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OTAS Launches Developer Toolkit for Visual Analytics
API and visualization toolkit assists developers in building applications that integrate OTAS analytics and visual elements
BGC Extends Tender Offer for GFI
Interdealer broker adds to deadline as it settles breach of rules with FCA.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Alessandro Ferrari, Rimes
Alessandro Ferrari, SVP of global marketing at Rimes Technologies, speaks with James Rundle of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Robert Sloan, S3 Partners
Robert Sloan, managing partner at S3 Partners, speaks with Timothy Murray of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue—Liquidnet
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards have witnessed a handful of new winners, as well as several former champions retaking the crown. But perhaps in no other category is stability more ensured than that of the best buy-side execution venue, where the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics Product—SunGard Financial Systems
Pennsylvania-based software giant SunGard taking this year’s award for providing the buy side’s premier risk and portfolio analytics product is far from a massive upset—the vendor’s stable of buy-side solutions is enviable and arguably unmatched across…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
While the buy side can claim tremendous gains furnishing its own technology, and in some cases even commoditizing it in recent years, the sell side remains one of the most important sources of technology for investment managers. This category is a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service—FlexTrade
Trying to pinpoint the best algorithmic or direct market access (DMA) provider to the buy side is a lot like picking among multiple choice answers on a law school entrance exam: Almost all of them seem right, depending on your line of argument, but only…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BI-SAM
Competition is fierce among technology vendors serving the performance measurement and attribution space, but for the seventh consecutive year, the Buy-Side Technology Awards’ judging panel found BI-SAM’s B-One platform to be the performance measurement…
Goldman Sachs Invests in Big Data Analytics Start-Up
Goldman becomes the largest strategic investor in Kensho
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
New offering targets boutique firms.
BSE to Implement Solarflare Technology
OpenOnload and Solarflare Precision Time to be used on BSE.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—BT
BT Group returns to the winners’ circle in the Buy-Side Technology Awards this year with its Radianz platform, reinforcing its preeminent position in the cloud space by complementing its wins in both the 2014 Waters Rankings and the 2014 Sell-Side…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—Datawatch Corp.
Despite the fact that many are still uncomfortable with the term “big data,” the impact it has had on an increasingly diversified and electronic financial services industry is incontrovertible. Other industries already employ big-data analytics to…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side CRM Platform—Advent Software
After a year away from the winners’ circle, Advent Software has reclaimed the award for the best buy-side customer relationship management (CRM) product thanks to a combination of two of its offerings: Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) and Advent Direct…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The best fund administrator category has never been the most popular in terms of the number of entries it has attracted since its 2009 debut in the Buy-Side Technology Awards. But that is understandable, given the modest number of organizations making up…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—Advent Software
In a year when the investment book of record (IBOR) received its own dedicated category for the first time, few can argue the immediacy and importance now squarely placed upon portfolio accounting across the business of the buy side. From newly…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Michael Cooper, BT
Michael Cooper, CTO of the financial technology business in BT Global Banking and Financial Markets, speaks with James Rundle of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Diane McLoughlin, Eagle Investment Systems
Diane McLoughlin, head of relationship management, Americas and middle-office outsourcing at Eagle Investment Systems speaks with Marina Daras of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Agility the Key for Market Survival
ETAS coverage and emerging exchanges lead this week's Sell-Side Technology round-up.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Low-Latency Trading Network—CFN Services
Topics such as underground fiber and microwaves connecting market centers have caught the public’s imagination of late, although the average person is still oblivious to how much trading information is being zapped across nations in milliseconds. For CFN…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side IBOR Platform—SimCorp
It’s hard to think of many industry issues in recent years that have rallied a level of widespread interest and support as the investment book of record (IBOR). The technology behind IBOR isn’t particularly new—indeed, documented examples of these…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—Essentia Analytics
It’s tough being a start-up in the financial services industry, regardless of how great one’s products or services might be, the extent of one’s seed capital, or the depth of intellectual capital and experience one’s principals might possess. This is a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side TCA Tool—ITG
While transaction-cost analysis (TCA) as a concept has been around the capital markets for a long time, the technologies supporting such functions have never had to be as rich or sophisticated as they do now. Buy-side clients expect not only basic…