Buy-Side Technology - 2010-04-01

Immediate risks, distant rewards

Research from Greenwich Associates and Omgeo published in February examines more pro-active hedge fund approaches to risk management aimed at dealing with counterparty risk and investor demand. Meanwhile, studies from Tabb Group and Celent Communications…

Advent upgrades Geneva and APX applications

Advent Software has launched upgrades to its Geneva back-office platform and Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), the San Francisco-based vendor's portfolio management product, as part of a year-long initiative to roll-out enhancements to its entire suite.

A rude awakening

Many aspects of buy-side technology and operations have had to grow up fast following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Collateral management, for many firms a low-priority function entrusted to Excel spreadsheets before the credit crunch, is the stand…

Instinet to take Asian dark-pool plunge

Dark pools, already a well-established facet of the buy-side trading landscape in the US, western European and Scandinavian markets, are primed to appear in Asia. Given the speed with which they became an integral part of the markets in which they…

Maitland stops the clocks

Maitland Fund Services, based in the South African buy-side stronghold of Cape Town, has, according to Nick Baikoff, the firm's head of asset services, altered the clock speed for itself and its clients by developing a real-time front- to back-office…

Spotlight on James Hockley

Investit's new business director James Hockley is no stranger to the London-based consultancy. He has previously headed the firm's operations practice, with a stint as head of European funds services and global provider management at Barclays Global…

Middle-office move

A decade ago, the typical buy-side firm comprised three distinct areas: the front, the middle and the back offices, each responsible for managing its own well-defined functions. But that is no longer the case as buy-side firms look to move traditional…

SimCorp introduces new front-office suite

Copenhagen-based specialist buy-side technology provider SimCorp has released a new front-office suite within SimCorp Dimension, its front-to back-office investment management platform. The suite features scalable front-office support for portfolio…

Hedge fund fault lines

Currency speculators and their benefactors in the financial industry have been getting what they would call a 'bum rap' lately following the Greek debt crisis. But bad press may prove a mere tip of the iceberg if recent sabre-rattling by certain European…

Month in Numbers, April 2010

"Telling an investor that you've got $10 million of their assets out as collateral and you're tracking it on a spreadsheet is not quite the story you want to be telling now" Jeff Siemer, head of North American business development for Algorithmics'…

Best sourcing: buying in what you can't do without

In the wake of the downturn, financial institutions are relying on their trading and compliance technology to support their businesses in more ways than ever before. They need it to be robust enough to deal with the rigours of an increasingly complex…

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