Buy-Side Technology/Analysis
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side OMS—Bloomberg
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards will be remembered for a number of firsts: it’s the first year that the investment book of record (IBOR), data analytics, and low-latency trading network categories have been on offer; there were first-time winners…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side EMS—Portware
An execution-management system (EMS) is vital to buy-side firms with advanced execution criteria and this category has been shared by a number of providers in recent years. Portware finishes on top for the second time in three years, supplanting Eze…
OptionsCity's CEO Discusses Optionshop Acquisition
Clients will see new products/functionality over next 6-12 months
Sefcon V: Tech's Impact on SEFs Keeps Growing
Sefcon V looks at the impact technology has had on SEFs
Eze Software Discusses RealTick Enhancements, What's Ahead
Version 11.4 is due out Q2 2015.
Summit: Fixed Income Needs Collaboration, Better—Not Faster—Tech
More collaboration and better technology can bring liquidity back to fixed income
Canada Latest to Adopt LEI
The number of markets adopting the legal entity identifier (LEI) continues to grow.
Forget CDOs and Switch Vendors Every Two Years, Data Specialists Argue
Participants at a Waters roundtable lambast data providers, extoll virtues of hybrid model.
Signs of CLOB Progress as Aggregators Adopt MAC Swaps
Product standardization will key order books' rise
Survey: Asset Managers Turning to Back Office in Automation Push
To meet various reporting requirements, automation is necessary.
Buy Side Turns to Managed Services to Alleviate Data Management Burden
Rimes' roundtable touches on alternative data management models.
Buy-Side CROs: To Each Investment Strategy, a Unique Tech Response
At last week's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, a trio of chief risk officers (CROs) spanning boutique and institutional investment firms gave a candid take on the build-out of their risk management and reporting platforms. The scene, they said…
Hazlitt: The View of Enterprise Social Media Needs to Evolve
At this year's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit in Manhattan, Simon Hazlitt looked at how his firm has turned to enterprise social media solution tibbr to revolutionize its internal communications, even if the platform, itself, is not about…
BST North America Panel: Will Cloud Kill the IT Department?
As more firms outsource technology solutions via the cloud, one asset manager questions the need for an internal technology department at all.
Hite Hedge AM First on SS&C's Integrated Offering
In an effort to consolidate its vendor footprint, Hite Hedge Asset Management turned to SS&C Technologies and is now live with the fund administrator's newly launched integrated front-, middle- and back-office solution.
BST North America Panel: Different Approaches to Improving Data Management
At the Buy-Side North American Summit, held this week in New York, end-users and vendors on the buy side discussed improvements firms can make to their data management.
BST North America Panel: Derivatives Regulation Creates Tech Limbo, Opportunities
A panel of industry experts discussed the impact regulation of OTC derivative trading will have and what the future holds for the market at 2014's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit.
Definitions, Market Structure Dominate HFT Debate at BST North America
In what was by far the most colorful and contentious panel at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit held today in New York, three electronic market-makers debated what's wrong with the ongoing industry, regulatory, and political discussion around…
Symphony CEO David Gurle Discusses Goldman Sachs/Consortium Deal, New Platform
Yesterday it was announced that a consortium of 14 financial institutions led by Goldman Sachs had acquired Palo Alto-based software vendor Perzo for $66 million. The resulting acquisition led to the new company Symphony Communication Services, whose…
Shellshock Jolts Industry, Could be Worse than Heartbleed
A newly discovered vulnerability for Linux, Mac OS X and Unix-based systems highlights the challenges firms face when defending against hackers and data loss.
Sibos 2014 Keynote: Tech, Services Merge While New Barriers and Competitors Rise
This year's Sibos event, hosted in Boston, kicked off with Chris Perretta and Peter Cowhey articulating the case for a change in mindset.
Investor, Regulatory Demands Drive Latest Linedata Rollout
Yesterday, it was announced that Linedata had enhanced Linedata Global Hedge, its overarching platform for hedge fund managers.
In First Foreign Foray, Eris Licenses Swap Futures IP for Canadian Rates
Swap futures are set to head north of the border as Chicago-based swap futures venue Eris Exchange has agreed to license Eris Methodology, its proprietary product design and intellectual property (IP), to Montréal Exchange, the Canadian derivatives…
With Swap Volumes Slacking, Tech to Serve as SEFs' Differentiator
As the new world of SEF clearing starts to shape, TrueEX's Sunil Hirani says that smaller venues will have differentiate themselves against the larger players by being better at second-order functions.