are many benefits, not least because it is available for industrywide use. We see existing onboarding as a significant yet overlooked challenge for the Investment Management industry and we solve the numerous issues with Reseo. We combat the messy paper headache with a digital solution accessed via an intuitive dashboard.” said Luuk Jacobs, Director and Co-Founder, A-Lab Solutions.

The elimination of paperwork saves time, money, and speeds up account opening times. The Reseo cloud-based solution leverages the latest AI technologies, and by doing so, reduces the document verification timeline from a matter of weeks to a matter of minutes.

To find out more about Reseo

Investment Management industry professionals wanting to contact Reseo to find out more or book a demo should get in contact here:

Pierre-Yves Rahari by phone: + 44 (0) 7454 006638 or by email: psrahari@reseo.global

Ends

About Reseo:

Reseo, the first product from the privately owned London-based startup A-Lab Solutions and, is set to catapult Investment Management servicing into the digital universe. A-Lab Solutions is built on the shared vision, mission, and values of its founders, team and Board of Directors.

A-Lab Solutions is united by trust, with diversity of thought at its core and dedicated to sustainable innovation.

Reseo is a trade mark of A-Lab Solutions Limited, registered in England and Wales.

Registered office: 40 Monkton Street, London SE1 4TX.

Registered company number: 10355088

Press Enquiries:

Eva Keogan

ekeogan@reseo.global

+44 0 7790 841538

 

The dream team: When the Investment Management industry and Regulators see eye-to-eye …

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Funds Congress, which took place in London on February 8, marked the opening of the conference season for the Investment Management industry in UK-Europe. Attendance was remarkable, especially during the live broadcast of Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s podcast, “The Rest Is Politics.” Congratulations to the organisers.

When introducing the two hosts, star broadcaster Kristy Wark referred to them as a “dream team” that managed to avoid being an “odd couple.” This drew genuine big laughs from the audience, but I couldn’t help but draw a parallel with a theme that was recurring during the conference: Investment Managers and Regulators are seeing eye-to-eye on a number of hot industry topics, and for once, complaints on a “regulatory tsunami” were quite muted. Instead, everyone was supportive of one another.

For example, there is a consensus across the continent that private assets will contribute significantly to the financing of the transition to a green economy. As a result, the industry is creatively creating products to attract retail investors towards this segment, which regulators are all supportive of. In our jargon – we like jargon in our industry[1] – this is called “retailisation of private assets.” Furthermore, there is a recognition that asset owners are increasingly scrutinising the ESG[2] credentials of asset managers, using the extensive sustainability data that the latter more and more willingly publish at the request of regulators. When an odd couple turns into a dream team …

But not all is perfect in dreamland. I rephrase. Work is still in progress. There was much discussion on the merits and benefits of digitalisation and AI for investors and the industry alike during the conference, yet, despite a few calls for caution on total reliance on machine intelligence, there was scarce mention of initiatives underway to regulate AI, on which the UK and Europe lead the conversations. It is maybe just a question of timing, as one regulator suggested, but I couldn’t help but notice the gap.

Why do these topics matter to us at Reseo? Because they touch on the core of our mission, which is to blend technology and investor-centric services to ensure continued financial trust while future-proofing the investment management industry for the digital generation. And for that to happen, we definitely need the industry and the regulators to see eye-to-eye.

Let’s hope for more and continued constructive debates in the course of this year.

And here’s to an encouraging start of the year for the industry.

PS – Please send me your favourite industry jargon, at psrahari@reseo.global. I will happily include it in my upcoming article.

 

 

[1] Industry jargon … this could be the topic of a full article in the future …

[2] ESG: Environmental, Social & Governance

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