Victor Anderson
Victor Anderson is editor-in-chief of Waters magazine and WatersTechnology. He joined the Risk Waters Group, now part of Incisive Media, in 2001. Victor was born and grew up in South Africa and was an English, History of Art and Director of Sports teacher before making the change to journalism. Before leaving South Africa, while working for Redsand Publishing, he edited a number of magazines for the United Cricket Board of South Africa, the South African Rugby Football Union, and the Professional Golfers' Association of South Africa.
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Progressive embraces business continuity challenge
Business continuity rose to prominence in the wake of the September 11 attacks, as firms of all sizes sought to develop contingency plans as a way of mitigating the business and operational risks resulting from systems failures. By Victor Anderson*
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…
Operations: the way forward
The last decade has produced a remarkable transformation in the front office - especially from a buy-side perspective - although current trends suggest that operations and risk management will hold the spotlight over the next 10 years. More than ever,…
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…
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…
Aviva Investors connects to Calastone
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business and wholly owned subsidiary of Aviva plc, has signed an agreement to make its UK-domiciled retail funds available via the global Calastone transaction network. Aviva Investors' third-party…
Editor's Letter - The greed for speed
Speed is good. At least, when it comes to the increasingly popular phenomenon of high-frequency trading it is. Speed plays such a crucial role in this respect that if it were absent, high-frequency trading (HFT) would simply be known as... trading.
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…
Month in Numbers
"With CEP, we were able to develop our first strategy - of course it was a simple one - within days. We were able to connect that strategy, locally test it, and now we're running it in Brazil and the US"
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…
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…