Articles by Timothy Bourgaize Murray
Nomura AM Expands Charles River Implementation
The asset management arm of the Japanese banking giant, with 33 trillion yen ($323.5 billion) under management, has successfully migrated its equity business onto Charles River's IMS, with domestic and international fixed income, foreign exchange, and…
Tera Group Launches Bitcoin Swap
The swap execution facility (SEF) says it will now offer a new bilateral contract for hedging the price of the virtual currency.
Scoban Private Bank to Launch with Lombard Risk Reporting
The Edinburgh-based private bank, set to begin taking clients this summer under management including Ray Entwhistle and other former Adams & Co. executives, has selected Lombard Risk's Reporter.
Thomson Reuters, Cambridge Associates Aggregate Private Fund Benchmarks
The financial information provider and global investment firm have collaborated on a jointly-developed online platform to provide benchmark pricing on a range of alternative funds.
CBOE to Invest in Tradelegs
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) says it will stake the analytics and decision-support software provider to institutional investors.
Long on Bitcoin: Perseus and Atlas ATS Burnish Digital Currency, Target Market-Makers
Despite recent headline-splashing travails, Bitcoin is steadily gaining reception among the world's largest market-makers and funds like Fort Hill Capital. Atlas, an alternative trading system, and network services provider Perseus are meeting that…
Market Stucture Consultancy KOR Group Launches
The advocacy and consulting firm, led by Christopher Nagy and David Lauer, will cover the intersection of market structure, policy, and financial technology, and will push an agenda of greater transparency in the industry.
Electra Taps Rhodes as COO
A software solutions provider for asset managers, Electra Information Systems has appointed Scott Rhodes as chief operations officer, to be based in New York.
BT Launches New Integrated Voice Service
The telecommunications provider has launched One Voice Radianz, an integrated service that will bring together voice, mobile, and data services for financial services users of its flagship BT Radianz Cloud.
Mexico's Intangible Investments Live on iLevel
The Mexico City-based venture capital firm will be the first in the country using iLevel's Private Capital Data platform, and third in Latin America after Colombia's Tribeca Asset Management and Brazil's Patria Investimentos.
Dubai Murabaha Commodities Platform Adds BGC
The interdealer broker will be the first on Dubai Multi Commodities Center's (DMCC's) electronic Tradeflow system, launched in 2013, for trading in niche Islamic finance products.
Access to Equity Syndication, Hedge Fund Allocation Drives Two-Sided Growth at US Capital Advisors
Boutique broker-dealers often grow out of teams leaving larger wirehouses, just as David King's did at UBS on the way to co-founding Houston-based US Capital Advisors (USCA). But like proprietary trading desks spinning off, these firms often discover new…
KKR's Colorful Personality: CIO Ed Brandman
Ed Brandman’s friendly quirks don’t conjure the conventional image of an IT chief, especially at KKR, one of the more white-shoe firms in a space famous for them. But don’t let the CIO’s charms fool you. He effectively redefined enterprise-grade…
Eris Exchange Achieves Open Interest Milestone: What's Next?
The venue's chief operating officer, Michael Riddle, discusses why more of the same is in store. After all, why fix what isn't broken?
Moody's Analytics Adds Structured Finance Portal
The new web-based platform will provide enhanced content to a range of portfolio managers, underwriters, and risk professionals, with an initial focus on collateralized loan obligations (CLOs).
Ex-Cantor Team Launches Lucera, Targets High-Frequency FX
The low-latency infrastructure provider has set out to offer the industry a flexible cost scheme that is particularly applicable to trading in fragmented markets like foreign exchange (FX).
For Eaton Vance, SEF Aggregation Demonstrates 'Art of the Possible'
Ahead of the functional made-available-to-trade (MAT) deadline for certain fixed-to-floating interest-rate swaps, Boston-based asset manager Eaton Vance sought to combine familiarity of trading protocol with control over information leakage. The result…
Saxo Bank Adds Futures Spread Trading for Mobile
The e-trading specialist says clients can now trade futures spreads across its platforms, including SaxoTrader smartphone and tablet apps, covering intra-market spreads as well as named calendar spreads on a range of gold, oil and commodities, rates,…
Eris Exchange Adds UBS for Swap Futures Execution, Clearing
Via its UBS Securities arm, the Swiss bank has completed its first trade on the venue, on behalf of asset manager Eaton Vance.
Bloomberg SEF Completes First Sponsored Access Swap Trade
The trade by NISA Investment Advisors, supported by Credit Suisse's futures commission merchant (FCM) arm and Goldman Sachs, comes ahead of next week's deadline for the buy-side to begin mandatory execution on SEFs.
Black Mountain Systems Taps Eze Private Cloud
An investment management software provider, Black Mountain has moved its Everest platform to Eze Castle Integration's private cloud.
Data Interoperability Needed For Hedgers After EMIR Deadline
Properly creating unique trade identifier (UTI) data is only half the challenge for buy-side firms as the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) reporting mandate takes hold today. The other half? Making sure counterparties are doing the same…
SunGard Extends Asset Arena with Data Connect
The new cloud-based solution will provide enhanced order processing and control for hedge fund managers, private equity firms, and fund administrators.
China's ICBC Taps Helix For Repo, MBS Processing
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's largest by total assets and market capitalization, will implement HelixRepo for its fixed income financing business and HelixMBS to automate allocation of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) pools…