BACKGROUND Our client, a large financial services accounting outsource provider, engaged Meradia to convert an investment manager (the end-client) from two separate legacy accounting platforms onto a new strategic platform. Our client had been providing mutual fund accounting services to a large investment manager for over a decade and all funds were to be converted
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BACKGROUND A leading global provider of integrated solutions for institutional asset managers engaged Meradia to document operating procedures. As a service vendor to the industry this firm was asked by existing clients, sales prospects and regulatory bodies to provide comprehensive documentation to substantiate business practices as part of due diligence exercises. Existing documentation was fragmented,
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BACKGROUND A leading global provider of integrated solutions for institutional asset managers used Markit EDM to provision the security master supporting their multi-client investment management platform. The organization wanted to adopt an approach that would extend the capabilities to also satisfy their wealth management and banking security master needs. The client had growing demands for
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BACKGROUND Meradia’s client, a global asset servicing company, acquired a European asset servicing firm, which included a middle-office software vendor. The software vendor served both the newly acquired European asset servicing business and had independent clients. Meradia was engaged to identify and evaluate ways our client could leverage this newly acquired software asset. Options included:
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BACKGROUND Meradia was retained by a leading global asset servicing company to solve scalability problems arising from the rapid growth of their data warehouse. Expansion of the firm’s data warehouse to meet the influx of new clients and service offerings was complex with the extension of historical data and addition of new functionality. Complicating the
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