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Lazard CRO: Risk System Useless Unless You Can Absorb the Data
During a panel at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, Misys senior risk advisor Bradley Ziff called for a "vast increase" in the types of risk analytics that buy-side firms make available to themselves, pointing to the increased capital in buy…
TowerGroup's Shahrawat: Risk Analytics Slowly Coming to the Fore on the Buy Side
A survey by CEB TowerGroup shows that while 58 percent of buy-side firms consider risk analytics a business-critical element of technology infrastructure, only 17 percent consider it an edge. Senior research director Dushyant Shahrawat, who gave a…
After Success in Fixed Income, TESI Eyes FX
The Trading Enablement Standardization Initiative (TESI), an industry working group comprising major sell-side banks, is targeting enablement of buy-side firms onto foreign exchange (FX) electronic dealing platforms through automated protocols.
In 2014, CTOs to Balance Expectations, Budgets and Security; Answer BYOD Demand
To close out the CTO panel at the Buy-Side Technology North America Summit, the CTOs were asked to give predictions for 2014. Here’s how they answered.
Vendor Relationships are Changing, Say CTOs
The pace of technology change has increased such that Fidelity Investments is reconsidering the length of its enterprise license agreements (ELAs) with vendors, CTO Mihir Shah revealed during a conversation about vendor relationships at the Buy-Side…
Axioma Launches Multi-Asset Risk Management Platform
Software vendor Axioma has announced the introduction of Axioma Risk, its multi-asset class risk management platform.
Swift VAN Passes ENAT
Swift has announced that its value-added network (VAN) for the Target2-Securities (T2S) project has passed the final milestone in a major test cycle.
BST North American Summit 2013: Capital Markets Tech Isn't Cool Anymore
“When I started my career, being in the financial services industry was the place to be. What happened?” With those words, Lord Abbett's head of IT operations, Nathan Boylan, summed up a rather raw opening segment to the mobility panel at the Buy-Side…
BST North American Summit 2013 CTO Panel: Tell the Business What You're Building, But Don't Let Them Buy the Drills
How many of you have cluttered garages, Jeff Hurley, CTO at the $188 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, asked the audience at the recent New York-hosted Buy-Side Technology North American Summit.
Bats Chi-X Europe Rolls Out Trade Reporting Services
European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Bats Chi-X Europe has announced the introduction of BXTR, a suite of trade reporting services for the pan-European trading community.
Instinet Launches ‘Indigo' Trade Analytics Platform
Instinet has added a new web-based trade analytics platform ─ dubbed Indigo ─ to its analytics suite.
BBH Introduces New Corporate Actions Tool
Part of Brown Brothers Harriman's Infomediary platform, InfoAction will help institutional asset managers streamline their corporate actions workflow applications.
Eka Software Gets Boost with Silver Lake Kraftwerk Investment
The Bangalore-based platform provider for commodities trading has received a strategic investment from $20 billion private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, as part of the technology investor's growth capital Kraftwerk fund.
Evanston Capital Management Jumps Into Gravitas Cloud
Evanston Capital Management (ECM), an Illinois-based fund of funds, has migrated its core servers and applications to the Gravitas Private Cloud, a project completed in less than six months.
Trotter Leaves MSCI for BI-SAM
Paris-headquartered vendor BI-SAM has announced that Jim Trotter will take up the post of managing director, performance and reporting services, at the firm.
Nice Actimize Partners Ullink for Trade Data
Nice Actimize has announced a partnership with Ullink, whereby data from the latter's global routing network will be used to inform market surveillance practices for the vendor's customers.
Squawker Completes European Launch
Pan-European venue Squawker has announced that its initial roll-out across Europe has been completed, with over 70 sell-side firms signed on to the service.
BST North American Summit 2013: Catching Up with Fortress Investment Group's Hylton Socher
Jake Thomases speaks with Hylton Socher, CTO at Fortress Investment Group, who gave the keynote address at Buy-Side Technology's 2013 North American Summit.
BST North American Summit 2013: Bradley Ziff of Misys on Emerging Buy-Side Risk Drivers
Misys's senior risk advisor Bradley Ziff talks with Waters about emerging macroeconomic and regulatory risks affecting the buy side.
BST North American Summit 2013: StatPro CEO Justin Wheatley Talks Cloud-based Analytics
Justin Wheatley, StatPro's chief executive, talks portfolio analytics and their importance in broader buy-side data management.
BST North American Summit 2013: Talking IBOR with SimCorp's David Kubersky
Waters chats with SimCorp managing director David Kubersky about the relative merits of the Investment Book of Record (IBOR) concept sweeping the buy side.
Wells Fargo Connects to Eris Exchange's SwapBook
The bank will serve as both a liquidity provider and futures commission merchant (FCM) for Chicago-based Eris Exchange, the swaps execution facility specializing in interest rate swaps and offering a proprietary swaps future product.
Caceis Debuts Collateral Management Offering
Asset servicing provider Caceis has released its foray into the collateral management market with Collateral Express.
BST North American Summit 2013: AIG's Mary Kotch on Smaller Footprints, Better Talent
The CTO for AIG IT Americas, who has been leading the firm's tech reorganization and data center consolidation efforts, has seen everything from a new cyber war games initiative to an unexpected presence-via an acquisition-in Amazon's public cloud. Still…