Buy-Side Technology/News
Aviva Investors connects to Calastone
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business and wholly owned subsidiary of Aviva plc, has signed an agreement to make its UK-domiciled retail funds available via the global Calastone transaction network. Aviva Investors' third-party…
Daiwa looks to Syncova OPTIMA/Broker for margining support
Daiwa Securities Europe, the European arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities, has deployed Syncova's OPTIMA/Broker platform, with a global licence, to support its expanding synthetic prime brokerage business line. OPTIMA/Broker is a prime…
Evercore takes Advent's APX and Moxy applications
Evercore Pan-Asset Capital Management will imple ment Advent's Moxy OMS and the vendor's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), an integrated portfolio and client-relationship management platform. According to Advent, Evercore had previously relied on…
Holland Park selects Algo Risk Service
Holland Park Risk Management (HPRM), a Toronto-based independent risk management adviser to pension fund managers in the US and Canada, has signed a three-year contract for the Algo Risk Service, Algorithmics' outsourced risk management and portfolio…
Reduced latency for SunGard's GL Net global order-routing service
SunGard has deployed new ultra-low latency market data distribution (MDD) servers for GL Net, its market-data and order-routing network. GL Net customers are now able to access highly scalable and enriched market-data flows delivered at a microsecond…
Stralem live on Advent's APX platform
Stralem & Company, a New York-based investment manager with $2.2 billion under management, has implemented the performance analytics capabilities of Advent Software's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) platform to better compare its portfolios internally…
SunGard's Ambit receives Swift interface qualification
SunGard's Ambit Messaging Hub has passed the Swift interface qualification for FIN interfaces. The Ambit Messaging Hub, which provides a single platform on which customers can consolidate all financial messaging activity (regardless of format) has been…
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