Articles by Anthony Malakian
SS&C GlobeOp Rolls Out Voice-Recognition App, More 'Hands Free' Solutions Coming
SS&C GlobeOp has embedded a voice-recognition assistant in its iPhone and iPad apps geared toward fund administrator clients.
SunGard's XSP Expands to Singapore
SunGard announced that its XSP platform for corporate actions now has a sales and support office in Singapore. This comes on the heels of SunGard's December 2012 acquisition of XSP.
Aleynikov's Ripple Effect
This week Michael Lewis brought a national spotlight to the Goldman Sachs case against Sergey Aleynikov. Will this change the way programmers conduct business in the future?
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.
JOBS Act Implications Significant, Just Not for Technology
The JOBS Act could present new opportunities─and challenges─for the hedge fund industry, but Anthony questions whether there's a significant IT angle to be found.
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.
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.
Anthony Malakian: No Reconciling Dependency on Excel
According to some reports, 70 to 80 percent of reconciliations at major financial institutions still take place through the use of manually intensive, spreadsheet-based platforms. Anthony says that in today’s environment, this is simply unacceptable.
Waters Rankings 2103: Best Sell-Side Clearing Provider — Goldman Sachs
In 2012, Goldman Sachs finished second to JPMorgan in this category, less than one percentage point away from dethroning the five-time champ. This year, Goldman has gone one better, narrowly edging out JPMorgan in a category that was again keenly…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Agency Brokerage — ITG
In times of constrained liquidity and fragmentation—and the risk and cost that comes with those conditions—firms are pushing harder than ever for cutting-edge algorithms and top-tier crossing capabilities. It’s this combination that has lead Waters’…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Exceptions and Reconciliation Management Provider — Omgeo
Establishing something of a dynasty, for the fourth straight year, Omgeo has been named the best exceptions and reconciliation management provider by Waters’ readers. As firms look to automate their reconciliation processes in order to better mitigate…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Credit Risk Solution Provider — Numerix
For the second straight year, Waters’ readers have named Numerix and its CrossAsset platform as the best solution for managing credit risk. The most significant upgrade made to the Numerix offering was the June launch of a new scripting language for…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Risk Analytics Provider — Numerix
It won’t come as too much of a surprise that Waters’ readers who chose Numerix as the top credit risk solution provider, also named the New York-based firm as the best risk analytics provider. This is the second year in a row that Numerix has done the…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Full-Service Brokerage — JPMorgan
Traditionally, this is a category that has been dominated by Goldman Sachs, but the last two years have seen two different winners, with JPMorgan being named as the best full-service broker for 2013. Perhaps this shift is a sign of the challenging market…
AQR's Path to Reconciliation
In order to improve its reconciliations capabilities, AQR Capital decided it needed to replace its legacy reconciliation system, which relied largely on manual processes. The Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund turned to Electra Information Systems for…
AIFMD's Slow Burn
As one AIFMD-related deadline hits, the industry is still likely a year away from tackling compliance and reporting for this regulatory overhaul. But that doesn't mean firms shouldn't start preparing today.
AIFMD Approaches
Starting Monday, AIFMD has to be written into national law throughout Europe. In this new statute, Anthony says firms can learn something from their neighbors across the pond, who had to begin filing for Form PF last year.
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.
REDI Now Independent of Goldman
Goldman Sachs has sold REDI, with its REDIPlus execution management system (EMS), to a consortium of investors, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citadel and Lightyear Capital. Even with the sale, Goldman will still…
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.