Articles by Jake Thomases
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue─Liquidnet
When you think buy-side block trading, you think Liquidnet. The 13-year-old crossing network remains the pre-eminent player in the movement of institutional orders, even as order sizes continue to be shredded in dark venues globally. Liquidnet has…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side CEP Product/Service─Progress Software
Back in the late 1990s, two Cambridge University computer science graduates conducted research into new data structures for pattern matching in high-velocity streaming data. That research became the foundation of a software company that the two founded…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Service/Platform─SmartStream Technologies
Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform/Service, one of the newest Buy-Side Technology Awards categories, was created in 2010 as the buy side leaned heavily on vendors to automate post-trade needs for the reduction of back-office costs. And though there…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side─BT
A new category in this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards, Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side has gone to a company that provides the best combination of scale, global reach, and security to the buy side: BT, for its BT Radianz Cloud, which supports the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Compliance Platform─Fidessa
Fidessa has an enviable track record in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, having won a category every year since the awards launched in 2007, although its 2007 and 2008 wins in the best buy-side execution management system (EMS) category, its 2008 and 2009…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology─UBS
The engineers behind UBS Delta consider themselves flexible and innovative like a software company, but with the resources and support of their enormous parent bank. Since its inception 14 years ago, the portfolio risk and performance system has catered…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Portfolio Accounting Platform─Multifonds
In one of the bigger upsets of this year’s awards, Luxembourg-based Multifonds has ended Advent Geneva’s five-year run atop this category. It did so by approaching portfolio accounting through a single integrated platform, rather than separate systems…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform/Service─Trading Technologies
It is testament to X_Trader’s breadth that the multi-asset platform has captured this category four years running. The buy side can rely on X_Trader, Chicago-based Trading Technologies’ flagship offering, for synthetic spreading, charting, and analytics…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side EMS─Portware
Just as RealTick won the execution management system (EMS) award last year after being bought by ConvergEx, Portware earned the win in this perennially competitive category thanks largely to an acquisition of its own. In May, the company acquired a suite…
Jake Thomases: Work: That Thing You Do
Mobile technology combined with a generational shift in the attitude about work are beginning to break the traditional 9-to-5 mold. Cutting-edge sell-side firms are warming to this trend, and, Jake says, could save millions of dollars in the process.
Lombard Risk Releases Compliance Tool
David Wilford has been tapped to head the dedicated product team, as well as future compliance endeavors.
Predictions About Final SEF Headcount Drop
As the real-live launch of real-life swap execution facilities (SEFs) draws closer, a group of derivative experts predict that there will be fewer entrants than previously estimated.
Metisq Upgrades to Charles River IMS v9
Metisq Capital, an Australian boutique equity manager, has upgraded to Version 9 of the Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS) to expand its international equity fund management for Asia and Greater China.
Advise Reporting Tools Made Available on Abacus Private Cloud
Consensus RMS is used to file regulatory forms requiring high granularity, like Form PF.
RTS and Squared Team Up on Algo Platform
The companies are trying to attract traders who want to delve into spot FX and metals for hedging purposes.
Fountain Made CTO at Pneuron
He will lead efforts by the Massachusetts computing vendor top move more deeply into the enterprise market space.
FircoSoft Moves into India with Peocit's Help
Watchlist filtering solutions produced by the French firm will allow Indian banks to better meet regulatory KYC requirements.
Cloud's Green Reputation May Be Overblown
Cloud computing provides obvious efficiencies in both cost and energy consumption. But behind the good vibes are some overlooked ways that large datacenters may be hurting the environment.
Using Gnodal Switches, Emulex Builds a Network Congestion Reducer
Network latency has been reduced by half in tests, ideal for high frequency trading.
Mexican Bank Adopts SunGard For Treasury Management
The Front Arena solution supports trading and portfolio management, among other Banca Afirme needs.
Progress To Make Available Beta Version of Connectivity Solution
The DataDirect Cloud service will be fully delivered in the second quarter of next year.
PNC Makes Van Wyk Head of Tech and Ops
The former ING COO takes over for 29-year veteran Tom Whitford.
Deutsche Bank Launches Application-based Fund Solution
The Autobahn App Market gives access to research and analytics through a single sign-on environment.
South African Depository Turns to TCS BaNCS
Strate will replace its legacy bond market system with one from the South African vendor.