Buy-Side Technology/News
Administrator takes SuperDerivatives for derivatives pricing
Columbus Avenue Consulting, a New York-based hedge fund administrator with $6.5 billion under administration, has deployed SuperDerivatives' SD-CD credit derivatives pricing and analytics application for more efficient valuations of its clients'…
Gissing taps into the buy side with Malbec
Gissing Software, the Kent, UK-based specialist in the routing and transformation of real-time market and trade data, has won its first buy-side client as part of a new strategy to go beyond its traditional sell-side client base.
CRD announces EMS, enhances architecture and derivatives support
Charles River's IMS is something of a household name on the buy side, combining order management, compliance, and various analytics functions within a single, front-office platform. Now, the Burlington-MA-based vendor is preparing to enter the EMS market…
S&P rolls out CreditStats Direct
Standard & Poor's last month launched CreditStats Direct, a new web-based analytics service that provides data and tools to view the adjustments underlying S&P's ratings of debt issued by North American and European corporates and utilities.
Credit where it's due By Stewart Eisenhart
I'm a little late to the annual game of 'Top 10 (or five) trends for the year ahead', but there's no time like the present. Now that broad indicators of how 2008 will shape up for the financial services industry and for global economies in general have…
Prudential live on SunGard InvestOne in SA
Prudential Portfolio Managers, one of South Africa's largest asset management firms with ZAR71 billion ($10.6 billion) under man-agement, has completed an in-house installation of SunGard's InvestOne Enterprise and Xamin products for portfolio accounting…
Month in Numbers
'In an ideal world you want everything on a single platform; you want your order generation, your order management, your compliance checking, and probably your settlement functions supported by the same platform'
Seascape takes ClariFI's modelling and research platform
Seascape Capital Management, a New Hampshire-based investment manager running separately managed accounts, a mutual fund and a hedge fund, has deployed ModelStation, a quantitative portfolio modelling, research and attribution platform developed by…