The desire for automation and digitisation of processes and procedural operative tasks derives from the very nature of the investment business itself. As a depositary to various types of Malta-domiciled Collective Investment Schemes (”CIS”), it is imperative to highlight the fact that a CIS is generally subject to a magnitude of different rules and obliged to comply with such rules on an ongoing basis. 

As digital innovation leaves its footprint in the space of asset and fund managers, which seemingly have adopted and already harvesting the fruits of innovative solutions in the data processing and data management space, it might not be a surprise to read that automation, particularly relating to data processing and management has not only been topics of great interest to fund and asset managers, but also to depositaries.

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