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Fidessa unveils new global analytics platform
Fidessa has launched its new global analytics platform designed to enable users to conduct complex, real-time pre-trade, intra-day and post-trade calculations from multiple data sources. The analytics platform is available through the Fidessa OMS,…
Growth by design
Odyssey Financial Technologies is a good example of a technology vendor that has grown its business through judicious acquisitions, to the point that now, from a buy-side perspective, it supports a range of mission-critical front-office functions via its…
Instinet introduces Newport 3 EMS
Instinet, the New York-based provider of electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, has launched Newport 3, its third-generation EMS (execution management system). According to Instinet, the platform includes enhancements to performance,…
HedgeOp launches Adviser Platform
HedgeOp Compliance, a New York-based provider of specialised compliance software and consulting services to the asset management industry, has released the ComplianceTrak Adviser platform, a tool designed to help small and mid-size registered investment…
Right place right time
Client reporting has taken on new levels of significance over the past 18 months in the wake of the sub-prime fiasco and the ensuing contraction of the global financial services industry. Buy-side firms, arguably more so now than at any time in the past,…
Addressing the buy side's needs
FINCAD is by no means a newcomer to the buy-side risk management space having been founded almost two decades ago. But rather than resting on its well-documented laurels, the Canadian vendor continues to sign new contracts, while its substantial client…
Omgeo unveils counterparty risk offering
Omgeo has announced the availability of its counterparty risk management platform, comprising Omgeo ProtoColl (formerly Allustra Kyros), the firm's automated collateral management offering; and Omgeo CrossCheck (formerly Global Electronic Market's FpML…
Algo banks on the buy side
One name, arguably now more so than any other, is synonymous with risk management technology: Algorithmics. In the past, however, Algo's offerings enjoyed strong sell-side traction but only relatively modest buy-side up-take due to a blend of heady price…
SunGard rolls out European managed access and SOR services
SunGard has completed the roll-out of its new ASP-based managed access and smart order routing services for major European equity trading platforms.
Born to perform
Since its inception just under nine years ago, BI-SAM has been quietly going about its business focusing on performance and attribution, risk, and reporting functions for buy-side firms. It is therefore no surprise that the Paris-based vendor has added…
Bloomberg unveils new portfolio analytics
Bloomberg has added an analytics tool to its suite of buy-side trading systems that includes POMS (Portfolio Order Manage-ment System) and POMS-AI (Portfolio Order Management System for Alternative Investors).
Quod unveils buy-side SOR offering
Trading software vendor Quod Financial is testing a new smart order routing system for buy-side firms that will integrate post-trade data from exchanges and other trading venues including dark liquidity pools.
Xtrakter launches mark-to-market valuation service
Xtrakter has launched XM2M, a mark-to-market valuation service designed to assist inter-dealer brokers and market makers with the accurate valuation of their securities.