Aurexia Promotions class of 2020

14 April 2020 by Maxime Poriel

AUREXIA’s Management is delighted to announce the appointment of 3 new Partners, 3 new Associate Partners and 2 Directors, to strengthen our growth on our 9 markets in our 5 offices through Europe and APAC.

Partners appointed

• Sithi Sirimanotham: Formerly Relationship Manager at BNP Paribas, then consultant with Finance and Accounting expertise, Sithi joined Aurexia in 2014. He is based in Singapore and oversees Corporate Banking, Wealth Management and Insurance business lines. Agile enabler and design thinking practitioner, he embraces innovation and business value with a client centric mindset. Also likes, golf, boxing and guitar.

• Alain de Cidrac: Graduated from ISEP and HEC and formerly consultant at Accenture and Deloitte, he founded and managed his own management consulting company and was associate partner at Julhiet Sterwen. At Aurexia since 2018, he is in charge of the Luxembourg office. Also practices rowing and likes reading and travelling.

• Manmeet Rana: Formerly a Director at Deloitte and at KPMG, with more than 14 years management consulting experience, she joined Aurexia in 2019 to lead the UK practice. With a background primarily in regulatory consulting, she is responsible for building out the UK practice across all capabilities, supported by our local and global experts. She is an avid (though unpublished) fiction writer, and enjoys travel, wine and good company.

Associate Partners appointed

• Nicolas Roblet: After 8 years of experience – 4 at KPMG and 4 at BNP Paribas Group in Group Finance, he joined AUREXIA in 2014. Nicolas is in charge of the development of offers part of the FIN/RISK/ALM practice: Finance function transformation, Finance regulatory and ALM regulations projects. He also likes Football, Basketball, gastronomy, red wines and get lost in the streets of Paris.

• Alexandre Blondel: Right after ESCP Europe graduation, Alexandre joined BPCE Inspection Generale Group, acted as portfolio manager in a smidcaps Private Equity fund before opting for management consulting at Ares & Co and Equinox-Cognizant. At AUREXIA, Alexandre is in charge of developing the Asset Management franchise and the Natixis account. He also likes playing rugby with his sons, tasting burgundy wine and trying to complete Marathon race in less than 4 hours.

• Sam Manoo: Graduated from Sciences-Po Paris. Financial services consultant at Sia Partners (2006), in charge of Risk Management activities at Algofi (2010), Director in risk and data management at Equinox-Cognizant (2013), Associate Partner since 2019. Sam is based in Paris office, developing data management capacities for all the business units.

Directors appointed

• Luc Estang: Luc was manager at DXC (ex-CSC) in the CIB practice before joining Aurexia in 2017 as Senior Manager. He will be developing Aurexia position in key clients accounts with a focus on CIB and Trade Finance matters. He’s looking forward to getting back to his CrossFit workouts once the lockdown is over.

• Geoffroy Vuatrin: Graduated from IESEG School of management and formerly consultant at EY Luxembourg and CSC.  At AUREXIA since 2014, Geoffroy is part of the Insurance and securities services business lines. He is based in Paris office, mainly growing AUREXIA Program Management capacities. Also likes trails and marathons as well as discovering culinary regional specialties.

Open Banking

8 July 2019 by Maxime Poriel

Comment entrer graduellement dans l’ère de l’Open Banking: Aurexia a analysé les différents modèles et perspectives offerts par l’ouverture des services bancaires de paiement.

Les possibilités sont nombreuses: partenariat des banques avec des établissements non bancaires, création de market place offrant des services bancaires, agrégation des meilleures briques fonctionnelles le long des parcours clients en selfcare ou pour les conseillers, fonctionnalités évoluées d’agrégateurs de comptes,…

Nous accompagnons nos clients dans leur réflexion stratégique autour de l’Open Banking et dans la mise en œuvre de projets dédiés

Néobanques et Banques en ligne

24 June 2019 by Maxime Poriel

Avec leur fort taux de croissance, les néobanques et les banques en ligne dynamisent le marché de la banque de détail. Elles doivent néanmoins faire face à des enjeux majeurs liés à leur rentabilité, à la maîtrise des risques de non-conformité (KYC notamment) ainsi qu’aux risques opérationnels. 
Aurexia a réalisé une analyse détaillée de l’environnement des néobanques et des banques en ligne: offres et service à valeur ajoutée, modèle opérationnel, core Banking,… Nous sommes en mesure d’accompagner des travaux sur ces différents sujets et sur les problématiques liées à la mise en conformité et au KYC

Target Operating Model for Collateral Management

17 June 2019 by Maxime Poriel

Discover our brand new study on collateral management and find out more about drivers to develop a new target model.

Le paysage bancaire français en 2019 – Banque de détail

6 June 2019 by Maxime Poriel

En pleine évolution technologique, opérationnelle et réglementaire, la banque de détail continue sa transformation.

Aurexia accompagne ses clients face à leurs principaux challenges en prenant en compte les nouvelles réglementations, l’entrée de nouveaux acteurs et la transformation digitale.

L’objectif est de s’adapter aux nouvelles tendances du marché tout en maintenant ses capacités de croissance.

