PIMFA Spring Networking Reception 2024

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.
Visit us at www.accenture.com

Allfunds is one of the leading global WealthTech companies with a service offering tailored for Fund Houses and Distributors that ranges from dealing and execution services, to data analytics, reporting and portfolio tools, ESG advisory and custom software solutions.
For more than twenty years, Allfunds has created an efficient, secure ecosystem that hosts the largest fund distribution network, offering access to the world’s most comprehensive universe of mutual funds, ETFs and alternative assets

Altus Consulting is a leading specialist Financial Services Management Consultancy founded in 2005 with the belief that Financial Services should be more accessible, more efficient, and more equitable. We are as dedicated to these objectives today as we were back then, and it is this passion that has helped us to become a leader in strategic consulting, digitisation, and transformation across the Insurance, Investments and Banking sectors.

Today our consultants provide strategic advice to Financial Services businesses around the world, working in partnership with them to determine, design and deliver change more effectively. Our blend of repeatable, ‘engineered’ solutions for tackling common problems, coupled with deep industry expertise, helps us to bring cost-effective answers to a huge range of client challenges.

Beyond is a specialist London-based Financial Services consultancy dedicated to operational excellence, driving value from data and technology, implementing regulatory change, and tackling financial crime.

We are a fast-growing firm with around 40 consultants, having delivered projects for a noteworthy roster of clients including banks, asset managers, wealth managers, fintechs, and insurers.

Everything we do is focused on helping our clients succeed in their most critical objectives.

Our expert knowledge of the Financial Services operational space allows us to identify quickly what needs to be done and find the shortest routes to delivering the results you need. We only recruit high calibre, experienced consultants with an entrepreneurial attitude, who roll up their sleeves and are at their best when failure is not an option.

CREALOGIX is a global leader in digital wealth management. For over 25 years we have partnered with some of the world’s leading banks and wealth management firms, delivering in-depth sector expertise and innovative technology.

The CREALOGIX modular SaaS digital wealth management engagement platform empowers financial institutions to provide a modern self-service user experience to their end customers. Wealth management firms can accelerate innovation with secure, well-designed solutions which improve efficiencies, increase customer satisfaction, and attract new growth through digital channels.

The cloud-based, SaaS (Software as a Service) technology provides proven customer-centric digital wealth and banking services to hundreds of the world's leading financial institutions. CREALOGIX solutions deliver high-quality, exceptional service online with easy-to-embrace technology that is fast to implement, meets regulatory requirements and can be customised to match your brand. Benefits of the solution include:

• A secure online portal in your brand livery, accessible via browsers, iOS and Android mobile apps;
• Portfolio, account and holdings overview including details of cash and stock transactions and a breakdown of portfolios by geography, currency and sector;
• Advanced security including secure messaging with Outlook integration, secure SFTP document library upload facility and advanced two-factor authentication for secure sign-in;
• Usage analytics to find out what your clients use and discover where personal intervention and self-service in the right places can add value.

CREALOGIX solutions offer a foundation for the future; the tiered progression system makes it easy to innovate in the areas that deliver most value with our premium modules, including our award-winning onboarding solution.

VENDOR iQ by Graphene is your strategic partner for supply chain activities in wealth and asset management. Leveraging over 4 billion data points, our platform creates a robust supply chain data layer, that unlocks value in existing processes.
We use this extensive data to help wealth and asset managers mitigate risks, reduce cost, and extract optimal value from their supply chain.

Our approach involves primary research, public datasets, and acquired data to construct a foundational dataset. Through enrichment, modelling, and interpretation, we provide actionable insights and near-real-time alerts for more efficient procurement, surveillance, and oversight.

For those seeking efficiency in critical areas, VENDOR iQ transforms data into actionable intelligence, driving success in wealth and asset management.

We’re Impressor, and we’re here to help you with all things Creative Design and collateral related to the printed matter.

First impressions count and printed materials are often just that. So from business cards to booklets, screen prints to banners, Events to Merchandise and from Audio/Visual to wide-format printing to just about everything in-between, Impressor has you covered with the quality that you need.

