Trading Tech
Revised GIPS standards focus on pricing and risk management
The CFA Institute, the Virginia-based investment industry group, has rolled out a new version of its Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) emphasising stronger valuation and risk management practices.
Editor's Letter - This one's a goner
Naked sponsored access is as good as gone. I cannot see how there can be any other conceivable conclusion to the SEC's January 13 proposals than an immediate ban on the practice whereby non-member trading firms are granted unsupervised access to…
Getting the balance right
Outsourcing is an established model for managing technology. For many buy-side firms, particularly smaller ones with increasingly complex technology demands, being able to access the services and skills-base of a large supplier can be an effective way to…
Opportunities and efficiencies
This month's analyst research focuses on three diverse subjects - centralised clearing of OTC instruments; the rise in popularity of commission-sharing agreements; and the development and implementation of high-performance database systems. All three…
Many moving parts
The number of compliance issues facing the buy side has little precedent in recent history, just as managers are grappling with shifting market and risk conditions in a post-recession world. The way forward is no less challenging – the obstacle is not…
Odyssey rolls out on-boarding tool to global client base
Private banking and wealth-management software developer Odyssey Financial Technologies has made its Client On-boarding & Maintenance application for more efficient and automated account opening available worldwide.
ASB Bank completes second phase of Calypso roll-out
Auckland-based ASB Bank has completed the second phase of a Calypso project to implement its cross-asset, front-to-back treasury platform for foreign exchange, money market, interest-rate derivatives and risk (including limit management, enterprise risk,…
Spotlight on Gil Shaked
Gil Shaked, former chief executive at hedge fund service provider EXENET and managing director of Credit Suisse's Prime Services and Alternative Investments business, is no stranger to buy-side managers' concerns about latency. Now chief executive at…
GlobeOp offers Linedata ASP to long-short clients
GlobeOp Financial Services, the hedge fund administrator with $106 billion in client assets under administration, has rolled out a hosted version of Linedata Services' LongView Trading order management system fully integrated with its middle- and back…
Netage survey results highlight importance of investor portals
Netage Solutions, a Watertown, MA-based provider of CRM software and online reporting systems to the alternative asset management industry, has published the results of a recent survey in which it claims that a large portion of alternative investment…
Omgeo's Japanese presence grows
Omgeo, a provider of technology and services to support post-trade efficiency, has relaunched the Japanese-language version of its website. This comes on the back of a 27% growth in business in Japan in the past three years. Trade volumes processed…
SmartPool sets new dark pool benchmarks
SmartPool, the European dark liquidity pool created by NYSE Euronext in partnership with HSBC, JP Morgan and BNP Paribas, has reported record trading volumes for January and significant growth following its migration to NYSE Euronext's Universal Trading…
Pension power plays
In early 2009, House Call noted that $200 billion pension fund manager California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest in the US, announced intentions to get tough with hedge fund managers seeking its capital, requiring more…