Articles by Victor Anderson
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017 Winners’ Circle: SimCorp Dimension—Sweeping All Before It
SimCorp’s flagship offering, Dimension, continues to sweep all before it in the IBOR and portfolio accounting categories in the annual BST Awards, winning both categories again comfortably. Victor Anderson speaks to Marc Schröter about the reasons for…
December 2017: Innovation—the Battle for Hearts and Minds
Victor says chief innovation officers are becoming more common in the industry, but they have their work cut out for them.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Back-Office Technology Provider—SmartStream Technologies
It is no secret that the front office has traditionally received the greatest attention from a technology perspective, both from capital markets firms themselves and the community of third-party technology vendor serving them. After all, when it comes to…
SmartStream Corporate Actions Video Series Part III: The Risks Associated with Manual Processing
Victor Anderson and Adam Cottingham discuss the upstream and downstream risks associated with manually-intensive corporate actions processes.
BST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview: SimCorp Coric
SimCorp Coric won the best client reporting and best implementation categories at this year's BST Awards, thanks to its holistic approach to client reporting and communication.
BST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview: SimCorp
SimCorp won the best portfolio accounting and best IBOR (investment book of record) categories at this year’s BST Awards.
BST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview: Ullink
Ullink wins the best low-latency network provider award for the second year running thanks to its Nyfix network.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards luncheon was held at the May Fair Hotel in London on November 3. Here are this year's winners accompanied by explanations of why they won their respective categories.
SmartStream Corporate Actions Video Series Part II: The Challenges Around Messaging Standards
Victor Anderson and Adam Cottingham discuss how the lack of messaging standards for processing corporate actions is affecting firms' abilities to automate current operations.
November 2017: AI: Turning Buy-Side Donkeys Into Thoroughbreds?
Artificial intelligence is no panacea, but it can help with buy-side decision-making, Victor says.
Tradeweb Video Series Part II: The Future of the Global Fixed-Income Marketplace
In the second installment of this two-part series, Lee Olesky discusses Tradeweb's technology and the role the firm's network plays in enabling electronic fixed-income trading.
Tradeweb Video Series Part I: A Look Back at the Past Two Decades
Victor Anderson sits down with Tradeweb's CEO, Lee Olesky, to discuss the highlights and challenges the firm has experienced over the last 20 years.
Awards Update: AFTAs Entry Deadline Extended to October 16
It is still possible to submit entries to this year's American Financial Technology Awards, although time is running out – the website closes on Monday October 16.
SmartStream Corporate Actions Video Series Part I: An Industry Overview
Victor Anderson and Adam Cottingham discuss the business case for developing and implementing technologies to support corporate actions processes.
October 2017: The Consequence of Connections
There's no doubt that technology is a huge driver of the capital markets but Victor says communities and connections may be just as important, if not more so.
WatersTechnology Unveils Inaugural London Fintech Innovation Summit
The WatersTechnology Innovation Summit 2017 is the first European event that focuses exclusively on the fintech industry from a capital markets perspective.
Enter the Robots: Enhancing Reconciliations through Robotic Process Automation
Robotic process automation possesses significant potential to enhance reconciliations operations particularity when married to artificial intelligence.
September 2017: Relax, the Big Cull Is Over
While some jobs could be lost as a result of automation in the capital markets, Victor says they aren't likely to rival the cuts that followed the financial crisis.
Awards Update: AFTAs 2017 Open Sept. 4; BST Awards 2017 Close Sept. 11
The entry deadline to this year's Buy-Side Technology Awards has been extended by a week, while entries to this year's American Financial Technology Awards will open on Monday September 4.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider—Wolverine Execution Services
The algorithmic trading industry is a curious beast: Almost all the press it receives tends to be negative, given that it is only at times when things go awry that the industry sits up and takes notice. One has to look no further than two of the highest…
Waters Rankings: Best Credit Risk Solution Provider—Moody’s Analytics
Back in 2015, Moody’s Analytics caused something of a stir when it replaced Numerix—one of the Rankings’ most consistent winners over the past decade—as the recipient of the credit risk solution provider category. But on closer inspection, that win…
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Provider—IHS Markit
Here we are again at one of WatersTechnology’s awards and apparently nothing has changed: It’s pretty much business as usual as far as IHS Markit is concerned and its domination of the enterprise data management (EDM) provider category in the Waters…
August 2017: Another Example of Our Industry Growing Up
The unbundling of research will present new challenges for the industry, but on balance, it should be good.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Transaction-Cost Analysis (TCA) System Provider—FIS
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA) is not a new business process that needs to be managed by capital markets firms. If anything, it might even be considered to be a bit dreary and frumpy.