Trading Tech
Best sourcing: buying in what you can't do without
In the wake of the downturn, financial institutions are relying on their trading and compliance technology to support their businesses in more ways than ever before. They need it to be robust enough to deal with the rigours of an increasingly complex…
AlphaOne looks to SEI for middle- and back-office support
AlphaOne Capital Partners, a London-based equity-focused money manager founded by former Gartmore chief executive Paul Hondros, has selected SEI to provide it with a middle- and back-office outsourcing service for its portfolio of investment products.
SimCorp introduces new front-office suite
Copenhagen-based specialist buy-side technology provider SimCorp has released a new front-office suite within SimCorp Dimension, its front-to back-office investment management platform. The suite features scalable front-office support for portfolio…
Middle-office move
A decade ago, the typical buy-side firm comprised three distinct areas: the front, the middle and the back offices, each responsible for managing its own well-defined functions. But that is no longer the case as buy-side firms look to move traditional…
Algorithmics whitepaper: front office driving credit value adjustment
The market volatility experi enced during the 2008 financial crisis has forced financial institutions to reassess their traditional approach to counterparty credit risk. A number of banks have moved beyond the control mindset of credit limits to…
Maitland stops the clocks
Maitland Fund Services, based in the South African buy-side stronghold of Cape Town, has, according to Nick Baikoff, the firm's head of asset services, altered the clock speed for itself and its clients by developing a real-time front- to back-office…
SunGard integrates algo tools with QuantHouse feeds
SunGard has integrated its smart order routing and algorithmic trading tools, GL Stream and GL Tactics, with market-data feeds from QuantHouse, the Paris-based provider of ultra-low latency market-data technologies.
SunGard to use StreamBase CEP for product development
Units of financial technology juggernaut SunGard are to use StreamBase Systems' complex event processing (CEP) platform for various product and infrastructure development projects to improve delivery to end users.
DST Global Solutions launches risk consulting service
DST Global Solutions' Investment Management Solutions (IMS) business has launched a range of risk consulting services to address various aspects of buy-side firms' risk management challenges. Edward Dumas, DST Global Solutions' head of risk solutions for…
Instinet to take Asian dark-pool plunge
Dark pools, already a well-established facet of the buy-side trading landscape in the US, western European and Scandinavian markets, are primed to appear in Asia. Given the speed with which they became an integral part of the markets in which they…
A rude awakening
Many aspects of buy-side technology and operations have had to grow up fast following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Collateral management, for many firms a low-priority function entrusted to Excel spreadsheets before the credit crunch, is the stand…
Advent upgrades Geneva and APX applications
Advent Software has launched upgrades to its Geneva back-office platform and Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), the San Francisco-based vendor's portfolio management product, as part of a year-long initiative to roll-out enhancements to its entire suite.