Buy-Side Technology/News
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,…
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…
Cadis creates 'Centre for Excellence'
Cadis, the London-based buy-side data-management specialist, has launched a 'Centre for Excellence' designed to help clients to self-install Cadis implementations.
Advent unveils update to Axys
Advent Software has released Axys 3.8, an updated version of the San Francisco-based buy-side vendor's portfolio accounting and reporting platform. Axys 3.8 includes updates to support the 2010 Options Symbology Initiative (OSI), an industry-wide…
Sybase acquires Aleri to strengthen CEP capabilities
Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile soft ware, has finalised an asset purchase agreement with Aleri, a provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology and CEP-based solutions. CEP plays an integral part in real-time…
Month in Numbers
"There will always be hedge fund managers and others who will try to ride a wave of optimism to fortune with other people's money. That mindset will return; the question is whether lenders, creditors and regulators will allow it"
Quantifi releases Version 9.3
London-based Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management products to the global credit markets, has released Version 9.3 of its pricing, hedging and risk analysis platform. Quantifi says V9.3 provides more robust risk reporting, streamlined…
SunGard unveils VPM version 9.0
SunGard has released a new version of its VPM portfolio accounting platform for hedge funds. According to SunGard, VPM version 9.0 provides funds with an enterprise-level portfolio accounting application built on a service-oriented architecture for plug…