Articles by Victor Anderson
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Performance Measurement System Provider—FactSet
FactSet? Really? Winner of the best performance measurement system provider category at this year’s Waters Rankings? Surely not?
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Market Risk Solution Provider—RiskVal Financial Solutions
In last year’s Waters Rankings, RiskVal Financial Solutions caused something of an upset by becoming the first recipient of this award other than FinAnalytica (acquired by BISAM in March 2016) or SunGard (now FIS) in the last six years.
McGovern to Lead BBH’s Recently Unveiled Fintech Business
Brown Brothers Harriman has appointed Michael McGovern as head of the firm’s Investor Services business unit, comprising middle-office services, Infomediary, and software-as-a-service technology aimed at buy-side firms and other capital markets…
July 2017: Performance Anxiety
For asset managers, after making the best possible investment decisions, their next most important function is to measure their performance and attribute it to parts of their portfolios transparently and accurately, according to Victor. Transparency, it…
Hedge Fund Village Capital Partners with Ullink for Post-Trade Support
Implementation extends Village Capital's use of Ullink's XILIX EMS, which now supports a range of post-trade processes.
Boylan Leaves Goldman Sachs for Biz Dev Role at Dash Financial
Bob Boylan joins Dash Financial from Goldman Sachs, where he most recently led the bank's electronic trading hedge fund sales team, following several years as head of its broker-dealer and international electronic institutional sales group.
LiquidityBook Installs Thompson to Drive Euro Growth
New York-based LiquidityBook has appointed Nicholas Thompson as manager of its Client Services operations for EMEA, as the firm sees increased demand for its POEMS offering in the region.
June 2017: Will AI Deliver Where Blockchain Has Disappointed?
Victor says artificial intelligence (AI) has reached its tipping point, and its march forward in the capital markets is unstoppable.
Performance, Attribution and Risk Event will Address Buy-Side Middle-Office Challenges
Half-day event, sponsored by StatPro, will focus on the operational and technology challenges around transforming the middle office from a cost center to a differentiator.
Fees and Expense Management Interview Series Part III: Tech to Assist on Fees & Expense Management Front
Victor Anderson recently sat down with SmartStream's Bharat Malesha to discuss the technology available to capital markets firms when it comes to dealing with fees and expense management.
Ten Takeaways from this year’s European Buy-Side Technology Summit
Victor Anderson looks back at yesterday's European Buy-Side Technology Summit 2017 and lists 10 takeaways that cropped up during the day's discussions.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: FRTB in the Sell-Side Spotlight
The Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017, held on the evening of April 5 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, were notable for two reasons: FRTB, or the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, featured across the number of different categories and in no…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
The two final categories of this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards ─ best overall sell-side product for 2017 and best sell-side technology provider for 2017 ─ were won by Nasdaq and IHS Markit, respectively.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best use of the Agile Methodology—Synechron
This category, the first time it has been on offer in the Sell-Side Technology Awards, is awarded to a third-party technology vendor that has embraced the “early and often” release cadence synonymous with the Agile methodology, while also focusing its…
SST Awards 2017 Winners’ Interview: Broadridge Retains its Outsourcing Crown
Victor Anderson speaks to Broadridge's Michael Alexander about various aspects of the firm's outsourcing business in the wake of its second consecutive win in the best outsourcing category at this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards.
SST Awards 2017 Winners’ Interview: SmartStream Maintains its Reconciliations Dominance
SmartStream continued it domination of the reconciliations category at this year's SST Awards, thanks to its TLM Reconciliations Premium platform. Victor Anderson speaks to Rocky Martinez about what sets the offering apart in a highly competitive…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—IHS Markit
The newcomer categories in the Sell-Side Technology and Buy-Side Technology Awards are by far and away the most popular, regularly attracting 20-plus entries. This year Waters received 21 entries, which, after the first round of voting, were whittled…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year—Nasdaq
The best overall product category is traditionally one of only two announced at the annual Sell-Side and Buy-Side Technology Awards held in New York and London, respectively.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year—IHS Markit
Like it or not, many in the industry were uncertain just how Markit and two of its highest profile acquisitions—Cadis, acquired in May 2012, and thinkFolio, some 18 months later in early 2014—would get on together.
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—SmartStream
SmartStream wins the best sell-side reconciliation platform at the SST Awards for the fifth straight year, thanks to its TLM Reconciliations-Premium offering.
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—Synechron
Synechron’s Blockchain Accelerator Program helped it win two awards at this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards: best distributed-ledger technology project and best use of the Agile methodology.
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions won the best outsourcing provider category for the second straight year at this year's Sell Side Technology Awards held at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.
Fees and Expense Management Interview Series Part II: Focusing on TCA
In part two of this three-part series, Victor Anderson chats to SmartStream's Bharat Malesha about transaction-cost analysis and the challenges facing capital markets firms when calculating the various costs of doing business.