Trading Tech
Quantifi releases Version 9.3
London-based Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management products to the global credit markets, has released Version 9.3 of its pricing, hedging and risk analysis platform. Quantifi says V9.3 provides more robust risk reporting, streamlined…
SunGard unveils VPM version 9.0
SunGard has released a new version of its VPM portfolio accounting platform for hedge funds. According to SunGard, VPM version 9.0 provides funds with an enterprise-level portfolio accounting application built on a service-oriented architecture for plug…
Buy-side risk projects set to increase in 2010
Following mounting evidence that risk management processes in the traditional asset management and hedge fund industries proved alarmingly inadequate in the midst of the global credit crisis, investment managers are now intending to beef-up risk…
Daiwa looks to Syncova OPTIMA/Broker for margining support
Daiwa Securities Europe, the European arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities, has deployed Syncova's OPTIMA/Broker platform, with a global licence, to support its expanding synthetic prime brokerage business line. OPTIMA/Broker is a prime…
Evercore takes Advent's APX and Moxy applications
Evercore Pan-Asset Capital Management will imple ment Advent's Moxy OMS and the vendor's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), an integrated portfolio and client-relationship management platform. According to Advent, Evercore had previously relied on…
Holland Park selects Algo Risk Service
Holland Park Risk Management (HPRM), a Toronto-based independent risk management adviser to pension fund managers in the US and Canada, has signed a three-year contract for the Algo Risk Service, Algorithmics' outsourced risk management and portfolio…
Reduced latency for SunGard's GL Net global order-routing service
SunGard has deployed new ultra-low latency market data distribution (MDD) servers for GL Net, its market-data and order-routing network. GL Net customers are now able to access highly scalable and enriched market-data flows delivered at a microsecond…
Stralem live on Advent's APX platform
Stralem & Company, a New York-based investment manager with $2.2 billion under management, has implemented the performance analytics capabilities of Advent Software's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) platform to better compare its portfolios internally…
Prop trading: RIP?
Once when I was 16, about six months after I started driving to school and work, my heavy foot got me two speeding tickets within 24 hours. A major component of the parental wrath incurred was the loss of my car keys for a fortnight. The thrill (and…
Interactive Data adds new features to PrimeTerminal offering
Interactive Data Corporation has added a range of portfolio analysis functions to its PrimeTerminal Professional financial desktop. The enhancements are designed to allow investment advisers and wealth managers to access and analyse their customer…