Articles by Jake Thomases
Brazil's CGD Securities Taps Valdi for Market Access
CGD Securities, a Brazilian division of Portugese bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos, has selected SunGard’s hosted Valdi solution for access to the BM&FBovespa financial markets.
Thomson Reuters Debuts Compliance Tool for Employee Supervision
Thomson Reuters has launched Accelus Conflicts Compliance, a web-based solution for streamlining employee supervision and code-of-conduct management, in partnership compliance specialist TerraNua.
Goldman Asset Management Aids Treasury Departments with Risk Tool
For those seeking greater transparency in money-market funds’ underlying holdings and associated risks, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has launched Transparency Insight, a risk management tool for liquidity portfolios.
Edgbaston Adopts InData Portfolio Management Platform
London-based Edgbaston Investment Partners has gone live with the iPM Intelligent Portfolio Management platform from Connecticut-based InData.
Fortress CTO: Steps to True Enterprise Data Management
Five years ago, New York-based Fortress Investment Group had a tightly coupled enterprise data architecture. Each vendor system had its own data model with no overall integration strategy, necessitating translation and therefore error. A lack of straight…
Blowback from the Rush to BYOD
UBS Global Asset Management has nearly gone through a full bring-your-own-device (BYOD) lifecycle already. It introduced the program almost by accident, after what was supposed to be a limited pilot with a couple of interns. Word spread, employees…
Lazard CRO: Risk System Useless Unless You Can Absorb the Data
During a panel at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, Misys senior risk advisor Bradley Ziff called for a "vast increase" in the types of risk analytics that buy-side firms make available to themselves, pointing to the increased capital in buy…
TowerGroup's Shahrawat: Risk Analytics Slowly Coming to the Fore on the Buy Side
A survey by CEB TowerGroup shows that while 58 percent of buy-side firms consider risk analytics a business-critical element of technology infrastructure, only 17 percent consider it an edge. Senior research director Dushyant Shahrawat, who gave a…
In 2014, CTOs to Balance Expectations, Budgets and Security; Answer BYOD Demand
To close out the CTO panel at the Buy-Side Technology North America Summit, the CTOs were asked to give predictions for 2014. Here’s how they answered.
Vendor Relationships are Changing, Say CTOs
The pace of technology change has increased such that Fidelity Investments is reconsidering the length of its enterprise license agreements (ELAs) with vendors, CTO Mihir Shah revealed during a conversation about vendor relationships at the Buy-Side…
BST North American Summit 2013: Capital Markets Tech Isn't Cool Anymore
“When I started my career, being in the financial services industry was the place to be. What happened?” With those words, Lord Abbett's head of IT operations, Nathan Boylan, summed up a rather raw opening segment to the mobility panel at the Buy-Side…
BST North American Summit 2013 CTO Panel: Tell the Business What You're Building, But Don't Let Them Buy the Drills
How many of you have cluttered garages, Jeff Hurley, CTO at the $188 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, asked the audience at the recent New York-hosted Buy-Side Technology North American Summit.
Evanston Capital Management Jumps Into Gravitas Cloud
Evanston Capital Management (ECM), an Illinois-based fund of funds, has migrated its core servers and applications to the Gravitas Private Cloud, a project completed in less than six months.
BST North American Summit 2013: Catching Up with Fortress Investment Group's Hylton Socher
Jake Thomases speaks with Hylton Socher, CTO at Fortress Investment Group, who gave the keynote address at Buy-Side Technology's 2013 North American Summit.
Lots of Coverage to Come From BST Conference
While Anthony Malakian is off in Ireland, Jake Thomases gives the lowdown on yesterday's BST North America event.
Central Clearing Blurs the Line Between Front and Back Office
The biggest impact that the new centrally-cleared derivatives regime is having on buy-side infrastructure is an organizational one, said Michael O’Brien, director of global trading at Eaton Vance, at the Buy-Side Technology North America Summit.
Tabb's Rowady: System Fragmentation Preventing Data Fluency
The number of factors shaping the future of capital markets technology is overwhelming, according to Tabb analyst Paul Rowady’s remarks at the SAP Financial Services Forum North America.
LSE to Institute First Wireless Connection to Datacenter
London Stock Exchange (LSE) will debut in November a millimeter wave (MMW) link between its City of London datacenter and the Equinix datacenter in Slough, cutting latency by a third compared to some fiber links.
Perseus Offers Timing Service at CME Datacenter
Perseus Telecom and CME Group have announced a new service offering, High Precision Time, that enables customers to synchronize their time systems across datacenters where Perseus offers this service. It is available at CME Group’s datacenter in Aurora,…
Nasdaq Debuts iPad App for Document Management
Nasdaq OMX has launched a WorkSpace application, enabling business and document management process, for iPad.
SS&C Buys Prime Management for ILS Exposure
SS&C Technologies, a Connecticut-based software provider, has acquired Prime Management, a fund administrator and a service provider to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market.
DelphX Delves into Credit Trading via SunGard Connectivity
Calling the SunGard Global Network (SGN) "the gorilla of equity order routing," bond trading venue operator DelphX announced that it will utilize SGN's FIX connectivity as the plumbing for its new CentralX alternative trading system (ATS).
Bloomberg and BGC Launch SEFs
Bloomberg and BGC Partners have officially launched their swap execution facilities (SEFs).
Edwin Marcial: No More Mr. ICE Guy
Edwin Marcial has been in the technology driver’s seat since before ICE’s meteoric rise. In the early 2000s, he wore the ‘upstart’ label like a badge of honor. But with the purchase of the NYSE, he doesn’t seem so comfortable with it anymore. By Jake…