Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021 Winner's Interview: BlackRock (front-office platform)

Victor Anderson chats to Tarek Chouman, global head of business development at BlackRock, about his firm’s win in the best integrated front-office platform category in the recent BST Awards. In this interview they discuss: 

  • What separates Aladdin from other integrated front-office platforms on the market in a category traditionally dominated by a small number of large, well-established players. 
  • The thinking behind BlackRock’s integration of eFront and Climate Analytics into the Aladdin platform over the course of the last year. 
  • The buy side’s most pressing issues right now from a front-office perspective, and how Aladdin is addressing those issues.
  • What the buy side can expect from the Aladdin platform over the course of the next 12 months in terms of new features and functionality.