New microsite helps investment managers build business case for SWIFT adoption
The investment managers’ one-stop portal centralises information on connectivity options, solutions and benefits to investment managers on SWIFT
The community of investment managers on SWIFT is growing at a steady pace. It now totals 800 investment managers, across 70 countries. The range of SWIFT solutions and services available to help investment managers reduce operational risks and costs and grow their businesses is also expanding, and the business case for buy side firms to invest in SWIFT gets stronger all the time.
However, because the SWIFT community as a whole encompasses such a wide variety of institutions, and SWIFT offers such a broad range of solutions, it can be challenging for investment managers to find the information required to build that business case, to establish the precise value of SWIFT to them, and to determine the best route to connect to SWIFT and start benefiting.
A new ‘microsite' targeted specifically at the investment management community - www.swift.com/investmentmanagers - is designed to overcome this barrier, providing buy sides with a one-stop-shop information source about SWIFT: how to build a business case; the solutions available by asset class and business area; how to get started on SWIFT; what the custodian community is providing via SWIFT; how SWIFT's wide range of partners can help investment managers extract the full benefits from their investment in SWIFT; and the views and experiences of investment managers using SWIFT already.
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“The scalability we get through SWIFT automation is huge. We would not have been able to support our growth and stay in this business without it.”
Investment Manager on SWIFT |
If you are an investment manager experiencing fluctuating trading volumes, using multiple proprietary terminals, sending and receiving a high volume of faxes, communicating with a multitude of brokers, custodians and other counterparties, needing to protect your reputation as one of your biggest assets, using email for confidential or time-critical communication, and expecting your trading volumes to grow significantly in the future, then you will certainly benefit from using SWIFT. Likewise, if you are an investment manager already using SWIFT, you will gain further benefits through greater use of SWIFT.
As one investment manager says: "The scalability we get through SWIFT automation is huge. We would not have been able to support our growth and stay in this business without it."
Visit www.swift.com/investmentmanagers today to find out more about how SWIFT can help you as an investment manager achieve peace of mind in this challenging economic environment, through better automation, reduced costs and risks, and the provision of a solid operational foundation for future growth.