Tech
BNY's AccessEdge Collateral Portal Connects to Bloomberg
BNY Mellon has added a link with Bloomberg to its AccessEdge collateral management portal, allowing collateral receivers and providers to instruct collateral trades from the Bloomberg Professional service.
Advent Makes Across-the-Board Upgrades
San Francisco-based Advent Software has added functionality to its Geneva, Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), Moxy, Advent Rules Manager, and Advent Revenue Center products.
Heward Takes SS&C's Wealth Management Platform
Heward Investment Management has selected SS&C Technologies' Global Wealth Platform (GWP), the vendor has announced.
IBOR Breakfast Briefing: People and Patronage Part of the Puzzle
Panelists at Waters' recent breakfast briefing on the investment book of record (IBOR), discussed practical methods of implementing an IBOR system at a buy-side firm, saying that while technology is important, the key to a successful project is often the…
Backed by Calypso, OTC Clearing Hong Kong Completes First RMB Swap
The non-deliverable forward renminbi seven-day repo swap was executed last week using the financial technology provider's central counterparty (CCP) over-the-counter (OTC) clearing solution and collateral management module.
Fidelity Adds Conditional Orders to Service Bureau
A catchy name can go a long way toward making a product popular. Fidelity’s bland-branded Service Bureau must be doing it some other way.
Charles River Adds ‘The Yield Book' to IMS
Charles River has added real-time mortgage analytics from The Yield Book into its investment management solution, Charles River IMS, in an effort to grow its fixed income decision-making capabilities.
BNY Mellon Launches Liquidity Administration Service
BNY Mellon is rolling out a new liquidity administration service for funds of hedge funds and pension plans.
Markit Lands BBVA Asset Management for EDM
BBVA Asset Management has selected Markit's enterprise data management (EDM) platform in an effort to cut costs by streamlining its operations, while minimizing operational risk, according to Daniel Simpson, managing director and head of enterprise…
IBOR Breakfast Briefing: Buy versus Build Debate Rages On
Panelists at a breakfast briefing on the investment book of record (IBOR), hosted by Waters, typified the continuing debate over how an IBOR system should be delivered at investment firms, with some praising the vendor route, and others claiming that the…
IBOR Breakfast Briefing: Projects Should Make a Firm Feel ‘Small’
Jon Rushman, professor of practice in the finance group at Warwick University Business School, said in his keynote address to an investment book of record (IBOR) breakfast briefing hosted by Waters, that the central idea behind an IBOR is making a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2013—Eagle Investment Systems
By winning the most prestigious category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the second of two awards announced at the awards luncheon on November 1, Eagle Investment Systems created a little bit of history by becoming the first company to do so…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Winners' Circle—Eagle Investment Systems
With its second win in the best overall buy-side technology provider category, Eagle Investment Systems has proved once again that it is at the top of its game. John Lehner, Eagle’s president and CEO, talks to Waters about cloud on the buy side, what he…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Buy-Side Product for 2013—LCH.Clearnet
The penultimate category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the best buy-side product of the year, was the first of only two awards announced on the day of the BST Awards luncheon on November 1 in London. Each of the 26 individual category winners…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best TCA Provider to the Buy Side—ITG
This is only the second year of this category’s existence, but you wouldn’t guess it from checking all the transaction-cost analysis (TCA) products on offer in the market. It means any provider needs to go that much farther to stand out, especially since…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—Datawatch Corporation
Big data is rapidly emerging as one of the more contentious terms in modern buy-side technology. Some people argue that it’s absolutely a new phenomenon; others contend that it’s always been there, and it’s just the relativistic levels of data compared…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative—LCH.Clearnet
The award bonanza for LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear Margin Approximation Risk Tool (Smart) continues thanks to a savvy partnership with the Bloomberg Professional Service, which has exposed it to potentially over 300,000 pairs of eyes. Bloomberg in August…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—Microsoft
When you think of the term “cloud technology,” Microsoft is top-of-mind even for decidedly non-technologists. The buy side has only relatively recently come around to the idea of using cloud-based technologies to cut costs and save resources, even though…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform—SmartStream Technologies
This is the fourth year that the best reconciliation platform or service category has been included in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, and for the fourth straight year, SmartStream has taken home the award. The London-based vendor’s success can be…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best CEP Product—OneMarketData
OneMarketData returns to the winners’ circle this year in the complex-event processing (CEP) category, thanks to its OneTick offering, by making a case for its mastery over the continuously ballooning volume of data flooding investment firms, both…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side CRM Product—Digiterre
Digiterre couldn’t hold onto the customer relationship management (CRM) award after snagging it for the first time in 2010, but nor could Satuit or Advent, which won in 2011 and 2012, respectively. In the interim, Digiterre has added a series of modules…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—Vermilion Software
Only one category in the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards—the best implementation at a buy-side firm—specifically considers the practical implications of a third-party provider’s technology from an end-user’s perspective. This category, therefore, is…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The job of fund administration has become increasingly onerous as hedge funds are relying more and more on their administrators for regulatory compliance support. Form PF created a new reporting paradigm on the buy side, which has since expanded with…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—DealVector
Like penicillin, DealVector was born by random chance. Michael Manning went to Princeton and became a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, while David Jefferds went there and became a dealer in structured credit. Decades later, the two found themselves on the…