Analysis
State Street Presses Forward with Data Digitization Program
At an event this week in Manhattan, State Street executives discussed their digitization program that is designed to improve the firm's data and analytics services for asset managers.
Survey Suggests Dramatic Drop in BlackBerry Support
BlackBerry is still the dominant mobile technology issued to employees, but the quintessential corporate device is likely to be phased out soon, according to buy-side consultancy Investit’s recent survey of its IT benchmarking members.
Study: Asset Managers Grapple with Effective Data Aggregation, Analytics
In a survey commissioned by State Street and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, buy-side firms indicated that more stringent risk management standards, a growing volume of trading data, and the need to expand into new regions and asset classes…
Will Consolidation or Fragmentation Follow NYSE–ICE, Bats–Direct Edge?
NYSE Euronext–IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Bats–Direct Edge have cleared most regulatory hurdles—NYSE–ICE is days away from being cemented, according to reports, and Bats–Direct Edge just received approval from the US Justice Department. So the…
Tech, Mutual Recognition Scheme Spearhead BBH's Asia Push
After 24 years in Hong Kong, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is gearing up for a potentially game-changing development related to Mainland China. Bill Rosensweig, BBH's director of investor services who formerly headed up its Infomediary platform, says the…
Swift Eyes Further US Penetration by Staying 'Local'
Omgeo's move away from its long-standing Oasys platform to a new central trade matching (CTM) service for non-US trades is still playing out, but SWIFT business development director Paul Taylor says the industry banking utility already created new…
Low Latency Still Sells, Says Microsecond-Breaking Exablaze
Count Australian hardware provider Exablaze among those who believe that the latency race is far from slowing down. The Melbourne-based vendor spun off from high-frequency trading (HFT) firm Zomojo in May with the intention of building high-speed network…
Analytics Poised to Lead Future Financial Services Change
While analytics tools are pervasive in retail financial services, their growth in capital markets is being driven by a number of factors. With a range technologies now at the disposal of both buy-side and sell-side firms, how will their use evolve? This…
Buy-Side Data Governance Requires a Cultural Change
At a recent Rimes Technologies roundtable, hosted by Waters, senior representatives from the buy side debated the issue of data governance within asset management firms. The problem with implementing effective governance, they said, may be cultural…
Maxim Implements SunGard Amid Growing Broker Trend
Maxim Group, an 11-year-old specialist brokerage, has added to its arsenal of SunGard products by implementing the provider's VPM portfolio accounting solution. The move is a result of of heightened transparency demands, but also a sign of Maxim filling…
Beneath London, Data Flows Through the City’s Sewers
There’s a lot to be said for London’s sewer system. Calling it a marvel of engineering isn’t hyperbole—the 150-year-old construction is still going strong, and current estimates, given levels of wear and tear, suggest that it could last for at least…
Evaluating Major Banks’, DTCC’s Client Entity Data Platform
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Fortress CTO: Steps to True Enterprise Data Management
Five years ago, New York-based Fortress Investment Group had a tightly coupled enterprise data architecture. Each vendor system had its own data model with no overall integration strategy, necessitating translation and therefore error. A lack of straight…
Blowback from the Rush to BYOD
UBS Global Asset Management has nearly gone through a full bring-your-own-device (BYOD) lifecycle already. It introduced the program almost by accident, after what was supposed to be a limited pilot with a couple of interns. Word spread, employees…
IBOR: Where OMS, Portfolio Analytics, and Fund Accounting Intersect
Buy-Side Technology’s North American Summit last week hosted an inventor. Andrew Meisel, while at Barclays Global Investors, created and coined the term “investment book of record,” or IBOR. The concept has picked up considerable traction in the last…
Lazard CRO: Risk System Useless Unless You Can Absorb the Data
During a panel at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, Misys senior risk advisor Bradley Ziff called for a "vast increase" in the types of risk analytics that buy-side firms make available to themselves, pointing to the increased capital in buy…
TowerGroup's Shahrawat: Risk Analytics Slowly Coming to the Fore on the Buy Side
A survey by CEB TowerGroup shows that while 58 percent of buy-side firms consider risk analytics a business-critical element of technology infrastructure, only 17 percent consider it an edge. Senior research director Dushyant Shahrawat, who gave a…
After Success in Fixed Income, TESI Eyes FX
The Trading Enablement Standardization Initiative (TESI), an industry working group comprising major sell-side banks, is targeting enablement of buy-side firms onto foreign exchange (FX) electronic dealing platforms through automated protocols.
In 2014, CTOs to Balance Expectations, Budgets and Security; Answer BYOD Demand
To close out the CTO panel at the Buy-Side Technology North America Summit, the CTOs were asked to give predictions for 2014. Here’s how they answered.
Vendor Relationships are Changing, Say CTOs
The pace of technology change has increased such that Fidelity Investments is reconsidering the length of its enterprise license agreements (ELAs) with vendors, CTO Mihir Shah revealed during a conversation about vendor relationships at the Buy-Side…
BST North American Summit 2013: Capital Markets Tech Isn't Cool Anymore
“When I started my career, being in the financial services industry was the place to be. What happened?” With those words, Lord Abbett's head of IT operations, Nathan Boylan, summed up a rather raw opening segment to the mobility panel at the Buy-Side…
BST North American Summit 2013 CTO Panel: Tell the Business What You're Building, But Don't Let Them Buy the Drills
How many of you have cluttered garages, Jeff Hurley, CTO at the $188 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, asked the audience at the recent New York-hosted Buy-Side Technology North American Summit.
BST North American Summit 2013: AIG's Mary Kotch on Smaller Footprints, Better Talent
The CTO for AIG IT Americas, who has been leading the firm's tech reorganization and data center consolidation efforts, has seen everything from a new cyber war games initiative to an unexpected presence-via an acquisition-in Amazon's public cloud. Still…
Central Clearing Blurs the Line Between Front and Back Office
The biggest impact that the new centrally-cleared derivatives regime is having on buy-side infrastructure is an organizational one, said Michael O’Brien, director of global trading at Eaton Vance, at the Buy-Side Technology North America Summit.