Trading Tech
Brand New World
While the future seems bleak for some of the more traditional financial centres, a growing number of data management vendors are looking for opportunities outside London and New York. These days it is all about Asia-Pacific. Tine Thoresen explores what…
Ocean State AM takes ClariFI's ModelStation
Ocean State Asset Management, a Rhode Island-based investment advisor with about $200 million under management, has implemented ClariFI's ModelStation portfolio research, modelling, and construction platform to enhance its US domestic equities management…
Credit Suisse and Paladyne enter prime alliance
Credit Suisse and San Francisco-based Paladyne Systems, have launched an enhanced suite of Paladyne products available as part of Credit Suisse's Advanced Prime solution launched in 2006. Paladyne's multi-prime, front-to-back-office technology platform…
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…
Month in Numbers
"I can't see for a generation that you're going to get back to the environment we had previously - the fact that we have had a default on this scale means we have crossed a bridge"Mark Stancombe, head of operations at £119 billion Investment manager…
Asset managers forced to deal with counterparty risk
Traditionally, counterparty risk was always viewed as a sell-side phenomenon, but all that changed with the demise of Lehman Brothers in September last year. Now, counterparty risk has a distinctly buy-side flavour, as Sybase's Sinan Baskan explains
European wealth management technology providers adjusting to crisis
Although less affected by tumultuous financial market conditions than other sectors of the buy-side industry, the European wealth management arena has had its share of adjustments in the face of challenging conditions, requiring vendors to hone their…
StreamBase sees Aleri-Coral8 clients up for grabs following merger
As complex event processing (CEP) garners more traction among buy-side and hedge fund managers, competition among CEP vendors has become intense.
Institutional client reporting platforms set for wider uptake
Traditional asset managers and hedge funds will increase spending on client reporting platforms in coming years in order to address requirements from institutional investors and regulators for greater disclosure regarding investment strategies,…
Old dog new tricks
Linedata Services is a name long associated with the buy side through its LongView OMS, various accounting and electronic trading tools, and more recently its 2005 acquisition of Beauchamp Financial Technology. But as Victor Anderson discovers during his…
Moving ahead while the SEC plays catch-up
The SEC clearly has its work cut out for it in terms of reforming the US financial system and cracking down on the myriad criminal acts now coming to light amid withering market conditions. By Stewart Eisenhart
Baptism of fire
Counterparty risk has historically been an issue mostly for sell-side institutions to address, but the collapse of Lehman Brothers laid that notion to rest. Now, investment managers have had to get up to speed on what risks their counterparty exposures…
Spotlight on Patricia Watters and Mason Snyder
Buy-side industry veterans Patricia Watters and Mason Snyder have launched Catalina Partners, a new risk advisory firm focusing on institutional investors and investment advisors. Watters and Snyder explain that through their new venture, they will cover…
Compliance 2009: Who's pulling the strings?
Compliance, like risk management, has traditionally been seen as a business process that curtails portfolio managers’ ability to generate returns. But this has changed to the point that now managers see compliance as a way of winning mandates. By Victor…