Thomas Murray 2024 Wrapped

We are pleased to share an overview of our 2024 expert insights and innovative solutions, aimed to enhance resilience, optimise due diligence, and keep you at the forefront of regulatory developments.?

It has been a remarkable year of expansion for Thomas Murray. We trust you have appreciated the daily risk intelligence we deliver through our technologies, solutions, expert guidance, newsletters, and insights.

Insights from our experts

In 2024, our team of experts across various sectors of our business embarked on an incredibly productive journey, resulting in the creation of nearly 200 insightful articles. These pieces reflect the depth and breadth of our departments' expertise, offering valuable perspectives on a wide range of topics.

Here are the top 5 pieces that captured your attention this year:

1. The role of correspondent banking in combatting financial crime
2. The high risk of dormant accounts: Are you monitoring yours?
3. What is UCITS, and what is a UCITS fund?
4. Understanding banking and finance: What is clearing?
5. The essential role of fund administrators in investment funds

Bank Network Management

Eligible markets solution for UCITS and FCA COLL 5.2 compliance

This year, we introduced a new service designed to enhance your investment strategy with confidence. Our Market Eligibility Due Diligence service utilises extensive data and state-of-the-art automation to deliver precise, up-to-date insights into market eligibility and operational suitability. This innovative service provides you with comprehensive reports, enabling you to effectively demonstrate to regulators that thorough research and assessment of market eligibility and operational suitability have been conducted before making investment decisions.

Explore the solution

Additional reading:

1. UCITS Compliance: An Interview with a Funds Compliance and Oversight Expert
2. The Impact of UCITS and COLL 5.2 on Fund Managers
3. Streamlining Compliance: How Technology Can Help Fund Managers Meet UCITS and COLL 5.2 Requirements

Funds Services

Operational Due Diligence

The launch of our Operational Due Diligence (ODD) solution has been met with great interest. This unique ODD solution allows you to outsource and automate the most time-consuming elements of monitoring external fund managers and other counterparties. The unique benefits of the tool include:

• Entity summary - Our Entity Profile Dashboard offers a centralised view of an investment manager's operational profile, highlighting key strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement to inform investor decision-making.
• Media Monitor tool powered by AI - personalised news alerts tailored to your investment portfolio and interests.
• Financial statement monitoring - We can extract and scrub financial statement data from your general partners. Our dashboards show trend analysis and create red flags that alert you to what you need to know for qualitative and quantitative monitoring of your external fund managers.??

Learn more about ODD

Capital Markets

T+1 Settlement?

Our FMI analysts crafted an insightful eBook to help you master the intricacies of the T+1 settlement. This comprehensive guide explores the impact of T+1 across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America regions. As T+1 continues to evolve, our experts are preparing an updated report for 2025. In the meantime, we invite you to download the latest edition of our complimentary eBook.

Download the T+1 settlement eBook

Additional reading:

1. Slow and steady: The EU and UK approach to T+1 settlement cycles

Cyber Risk

Digital Operational Resilience Act?

In January 2024, our dedicated cyber team started delivering a comprehensive suite of resources aim to help companies become compliant with the DORA regulation by 17th January 2025. Tailored to deepen your understanding, monitor your compliance journey, and offer unwavering support, our offerings include in-depth webinars, insightful articles, detailed checklists, interactive workshops, and engaging podcasts. Our DORA Compliance Progress Check questionnaire, offers companies a transparent evaluation of their compliance gaps, along with actionable suggestions for enhancement. As the DORA compliance deadline rapidly approaches, we urge you to take advantage of our free resources and ensure your readiness.

Request the DORA Compliance Check

Additional resources:

1. [UPCOMING] Webinar Series: DORA Compliance: Journey so far and what next - register here
2. Executive Readiness for DORA Workshops
3. DORA Talks Podcast on Spotify

Webinars

We have conducted a series of engaging webinars designed specifically for Banks, Private Equity, Funds, Cyber Risk professionals, and more. These sessions have provided valuable insights to our participants. Additionally, we have offered exclusive, members-only webinars throughout the year, delivering unique perspectives that were not available to the general public. Many of our sessions have been made accessible via our YouTube.

Some of our audience favourites have included:

1. Is anyone truly ready for DORA?
2. Cyber Risk Management for Private Equity Firms
3. Tabletop Exercise: Responding to a cyber incident at a Venture Capital Fund

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For more industry insights, check out our newsletters

Cyber Series - Go behind the headlines with a weekly deep-dive into what’s shaping our digital world.

DORA Digest - Expert insights and analysis to help you on the DORA compliance journey.

Risk Committee Updates - Monthly highlights from our experts’ assessments of markets and entities.