Buy-Side Technology/News
SS&C Technologies Joins IPC's Extranet
SS&C, which produces FIXLink, MarketCenter, and the MarketTrader OEMS among other applications, will use the extranet to transact, receive, and distribute information through an open ecosystem.
Vermilion Moves Boston Office
Vermilion Software has relocated its presence in Boston, Mass. to a larger office, in recognition of its growing client base in the region.
Swan Wealth Advisors Takes Omex for Order Routing
The buy-side risk management specialist, with $850 million assets under management and based in Durango, Colorado, will use Omex's execution platform for implementing options strategies across its multiple custodians and sub-accounts.
eVestment Unveils New Attribution Platform
Analytics provider eVestment has launched a new attribution platform, eVestment Attribution, which will provide asset managers with insight into how portfolio returns are generated.
Bloomberg Integrates LCH.Clearnet's Swaps Margin Calculator
Bloomberg's Professional Service can now directly access LCH's SwapClear Margin Approximation Risk Tool (SMART) to determine capital funding requirements for swaps.
Fidessa Debuts Post-Trade FIX Confirmation Hub
Fidessa has announced the opening of its Post-Trade Confirmation Hub, designed to allow allocations and confirmations of trades directly between sell-side and buy-side counterparties via FIX.
Aite Says Compliance Tech Spend to Increase 35 percent in Three Years
A report from Boston-based consultancy Aite Group indicates that compliance technology spending is likely to grow by 35 percent from 2012 to 2015, with hosted solutions persisting as the preferred deployment option.
SunGard Upgrades Asset Arena InvestOne for ‘Multiple Books of Record’
SunGard has released the latest version of its Asset Arena InvestOne accounting platform and it now has functionality for Multiple Books of Record, as well as the launch of a new operational management and monitoring solution.
Scivantage, Broadridge Partnership Delivers Recon to Maxit
Scivantage has tapped Broadridge Financial Solutions' consolidated business process outsourcing solution to support reconciliation activities for certain procedures for its cost-basis reporting platform, Maxit.
ITG Brings Posit Alert to Mexico
Agency brokerage ITG has launched Posit Alert─its platform for sourcing large block orders of liquidity─for Mexican equities.
G2 Fintech Adds to Advisory Board, Staff Ahead of Cloud Push
Scott Devinsky, CFO at First Oak Capital Management, joins the tax analysis and compliance provider's board. Peter Kohli and Megan Bilkie meanwhile sign on to help guide the vendor's client services and sales teams.
Linedata Service Tackles Hedge Fund Compliance
Linedata, the Paris-based solutions provider, has unveiled Linedata Compliance Managed Service to address the complexity of global hedge fund regulations by incorporating rule monitoring across different geographies and jurisdictions.
Bailard Switches to Indata's iPM Cloud
Asset management firm Bailard, which is headquartered on the outskirts of San Francisco, is now live on Indata's iPM Cloud platform, the vendor's hosted environment.
Private Equity Data Alliance AltExchange Grows Membership
The consortium of general (GPs), limited partners (LPs), industry groups, as well as technology provider eFront, which officially launched in May, has seen significant interest across private equity, but especially from larger GPs.
Torstone Adds OTC Derivatives Reporting Module to Inferno
Torstone Technology, a London-based provider of derivatives processing software, has released a new Inferno module that consolidates over-the-counter (OTC) derivative trades from multiple front office systems and feeds them into global trade repositories…
Thomson Reuters and CQG Partner on Futures Order Routing
Thomson Reuters has expanded access to liquidity across its order routing network by adding additional connections to US futures markets through an agreement with CQG’s direct market access (DMA) platform.
SimCorp, AcadiaSoft Partner on Margin Calls
The investment management solutions provider will use AcadiaSoft's MarginSphere instant messaging service, which provides automation of dispute-based processing for collateral issues and exceptions.
iLevel Unveils 6.0 of its Flagship Solution
iLevel Solutions has released version 6 of its cloud-based platform, which allows alternative asset managers to automate the functions of data collection, analysis and reporting.
Traiana CreditLink for Swaps Trade Certainty Picking Up
Traiana’s pre-trade clearing certainty initiative, delivered by Traiana CreditLink service, has received the support of leading futures commissions merchants and trading venues to manage swap clearing limits in compliance with the requirements of Dodd…
Latin Clear Panama to Use Clearstream’s Post-Trade Solution Vestima
Panama-based Latin Clear has signed to join Clearstream’s investment funds platform Vestima in order to bring operational efficiency and security benefits to the Latin American financial markets.
ITG Updates Implementation Shortfall Algorithm
ITG has enhanced its Dynamic Implementation Shortfall algorithm with optimized capabilities to handle imbalanced and illiquid portfolio trades.
Woodfield Fund Administration Taps Smonik for Reconciliations
Illinois-based Woodfield Fund Administration has chosen back-office solutions provider Smonik Investment Systems' Recon solution to manage its portfolio reconciliations processes.
FATCA Deadline Pushed Back, Buy Side Gets a Reprieve
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a notice today saying that certain deadlines pertaining to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) have been delayed by six months, as rules around withholding and due diligence will move from January 1…