Trading Tech
The Costs of Change
Since the UK's Financial Services Authority recently published a consultation paper on liquidity risk, the topic has appeared on the agenda at industry events. But market participants are concerned about tight deadlines and costly implementations. Carla…
Time For a New Architecture
New compliance requirements mean the data and overall system architecture must provide a host of capabilities, says Sybase's Irfan Khan
Counterparty Risk - Reducing Counterparty Risk
The recent market turmoil has highlighted the need for improved counterparty data management, making counterparty risk a number one priority for firms. Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry professionals to discuss the importance of effective…
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…