We’re experts in the industry and have been supporting businesses with their print needs for the best part of 40 years. Now, we’re ready to support you. So regardless of job size, drop us a line and let’s see what we can do.

For more than 30 years, we have built partnerships with Private Banks, Wealth Managers, and Asset Managers of any size and anywhere to digitally transform their business leveraging Objectway multi-faceted investment service platform.

Our technology stack serves the full value chain of wealth management and investment service through a unified digital design.

Operating from offices in Italy, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, France, UAE and Canada, Objectway is a Global Top 100 fintech provider (IDC ranking) with 200+ clients in 15+ countries, supporting approximately 100,000 investment professionals to manage more than £1.5 trillion in assets.

Onyx Insurance Brokers Limited are a specialist independent Lloyd’s of London Insurance Broker offering bespoke expert insurance advice to the UK Financial Services community.

The team at Onyx has over 100 years’ of experience providing tailored solutions to their clients’ Professional Indemnity, Directors’ and Officers’, Cyber Liability and Office Combined needs.

BNY Mellon’s Pershing provides a broad range of financial business solutions to investment banks, broker-dealers, wealth managers, financial planners and advisers across EMEA. Our core solutions include sophisticated frontend technology and flexible middle-office capabilities with execution, settlement and custody services.

These are supported by a robust regulatory and compliance framework with dedicated client asset experience and expertise. By supporting wealth managers and advisers behind the scenes, Pershing provides them with the means to help their investors achieve their financial goals. Find out more at pershing.com/emeaNY Mellon

Consumers today face the tough challenge of combining the need to protect their income while they are working and save for their retirement at the same time. In an environment where legislation and products are constantly changing and evolving, this is especially difficult.
Royal London is about providing financial security at all stages of life. Most people will have a need for some sort of protection, whether that is to protect their income or their family while they are working, protect their standard of living in retirement by saving into a pension or protecting their savings by investing in a capital protected product.

Founded as a Friendly Society in 1861 before becoming a mutual in 1908, we’re proud to be one of the UK’s first and remaining member-owned companies. With people demanding more from their financial products and services, there are lots of perks to being a mutual. It means we’re committed to giving you higher levels of service and great experiences, and making sure the voice of our members is heard.

Ruleguard is an industry-leading software platform designed to help regulated firms manage the burden of evidencing and monitoring compliance. It has a range of tools to help firms fulfil their obligations across the UK, Europe and APAC regions. At Ruleguard we understand the ever-changing regulatory landscape and the problems that must be solved for our clients to manage their day-to-day operations.

Ruleguard has been designed to help you demonstrate and evidence compliance, by using its comprehensive rules-mapping, risk and control tools, automated reporting features and powerful dashboards. At its core, Ruleguard is a single unifying solution for all your compliance processes and procedures for managing your ongoing compliance.

With Ruleguard, firms have a seamless control environment between the firm and its third parties for genuine oversight. This can radically transform the third-party oversight capabilities of a compliance function and allow it to extend best practice beyond the borders of an individual firm.

Using Ruleguard will enable you to show regulators and auditors how your business has complied with the rules, including providing effective governance and oversight to your firm.

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.
Our sector is being held back by old tech, dismal processes and misaligned interests. Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers.
We started afresh, with a low-cost, hyper-efficient and (genuinely) API-first technology infrastructure, which supports firms at the forefront of our changing industry.
Working around a principle of collaborative innovation, our technology and operations power the investment platforms of some of the UK’s most forward-thinking financial planning and wealth management firms, including P1 and Marlborough.
They also help ambitious, fast-growth technology businesses – such as GoHenry, Penfold and Crowdcube – to launch and maintain their investment propositions more quickly and affordably than ever before.
A regulated custodian and ISA/SIPP provider, we have the disruptive mindset and ambitious mission to shake things up, along with the commitment and substance to not screw them up.

"Unblu is a leading Conversational Engagement Platform that’s fine-tuned for the financial services industry. Centered around three pillars – texting, video & voice, and collaboration – we help retail banks, wealth management firms, and insurance companies to provide faster, more secure customer service experiences.

