Articles by Jake Thomases
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Reference Data Provider — Thomson Reuters
For three years in a row, Waters’ readers have chosen Thomson Reuters’ reference data over Bloomberg, the Rankings’ previous winner. An originator, consolidator and redistributor of security and financial instrument data, Thomson Reuters provides access…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Corporate Actions Solution Provider — Thomson Reuters
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s (DTCC’s) corporate actions solution has won this category for the past three years, including last year after it had been bought by Markit. But for this year, the torch has been passed to Thomson Reuters with its…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Low-Latency Data Feed Provider — Thomson Reuters
Make it five wins in a row for Thomson Reuters and Elektron Real Time in the best low-latency data feed provider category, and the third consecutive year that the data giant has captured both this and the best reference data provider awards.
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Data Analytics Provider — S&P Capital IQ
Created in 2010 from the merger of the research, analytic and strategic capabilities of Standard & Poor’s and Capital IQ, S&P Capital IQ has established itself to such an extent in its relatively short life that this year it becomes the first ever…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Accounting System Provider — Multifonds
Luxembourg has developed a banking industry whose scope goes well beyond its modest population of little more than half a million people. Its success can be traced in part to cross-border fund administration serving many European markets, a sector for…
Technologically In-Klined: Seer Capital CIO Jack Kline
Seer Capital, founded only a few years ago in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, today invests in a broad array of securitized credit. That’s possible because of the flexible architecture implemented by CIO Jack Kline, who knows that traders can’t be…
DTCC Announces Settlement and Collateral Initiatives
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is making an effort to publicize its primary initiatives surrounding collateral management and settlement, in an effort to help the industry lay out budgets for the coming year.
McDonnell Takes Over Sales for TT
Trading Technologies (TT), a Chicago-based provider of trading software, has appointed Robbie McDonnell EVP global sales.
BATS President O'Brien Abruptly Leaves
BATS Global Markets (BATS) today announced the departure of William O'Brien as president, effective immediately, with CEO Joe Ratterman reassuming the additional role of president.
Nomura Asset Management Selects NRI T-STAR for Back Office
Nomura Asset Management, Japan's largest asset management firm, has adopted Nomura Research Institute's (NRI) T-STAR back office suite, including the RX, GX and ReportAssist tools.
ITRS Names Warren CEO
Guy Warren has been named CEO of ITRS Group, a provider of performance monitoring and management technology. He replaces Kevin Covington, who will remain as a senior adviser to ITRS.
Pierpont Selects SunGard's Loanet for Securities Finance
Pierpont Securities, a specialized fixed income shop, has selected SunGard’s Loanet to help manage its securities finance operations, including trading, inventory management, accounting and settlement.
CAT Bid List Shrinks to Six
The national securities exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) have selected six bids from the list of ten request-for-proposal (RFP) responses that were submitted to build and maintain the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT).
In Six Months, Ransomware Fear Has Grown
Successful cyber attacks on financial institutions have traditionally resulted in a theft of data, disruption of trading activity or websites - as in a DDOS attack - or a manipulation of internal company operations as a means of hurting the business.
Macquarie Futures to Use CTC Reconciliation
Macquarie Futures has opted to use Gresham Computing’s Clareti Transaction Control solution (CTC) in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, to deliver automated reconciliation and exception management services to clients that use its brokerage services in…
Philippine Stock Exchange Adopts Nasdaq Tech
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) will adopt X-stream Trading technology from Nasdaq OMX for trading equities and ETFs. It is expected to go live in mid-2015.
Innovation Suffering in Back Office Tech, Says Panel
Innovation in financial service technology is dead. So said Joseph Lodato, chief compliance officer at Guggenheim Securities, at a TSAM panel discussion last week.
Tech as Glue for, Not Replacement of, Business Processes
When it comes to automating back-office business processes for the benefit of the operations team, Diana Merenda, MD of consultant Client Lifecycle Solutions, said on a panel at the TSAM conference that technology is merely the glue that holds together…
Broadridge and Doxim Partner on CRM
Lake Success, New York-based Broadridge Financial Solutions and Ontario-based Doxim have partnered to deliver the Smart Statement solution to help clients make the move from their current statement design to enhanced, Client Relationship Management 2…
The Cyber Security Lost Cause
There are a number of partial defenses against cyber-attacks, including software and organizational training and preparation, and it is imperative that any business, especially financial services firms, adopt them to avoid becoming an easy target. But as…
Ullink Buys Two Brands from NYSE Technologies
Ullink, a Paris-based provider of trading solutions and connectivity, has entered into an agreement to acquire trading technology NYFix and market access provider Metabit from NYSE Technologies. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval,…
The Who and How of Cyber Criminals
Hackers have grown up in the last decade. They've got more resources, more ways to get into your network, and more things to take once they get in.
CMB International Chooses Serisys for Post-Trade
Hong Kong investment company CMB International has selected the post-trade processing platform from Serisys Solutions, Adypt, for its capital markets businesses. CMBI will begin its roll out of Adypt in the portfolio management area.
Sinisgalli Not Rebuilding at Eze
On two previous occasions, Pete Sinisgalli has been brought in by a company's board to be CEO. In another instance he was brought in as a COO. All three times, the company in question was struggling or headed in a downward direction and needed a new…