Trading Tech
Cogency signs two more clients
New York-based Terrapin Asset Management and a $2 billion unnamed Californian investment firm have become the fourth and fifth signings for Cogency Software's Insight fund of hedge funds platform since the Burlingame, CA-based vendor shifted its…
A long time coming
The Fidessa Workstation Execution Management Service falls under this month's Product Profile spotlight
Quintillion selects Advent's Geneva platform
Dublin-based Quintillion, a fund administrator launched last year, has selected Advent's Geneva portfolio accounting system to manage its hedge fund administration operation.
Buy side to reduce reliance on proprietary algos
A recently published Tabb Group report suggests that buy-side organisations are increasingly likely to source their trading algorithms from third-party providers rather than develop them in-house. Stewart Eisenhart investigates
FinAnalytica upgrades FoHF platform
FinAnalytica, a Seattle-based provider of risk management and portfolio construction analytics based on statistical finance methodologies, has released CognityFoF version 2.7. According to the vendor, buy-side users will now have their "own unique…
Trayport grows US profile with broker-dealer win
Murphy & Durieu, the New York-based inter-dealer broker, has launched an ABS (asset-backed securities) service by rolling-out Trayport's GlobalVision platform for real-time electronic price distribution.
Old Mutual's outsourcing deal with JP Morgan
Old Mutual Asset Managers (OMAM), the Cape Town based investment manager with $40 billion under management (September 2006), has contracted JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services to manage its investment administration activities. The agreement covers…
OTC derivatives: innovation at a price
This year is likely to see the increased use of credit derivatives by buy-side institutions as traditional asset managers and hedge funds alike broaden their search for alpha. But as Jos Stoop points out, the back-office processing of these instruments…
Eisenhart: One more crystal ball
Welcome to the first edition of Buy Side Technology 's House Call column. In the coming months we will use this space to analyse issues impacting managers, their counterparties and their service providers based on what we see and hear.
Execution management systems – Flying under the radar
Execution management systems (EMS) are not new on the buy side by any means – first generation EMSs started appearing on the market some 18 months ago, although simple execution management applications have been available for the past decade. But this…
OMS Orderly conduct
ITG's Michael Roberts assesses the crucial role OMSs play in buy-side firms' execution capabilities
2007 PREVIEW: Great expectations
This year is set to be a definitive year for buy-side organisations on both sides of the Atlantic; MiFID awareness is clearly on the up as November 2007 draws inexorably closer, while the OTC credit and commodities markets still retain their lustre for…
Parnassus takes LongView to support investment strategies
Parnassus Investments, a $1.2 billion long-only manager based in San Francisco, has rolled-out Linedata's LongView Trading ASP trading and OMS to underpin its trading and compliance operations. LongView's range of functionality, pre-trade compliance…
DTCC partners with CLS bank for OTC settlement
The DTCC has selected CLS Bank to provide central settlement of payments for OTC derivatives contracts housed in DTCC Deriv/Serv's Trade Information Warehouse.
Reuters Realigns, Targets Algo News
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