Founded in 2008 in Basel, Switzerland, Unblu has been part of the Swiss Post Group since 2022, with subsidiaries in Germany, Bulgaria, UK, USA, and Canada. Over the years, we’ve served 170+ banks and insurance companies, empowering them to lower costs, secure more meetings, and increase conversions.

With seamless integration capabilities and a 90-95% client satisfaction rate, Unblu enables the ultimate in-person experience for online customer collaboration and advisory. Any time. Anywhere. And on any device.

Visit www.unblu.com to find out more."

Worksmart is a specialist technology company, providing a range of ‘RegTech’ software solutions that help maximise operational efficiency through strengthening our clients approach to Governance, Compliance and Risk. Products include complaints & feedback solutions, quality assurance processes, training & competence systems, the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (“SM&CR”) in the UK, SEAR and IAF in Ireland, and similar Accountability regime around the world.

Typically, we work with companies who:

• are concerned about the operational costs and resource challenges of managing regulation.
• are troubled with a lack of transparency within their compliance procedures.
• are uneasy about access to reliable and timely MI (reporting), including the integrity and accuracy of audit trails and evidential records.

DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with offices across Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. With global headquarters in London, we also have 10 locations in the UK. We have a strong heritage in Insurance, Health and Real Estate and operate in a wide range of other sectors, drawing on the knowledge, industry experience and commercial expertise of our experts, numbering some 2,700 worldwide.

We offer full service legal and commercial solutions to the financial services sector, covering all key areas of expertise. Our clients include leading investment and retail banks, building societies, regulated lenders, asset and wealth managers, payment services firms, and networks of financial advisers and mortgage intermediaries

Farrer & Co is synonymous with the highest quality legal advice and service.

We advise individuals, families, businesses, financial services, educational and not-for-profit organisations on every aspect of the law, wherever the need arises. From our offices in London we work with trusted professionals around the world to deliver a seamless international service.

Our clients present us with complex and varied challenges. Whether that's a complicated family trust issue, a multinational corporate transaction, or an emerging threat to their reputation, they need clear thinkers who can advise on the best solutions, fast thinkers when speed is of the essence and agile thinkers who can produce a fresh approach to get the job done. That's why they choose us.

Our clients value our in-depth knowledge, technical excellence and diversity of disciplines. But what really binds our long-standing relationships with them is our approach: pragmatic, plain speaking and always steadfast in our values, which we hold dear. Values which mean we gain our clients' trust, always strive to do the right thing, and aim for the best results for them.

Superb client service sits at the heart of everything we do. We are modern lawyers with timeless values.

FSL (Financial Software Ltd.) provides specialist investment tax solutions that simplify the process of management, analysis, and reporting. The firm has a proven track record for developing market-leading products since 1994, including CGiX, the industry’s award-winning capital gains calculator.

Having initially focused on software, FSL leveraged its expertise to meet the demands of a changing market and evolved its offering to include financial services data. In addition to CGiX, its other solutions include a comprehensive database of corporate actions that supports its products and is also used for offshore investment and excess reportable income. And ETHiX, an ESG modelling software which lets users create an accurate picture of ESG performance and advise on sustainable investment strategies. The team also offers tax and data consultancy services to some of the UK’s largest banks and wealth firms.

Wealth managers, banks, accountancy firms, and platform providers rely on FSL to alleviate the pain of investment tax, allowing them to deliver a more accurate and efficient service for their customers. As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, FSL is powering the transition to wealth management 4.0 through ongoing innovation and an in-depth understanding of investor expectations.

FSL is part of Industrial Thought Ltd., the parent company for a group of companies shaping the future of financial technology and data products.

Mitigo is PIMFA PLUS partner, providing members with protection against cyber attacks (including ransomware and email account takeover), operational resilience, data security and legal and regulatory compliance. The service covers risk assessment, technology testing, cyber awareness training, and governance.
Mitigo also provides a cyber incident response and investigation service.

