Buy-Side Technology/News
Commercial Union signs with Linedata for Poland fund compliance
Commercial Union Mutual Funds Company in Poland with approximately $1.9 billion under management has signed with Linedata Systems for the vendor's Linedata Compliance application.
Advent expands Geneva hosting partnership with Paladyne
Advent Software and Paladyne systems have expanded their partnership under which Paladyne hosts Advent's Geneva investment accounting platform.
USAble Life selects iWorks
USAble Life has selected SunGard's iWorks to help it build, deploy, administer and sell group insurance and worksite products as well as provide a web-enabled business environment to its clients and partners.
New ClariFI release targets 'quantimental' managers
New York based ClariFI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard & Poor's and part of S&P's Capital IQ business, has unveiled the latest version of its flagship offering, ModelStation v4.0. The most significant enhancement in 4.0 is the inclusion of Event…
Gartmore connects to Calastone for funds distribution
London-based fund manager Gartmore Investment Management has signed an agreement to offer its funds via Calastone's distribution channels.
Chi-X Europe to offer CCP interoperability
Chi-X Europe, operator of the largest pan-European equity multilateral trading facility (MTF), intends to introduce what it calls a 'user choice' clearing model following the memorandum of understanding signed by European Multilateral Clearing Facility…
Instinet Europe trading on SmartPool
Instinet, a provider of electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, has announced that its European agency brokerage subsidiary, Instinet Europe, has completed conformance testing on SmartPool, a new non-displayed MTF for block trading…
Standard Chartered implements FX Market Aggregation Accelerator
Standard Chartered Bank is live with the Progress Apama FX Market Aggregation Accelerator in a distributed deployment spanning FX desks in three continents.
Quant manager takes CEP route with StreamBase
PhaseCapital, a Boston-based quantitative investment manager, has implemented StreamBase's complex event processing (CEP) technology to develop a proprietary high-frequency trading and execution platform.
TKS enhances Penny platform
TKS Solutions, a provider of partnership and shareholder accounting products for the financial industry, has enhanced its flagship offering, Penny - It Works.
Seasons Capital enhances risk capabilities
San Francisco-based long/short equity investment manager Seasons Capital Management has selected Imagine Software's Derivatives.com service to support its risk management needs.
AQR signs with Scalent for virtualised infrastructure
AQR Capital Management, a Connecticut-based investment and hedge fund manager, has undertaken an upgrade of its data centre infrastructure using Scalent Systems' Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) software.
Tradar publishes ‘multi-prime' white paper
Tradar, the London-based provider of software and services to the hedge fund industry, has published a white paper aimed at guiding fund managers through the operational and technological challenges associated with using multiple prime brokers.
Kx and First Derivatives sign OEM agreement
Kx Systems, a provider of database and time-series analysis technology, has signed an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) agreement with First Derivatives (FDP), a provider of products and services to the capital market technology sector.
Valuations remain top priority for the buy side
Financial research firm Standard & Poor's (S&P) has unveiled a new service to help investors accurately value structured assets and complex securities.