Articles by Anthony Malakian
Lighthouse Taps SS&C GlobeOp for CVA
Investment management firm Lighthouse Partners, which serves fund of hedge funds, will use fund administrator SS&C GlobeOp to perform credit value adjustment (CVA) calculations.
Buy-Side Firms Grapple With 24-Hour Global Tech, Operations
At a recent conference in New York, major buy-side firms discussed the significant IT and staffing-related challenges associated with growing their businesses globally.
The Challenges of 24/7
As more firms look to expand their global presences, operations and technology units are being tested in new ways as they try to support a 24-hour business.
Sapient Sees Frankfurt as Center for Growth
Sapient Global Markets has its sights set on Germany after opening a new office in Frankfurt in the third quarter of 2012, with additional hires on the horizon.
CEP comes of age (Part Two): The need for real time in Risk Management Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 13, 2013, the final in a series of two, to discuss the changing role and continued adoption of complex event processing (CEP) as the engine at the heart of the drive to real time across the…
Hedge Fund Technologists Give Back
Next week, the Alternative Investment Technology Executives Club (AITEC) will hold its first annual charity golf event. Anthony applauds its efforts.
DataArt Partners with 10gen for Data Aggregation, Opera Reporting
Software provider DataArt is teaming up with 10gen, which develops the MongoDB NoSQL open-source database, to tackle challenges related to big data and the aggregation of data. The first result of this pairing is a reporting solution for the proposed…
Dodd-Frank Grows Up So Fast
July will mark the three-year anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the Dodd–Frank Act into law. Anthony wonders what's ahead.
Advent Enhances APX, Moxy in Cloud Push
San Francisco-based Advent Software has released upgraded versions of Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), its portfolio management platform, and Moxy, its trade order management system. This rollout also includes enhancements to Advent Rules Manager and…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative ─ Pershing
For better or worse, the days of employees being tethered to their desks are gone. The Apple iPad, and to a lesser degree, other tablet devices, have revolutionized the capital markets and morphed technologists, portfolio managers and, yes, even traders,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side ─ Activ Financial
When Activ Financial launched in 2002, it was considered a low-latency, options specialist. But the plan was always to expand and become a major player in the world of market data. Fast forward to 2013 and Activ has a distribution network across North…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology ─ Progress Apama
Complex-event processing (CEP) engines are hardly new, but the way they’re now being employed has changed dramatically. CEP once held dominion solely in the front-office realm of low-latency trading. But in recent years, CEP has spread throughout the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side ─ BT Group
At their core, cloud environments come down to three things: scale, connectivity and security. BT has all three areas covered in spades with its BT Radianz Cloud, winner of the best cloud provider to the sell side category in this year’s Sell-Side…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product ─ LCH.Clearnet
In the wake of the global financial crisis, the ability to monitor and manage margin requirements has become paramount for sell-side firms—after all, none would want to make similar headlines to those made by Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers back in 2008.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product ─ Numerix
Since the financial crisis, counterparty risk has earned its place as arguably the most important exposure to manage accurately on an ongoing basis. The fallout from the crisis has meant a greater focus on counterparty risk, either because of new…
Anthony Malakian: A Data Chief on the Buy Side? Not So Fast
Some large banks have created the role of chief data officer in recent years. However, Anthony says this is not a trend that is likely to catch on anytime soon on the buy side.
SST Awards 2013: Jim Jockle, Numerix
Jim Jockle, chief marketing officer at Numerix, speaks to Waters’ Jake Thomases at the 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards, held in the New York Marriott Marquis.
Citi Opens ‘Open' to Client Base, Improves Order Entry and SOR
After working with its buy-side clients and vendors, Citi made several announcements today: It will now make available its Citi Open algorithm to its entire client base; it has enhanced its Citi Close algorithm; it has redesigned its global order-entry…
A Look at this Year's BST European Summit
Across the pond in London this week, Incisive Media held its annual Buy-Side Technology European Summit. Anthony looks at the coverage.
Hoppe Joins b-next
Market surveillance and compliance software provider b-next has added Stefan Hoppe as a sales manager.
Misys Rolls Out Sophis Value, Version 5
Software provider Misys has unveiled version 5 of its portfolio and risk management platform, Sophis Value. This upgrade includes an updated user interface and has more functionality for risk management.
Bloomberg Screws Up with Spying Scandal, But the End Ain't Near
Bloomberg has certainly suffered an embarrassing episode recently, but Anthony says no one should expect a sea change in the terminal market anytime soon.
CEP Comes of Age (Part One): The Need for Real Time at the Heart of the Enterprise Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on May 16, 2013 to discuss the changing role and continued adoption of complex event processing (CEP) as the engine at the heart of the drive to real time across the enterprise.
ConvergEx Launches Tax Solution for Brokers
ConvergEx Prime Services, the company's prime brokerage unit, has released Tax Optimizer, which will allow users to better understand their tax liabilities.