As the world’s largest privately held, independent insurance broker, Lockton seamlessly supports wealth management clients through their growth journey.
Our dedicated Global Financial Institutions practice comprises 30 industry experts who develop intelligent and cost-effective solutions in Professional Indemnity, Crime, Directors' & Officers' Liability, and Cyber Insurance. Our solutions provide balance sheet protection for clients and personal asset protection for Directors and Officers.
Our high levels of client service are designed to keep the insurance process as simple as possible, with no surprises, allowing clients to concentrate on their day jobs, while being safe in the knowledge that their risk transfer programme is in expert hands.

SEI delivers technology and investment solutions that connect the financial services industry. With capabilities across investment processing, operations, and asset management, SEI works with corporations, financial institutions and professionals, and ultra-high-net-worth families to help drive growth, make confident decisions, and protect futures. As of Dec. 31, 2023, SEI manages, advises, or administers approximately £1.10 trillion (1 USD to 0.7854 GBP) in assets. For more information, visit seic.com/uk

SIX connects financial market participants in Switzerland, Spain and throughout the world. The company is owned by around 120 national and international financial institutions. They are the main users of our services and our most important customers.
Our close relationship with them guarantees stability of the financial infrastructure and processes, proximity to clients’ evolving business needs and competitive prices. SIX is also building a digital infrastructure for the new millennium.

Our mission? To be the most inspiring specialty broker in the world, setting a new standard, rooted in unwavering focus.

Part of specialty (re)insurance group, Aventum, controlling $1.5bn GWP globally, our specialty broking business is made up of six distinct teams with deep sector expertise.

Whether you are a policyholder, retail or wholesale broker, MGA or cedant, and irrespective of your location globally, you can expect a consistent and exceptional experience working with us, which is of course backed by a comprehensive knowledge of your industry and always supported by a world class insurer panel. Additionally, as an accredited Lloyd’s of London Broker, we provide access to the wider London Market.

Figg is a wealth aggregation and financial information platform created to simplify users’ financial journey with its cutting edge technology and powerful features.

Lumera is dedicated to the digital transformation of the Life and Pensions industry. As insurtech innovators, we are introducing AI-powered automation and business analytics to policy administration. The Prudent Revolution is our mission – bridging technology and partnership to navigate the fastest, safest path through complex change for L&P providers. With a faultless track record from extensive migration projects, Lumera combines our cloud-native policy administration platform with deep domain expertise.
www.lumera.com

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SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale and technology

Industrial Thought
Founded in 2013, Industrial Thought Ltd. is the parent company for a group of companies shaping the future of financial technology and data products. Backed by collective expertise, it is powering the transition to wealth management 4.0 and facilitating a socially responsible, sustainable economy.
As the wealth management industry enters a new era, Industrial Thought will drive transformation by creating a complete suite of data, platform, and marketplace services to support the delivery of higher standards and speed up innovation.
Companies within Industrial Thought include:
- FSL (Financial Software Ltd.): a provider of specialist investment tax solutions and the creator of CGiX, the market-leading capital gains calculator.
- Raw Knowledge: a specialist data provider for the wealth management industry.
- Thought Train: a rapid proof of concept company focused on financial software development.
- Thought Ventures: a venture builder and incubator aimed at investing in innovative start-ups working towards a more circular economy.

ID-Pal is an award-winning global identity verification provider that is GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified by design. Its platform provides real-time identity and address verifications with a comprehensive range of advanced biometric, document, and database checks. Its solution can be set up in a day and streamlines the Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes while offering flexible deployment options, including an out-of-the-box solution, API/SDK integration, and as a Salesforce AppExchange.

WealthOS is a cloud-native operating system that offers future-proof technology infrastructure to build and run the next generation of savings, investment and retirement products.

Founded in 2019 and currently available in the UK–WealthOS is a middle and back-office core operating system SaaS for wealth management. The platform significantly reduces operational time and costs through extensive automation and orchestration of processes as well as remote maintenance and updates. WealthOS helps wealth managers to achieve their digital transformation three times faster and 40% cheaper

The team has decades of experience from Fidelity, London Stock Exchange Group and Smart Pension, excelling in large client onboarding and revolutionising technology for financial services. As a minority-founded business, WealthOS' mission is to build fast and frictionless digital infrastructure, to enable equitable financial access for everyone, everywhere.