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Finding the Right Building Blocks
In recent years, buy-side firms have been looking increasingly at EDM offerings, but not all have found it an easy task. Buy-side users want flexible and up-to-date data models and platforms implemented on time and on budget. Tine Thoresen asks if the…
Outsourcing is in
With talks of reducing costs, limited budgets and the need for immediate economic benefits, outsourcing is taking a central role in the data world. Carla Mangado explores to what extent the financial instability has affected this space and what is yet to…
Tight Ships
Cost reduction is predicted to supersede all data management initiatives in 2009. But this does not mean a huge decrease in budgets. It simply means significant proportions of budgets will be spent reviewing existing data sources and introducing cost…
Xenomorph TimeScape Implementation Enables Flexible Data Integration at Insight Investment
LONDON - Software vendor Xenomorph's implementation of data management and pricing system TimeScape has enabled Insight Investment, the asset manager of the Halifax and Bank of Scotland group, to merge the IT systems and business processes of the three…
National Securities live on SunGard's Brass OMS
National Securities, an independent full service brokerage, is live on SunGard's Brass OMS using the new Brass ASP virtual server delivery model.
Commercial Union signs with Linedata for Poland fund compliance
Commercial Union Mutual Funds Company in Poland with approximately $1.9 billion under management has signed with Linedata Systems for the vendor's Linedata Compliance application.
USAble Life selects iWorks
USAble Life has selected SunGard's iWorks to help it build, deploy, administer and sell group insurance and worksite products as well as provide a web-enabled business environment to its clients and partners.
New ClariFI release targets 'quantimental' managers
New York based ClariFI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard & Poor's and part of S&P's Capital IQ business, has unveiled the latest version of its flagship offering, ModelStation v4.0. The most significant enhancement in 4.0 is the inclusion of Event…
Reining in derivatives
Expectations are high that new US Congressional efforts to require hedge fund registration with the SEC will succeed this year, opening the door to greater oversight of the industry by a regulator no doubt eager to prove its mettle following the…
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…
Spotlight on Richard Tibbetts
StreamBase Systems has promoted one of its founders, Richard Tibbetts, to chief technology officer. He speaks with Stewart Eisenhart about ongoing efforts to expand the use of complex event processing among buy-side managers, as well as his work on the…