Algorithmics charts new course in year-plus after SS&C acquisition
After eight years with IBM, Algorithmics has grown its staff significantly in the year since SS&C bought the risk analytics provider. The vendor is now taking aim at tapping into SS&C’s roster of buy-side users by embedding with the likes of Advent and Eze Software.
Algorithmics, which started doing business in 1989, has known relative stability in its product line, establishing its bona fides in the realms of market risk analytics and regulatory services. It’s on the M&A front that the changes have occurred.
In the 21st century, the vendor has been acquired three times. At the start of 2005, Fitch Group bought Algorithmics for $175 million. Then, in late 2011, it was tech behemoth IBM acquiring Algorithmics for about $380 million. That pairing was also
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