Trading Tech
Eskom signs for SunGard's AvantGard
Eskom, the South African parastatal and the country's primary electricity supplier producing approximately 95% of South Africa's electricity, has selected SunGard's AvantGard platform for treasury management.
BNY ConvergEx Group rolls out buy-side dark pool service
BNY ConvergEx Group, the agency brokerage and technology provider, has launched a new execution service, the Dark Desk, through which the firm's traders can more efficiently execute orders on behalf of buy-side and hedge fund clients across dark venues.
The more prime broker relationships, the better
Large and mid-tier hedge funds have been trimming the numbers of their prime broker relationships over the past two years, eliminating redundancies and gaining operational efficiencies. But that may change in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse and…
Month in Numbers
"Clearly we don't use carrier pigeons - the point I was trying to make is that the industry is still very much transfixed by the 'Henry Ford' approach to technology, which allows you to do things faster. But that's not necessarily how you make money"
Augustus takes CMA's CDS data for risk management
Augustus Asset Managers has integrated end-of-day credit default swap data from credit and derivatives pricing vendor Credit Market Analysis into its Derivation risk management system.
Bank of Ireland licenses SunGard Asset Arena
Bank of Ireland Securities Services (BoISS), a Dublin-based fund administrator and custodian, has transferred its funds onto SunGard's Asset Arena accounting platform.
Seeing the wood for the trees
The nuances between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Application Service Provision are often misunderstood, although, perhaps not altogether ignored. But while the variations between the two may not be of utmost importance to the buy-side firm accessing…
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