Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligentinformation for businesses and professionals, today announced an agreement withMediant Communications to provide shareholder communications for ThomsonReuters Wealth Management solutions. Mediant is a leading provider oftechnology-enabled solutions for delivering and monitoring proxy, corporateactions, prospectuses, fund reports, bankruptcy notices and othercommunications between brokers and banks and their financial advisors, accountmanagers and customers.
Thomson Reuters and MediantCommunications have collaborated closely since 2008 to integrate data flows forjoint customers and provide interfaces between Thomson Reuters Wealth Managementplatform and Mediant’s MIC (Management Information Center) database ofshareholder events, documents and account information. With this new agreement,Thomson Reuters is able to create greater structure and standardization with itsshareholder communications capabilities on the Mediant platform.
“Shareholder communications is animportant component of the wealth management industry and Thomson Reuters iscommitted to ensuring that we remain at the forefront by providingbest-in-class solutions,” said Mark Schlageter, managing director, Go ToMarket, Americas, Thomson Reuters. “Mediant has demonstrated that it is apreferred vendor for brokers and banks, with a faster-growing client base thanother industry participants and more forward-looking technology solutions. Our agreementmakes it easier for clients to wrap our products and services into a singleprocurement decision and compliance-monitoring environment.”
“As shareholder communicationsbecome more technology-driven with increasing emphasis on quality assurance andinformation security, Mediant’s focus on both operational systems developmentand end-user software become more attractive to brokers and banks and theircustomers,” said Arthur Rosenzweig, Mediant’s CEO. “Now we can add enhancedvalue to Thomson Reuters clients and their customers.”
Thomson Reuters Wealth Managementmeets the end-to-end needs of wealth management firms and delivers tools forfinancial advisors to be successful. The Thomson Reuters Wealth Managementplatform provides a complete suite of products to manage daily brokerageoperations, including customer on-boarding, compliance and regulatorymanagement. The platform offers direct access to industry leading market andnews coverage along with workflow tools that integrate proprietary content andthird party applications, proposal generation, model management and accountrebalancing.
For more information on ThomsonReuters Wealth Management, please visit: http://thomsonreuters.com/financial/.
Mediant Communications is aninvestor communications company providing software and services to banks,brokerage firms, corporations and investment companies for processing anddistributing proxy materials, prospectuses and other communications to equity,bond and mutual fund investors. Established in 2002, Mediant is a pioneer in both front-office andback-office software for document processing and delivery for brokers andbanks. Mediant also provides annual meeting management, distribution andtabulation services for corporate issuers. In 2012, Mediant became the first company to launch a full set ofsoftware solutions for the broker-dealer and its operations managers, financialadvisors, retail investors and managed accounts. For more information onMediant Communications, please visit: https://www.mediantonline.com/.