Central Securities Depositaries Regulation (CSDR)

5 June 2019 by Maxime Poriel

In the context of market settlement operations, the European Commission introduced the Central Securities Depositary Regulation (CSDR), which provides a central point for depositing financial instruments. After the 2008 financial crisis, market settlement operations need more safety and efficiency. This European Union regulation should improve the stability and functioning of financial markets including infrastructures, clearing houses and trading venues.

Banque des entrepreneurs

22 May 2019 by Maxime Poriel

Comment répondre de manière coordonnée aux besoins à la fois professionnels et privés des entrepreneurs et dirigeants d’entreprises.

Au travers de cette étude, Aurexia fait un état des lieux sur les pratiques des banques retail et banque privées pour accompagner ce segment de clientèle. Entre approche commerciale pro-active, expertises en silo et contraintes informatiques, les banques s’organisent pour répondre de manière optimale aux entrepreneurs et dirigeants d’entreprise

Comprendre et concevoir des expériences clients satisfaisantes avec le Design Thinking

17 May 2019 by Maxime Poriel

Innover avec méthode pour favoriser l’émergence de nouvelles idées avec des outils centrés sur l’utilisateur : Aurexia accompagne ses clients dans leurs démarches de Design Thinking.

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Sinequa and Aurexia Join Forces

15 May 2019 by Maxime Poriel

Sinequa and Aurexia Join Forces to Deliver AI-Driven Insights to Improve Data Management and Customer Experience for Financial Institutions

PARIS and NEW YORK,  –  May 15, 2019 – Sinequa, a leader in cognitive search and analytics, and Aurexia, a leader in business consulting for financial services, today announced a partnership to deliver AI-powered technologies that provide financial institutions with maximum protection and control over sensitive customer data, and deliver a smarter, more robust customer experience by delivering contextual insights.

Financial institutions collect massive volumes of data, which can be a double-edged sword. Maintaining significant amounts of customer and portfolio data can provide tremendous opportunities for increased revenue and reduced risks. Yet organizations must comply with stringent regulations such as Dodd Frank (US), MiFID II (EU) and the GDPR (EU). These major regulatory changes heighten the pressure on financial organizations to organize and secure sensitive Non-Public Information (NPI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

“A majority of financial institutions are under-exploiting the volumes of unstructured data, and specifically available data about their clients, that can be helpful for risk & compliance purposes and improved customer service,” said Charles Bain de la Coquerie, partner at Aurexia. “In our view, explicitly mining this content to identify and capture contextual insights using Sinequa’s platform provides tangible business benefits to financial organizations.”

Located in London, Paris, Luxembourg and in Asia, Aurexia operates exclusively in financial services and provides a business consultancy through its dedicated practices: Capital Markets, Transaction Banking, Securities Services, Asset Management, Private Banking, Retail Banking, Finance, Risk and Insurance.

Aurexia’s expertise is also focused on supporting the digital transformation efforts of banks using Sinequa’s AI-powered search & analytics platform to uncover insights to improve client management services, mitigate risks, accelerate compliance with regulatory mandates and more.

“We continue to expand our footprint in the financial services industry, and we are excited to partner with Aurexia, an established leader in the space, to advance that progress,” said Patrick Metaireau, director, Channel Sales EMEA at Sinequa. “Together, we provide customers with powerful intelligence solutions that extract value from financial data and surface actionable information across all business functions, so it can be used to improve things like customer service, risk management, investment banking, regulatory compliance and asset management.”

For more information about how Sinequa helps Financial Services Organizations unlock the potential of their data, please visit: https://go.sinequa.com/whitepaper-finance.html.

About Aurexia

Founded in 2006, AUREXIA is a business management-consulting firm, committed to helping clients within the financial services industry achieve substantial and lasting improvements in their organizations. With consultants based in 5 different countries, Aurexia can bring unparalled value and expertise to clients globally and help them to take on challenges involving the re-structuring of their business model, re-shaping of operations and processes all within an increasingly restrictive regulatory framework. Aurexia’s commitment to research and development is materialized with the Aurexia Institute insights production on all financial services business topics. Aurexia continues to further develop it capabilities in digital transformation by setting up the AUREXIA FINLAB which manages all dimensions of our innovation clients’ needs including working with external innovative providers such as Sinequa.

About Sinequa

Sinequa is an independent software vendor providing an AI-Powered Search & Analytics platform for Global 2000 companies and government agencies that connects people with the information, expertise and insights necessary for organizations to become information-driven. For Sinequa customers, this means actionable information presented in context to surface insights, inform decisions, and elevate productivity. The platform has been forged by experience in projects for large organizations in complex environments with large and diverse sets of data and content. Sinequa’s unified platform is fully integrated and configurable to support current and future needs around becoming information-driven.

Regulatory Watch Paris #Avril2019

14 May 2019 by Maxime Poriel

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Summary RegWatch #23 – France:

1. IBOR Transition: enjeux 2019 et taux à terme
2. Loi PACTE : adoption et propositions de la FFA
3.  Un visa optionnel pour les ICO (Initial Coin Offering)
4. Stripe renforce son expertise sur « l’authentification forte du client »

…and the latest industry news!