Outsourcing and offshoring

Getting your data (ware)house in order

Up-to-date, accurate and verified benchmark data is becoming more and more important to asset managers. With tightened budgets and cost efficiencies to consider, outsourcing data provision and management can work to asset managers’ advantage. By Stephen…

SunGard Merges Business, IT Consulting Units

NEW YORK-Trading software provider SunGard will combine its business and IT consulting groups into a new entity, SunGard Global Services (SGGS), in an effort that has been in the works since early in 2009, vendor officials announced today, April 5.

Offshoring: The New Business Case

The reference data market is no longer all about cost-cutting, but firms are always looking at cost-efficiency, and many are under continuous pressure to migrate staff to offshore locations. The maturing offshoring market means firms now have greater…

Savvis to Host Bats MTF

LONDON-Europe's most recently announced multilateral trading facility (MTF), Bats Trading (Europe), announced that is has inked a deal with datacenter provider Savvis to host the MTF's production systems in Savvis' Docklands datacenter, DWT has learned.