Analysis
Waters Panel: Big Data Analytics to Get Bigger, Smaller
With Big Data analysis and business intelligence tools becoming more functional and sophisticated, firms can now extract more valuable data from a broader range of data sources in a fraction of the time that it would have taken in the past. As a result,…
US Exchanges, SEC Mull Anti-Data Glitch Proposals
In the past month, stock and option exchanges have agreed and submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission recommendations to strengthen the performance of the US capital markets infrastructure, following several well-publicized data failures…
IBOR Breakfast Briefing: Good Governance Essential for Success
Panelists at a breakfast briefing that covered the investment book of record (IBOR), hosted by Waters, debated the key aspects of the technology itself, saying that any IBOR system requires a layer of data governance in order to be successful.
IBOR Breakfast Briefing: People and Patronage Part of the Puzzle
Panelists at Waters' recent breakfast briefing on the investment book of record (IBOR), discussed practical methods of implementing an IBOR system at a buy-side firm, saying that while technology is important, the key to a successful project is often the…
Fidelity Adds Conditional Orders to Service Bureau
A catchy name can go a long way toward making a product popular. Fidelity’s bland-branded Service Bureau must be doing it some other way.
IBOR Breakfast Briefing: Buy versus Build Debate Rages On
Panelists at a breakfast briefing on the investment book of record (IBOR), hosted by Waters, typified the continuing debate over how an IBOR system should be delivered at investment firms, with some praising the vendor route, and others claiming that the…
The Perils of Data Outsourcing
Dublin-based consultant Michael McMorrow finds lessons for the financial industry in a consumer purchase data security scandal close to home
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2013—Eagle Investment Systems
By winning the most prestigious category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the second of two awards announced at the awards luncheon on November 1, Eagle Investment Systems created a little bit of history by becoming the first company to do so…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Winners' Circle—Eagle Investment Systems
With its second win in the best overall buy-side technology provider category, Eagle Investment Systems has proved once again that it is at the top of its game. John Lehner, Eagle’s president and CEO, talks to Waters about cloud on the buy side, what he…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Buy-Side Product for 2013—LCH.Clearnet
The penultimate category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the best buy-side product of the year, was the first of only two awards announced on the day of the BST Awards luncheon on November 1 in London. Each of the 26 individual category winners…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best TCA Provider to the Buy Side—ITG
This is only the second year of this category’s existence, but you wouldn’t guess it from checking all the transaction-cost analysis (TCA) products on offer in the market. It means any provider needs to go that much farther to stand out, especially since…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—Datawatch Corporation
Big data is rapidly emerging as one of the more contentious terms in modern buy-side technology. Some people argue that it’s absolutely a new phenomenon; others contend that it’s always been there, and it’s just the relativistic levels of data compared…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative—LCH.Clearnet
The award bonanza for LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear Margin Approximation Risk Tool (Smart) continues thanks to a savvy partnership with the Bloomberg Professional Service, which has exposed it to potentially over 300,000 pairs of eyes. Bloomberg in August…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—Microsoft
When you think of the term “cloud technology,” Microsoft is top-of-mind even for decidedly non-technologists. The buy side has only relatively recently come around to the idea of using cloud-based technologies to cut costs and save resources, even though…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform—SmartStream Technologies
This is the fourth year that the best reconciliation platform or service category has been included in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, and for the fourth straight year, SmartStream has taken home the award. The London-based vendor’s success can be…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best CEP Product—OneMarketData
OneMarketData returns to the winners’ circle this year in the complex-event processing (CEP) category, thanks to its OneTick offering, by making a case for its mastery over the continuously ballooning volume of data flooding investment firms, both…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side CRM Product—Digiterre
Digiterre couldn’t hold onto the customer relationship management (CRM) award after snagging it for the first time in 2010, but nor could Satuit or Advent, which won in 2011 and 2012, respectively. In the interim, Digiterre has added a series of modules…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—Vermilion Software
Only one category in the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards—the best implementation at a buy-side firm—specifically considers the practical implications of a third-party provider’s technology from an end-user’s perspective. This category, therefore, is…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The job of fund administration has become increasingly onerous as hedge funds are relying more and more on their administrators for regulatory compliance support. Form PF created a new reporting paradigm on the buy side, which has since expanded with…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—DealVector
Like penicillin, DealVector was born by random chance. Michael Manning went to Princeton and became a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, while David Jefferds went there and became a dealer in structured credit. Decades later, the two found themselves on the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue—Liquidnet
Few names are more synonymous with buy-side block trading than Liquidnet. With an average execution size of 42,000 shares per transaction, and a combined $12 trillion in assets under management among its members, the 12-year-old network certainly has…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Compliance Product—Linedata
As mentioned at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards luncheon on November 1, if any category could be described as ushering in a changing of the guard, it would be this one. After all, Fidessa has dominated this category every year since the inaugural…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Client-Reporting Platform—Equipos
Research firm Investit reports that three-quarters of all asset managers will put a focus on client reporting and information delivery this year. That effort brings with it a host of data management challenges, which Equipos, whose Coric Client…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—SimCorp
SimCorp marks its first win in the portfolio accounting platform category this year, an area that has traditionally been dominated by industry stalwarts, Advent and Multifonds. This year in particular marks a validation for Dimension, SimCorp’s flagship…