Articles by Victor Anderson
Waters Rankings 2015: Best Transaction-Cost Analysis System Provider ─ ITG
ITG has won this award both years that it's been on offer.
Unrealistic Expectations: 7 Capital Markets CIOs Discuss Current Challenges, Opportunities
An inside look at new technologies disrupting the market, and the ever-challenging 'people equation'.
Waters Rankings 2015: Best Portfolio Management System Provider ─ Bloomberg
Bloomberg won four categories in this year's Rankings
August 2015: Reading the tea leaves
Victor Anderson looks at the "Waters effect".
Waters Rankings 2015: Best Data Analytics Provider ─ S3 Partners
S3 follows-up on its BST Awards win as the best newcomer.
July 2015: Paying it Forward
Internships as the pathway to the future.
Azini Capital Snaps Up ClusterSeven
Azini acquires the whole of ClusterSeven, a provider of spreadsheet management and transparency tools.
Webcast: Rimes Technologies Data Management Webcast
Rimes Technologies recently published the Rimes 2015 Buy-Side Survey, a body of research that polled 120 department heads and senior professionals from a range of North American, EMEA and Asia-Pacific buy-side firms. This webcast covers many of the…
SunGard’s Post-Trade Derivatives Utility Open for Business
Barclays is utility's anchor client, benefiting from its clearing, margin-processing and reporting support.
Chartis Research Joins Incisive Media Stable
Chartis will join Incisive Media's Incisive Insight division, home of Risk magazine and the firm's WatersTechnology group.
Jyske Bank Signs with Vermilion for VRS, Data Mart Services
Key to the contract was the ease ease with which the VRS could be integrated existing portfolio management systems.
June 2015: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Victor Anderson says firms need to bring in talent from other industries.
SST Awards 2015: All the Winners and Why they Won
This year's awards featured a number of new firms in the winners' circle and four new categories.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year — Bloomberg
In winning the final category of the SST Awards 2015, the second of only two awards announced on the evening of April 21, Bloomberg joins an elite group of third-party technology vendors serving the sell side to have won the most prestigious of the 27…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015 Winners' Circle: SmartStream
Kurt Eldridge speaks to Dan DeFrancesco about SmartStream's third win in as many years in the SST Awards.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015 Winners' Circle: Bloomberg
Mike Wood chats to Dan DeFrancesco about Bloomberg being adjudged the best technology provider for 2015 at this year's SST Awards.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015 Winners' Circle: IPC
IPC's Bruce Bolcer talks about IPC's recently launched soft switch technology.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015 Winners' Circle: Fidessa
Jay Biancomano talks about Fidessa's win in the best front-office trading platform category.
May 2015: Tall Poppy Syndrome is Alive and Well
Bloomberg Professional's blank day on April 17.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform — Fidessa
Fidessa’s inclusion in the SST Awards winners’ circle is long overdue. In fact, it’s hard to believe that an organization the size of Fidessa, with its range of technologies and services, and its enviable track record across the sell side and the buy…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Datacenter Provider to the Sell Side — Australian Securities Exchange
By winning the best datacenter provider category in the Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015, the Sydney-based Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC), part of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), created history by becoming the first southern hemisphere…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm — Numerix
The best implementation category is the only award of the 27 on offer in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards that considers the practical implications of a third-party provider’s technology from an end-user’s perspective. The winner, therefore, like…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product — Markit
It’s a challenge when it comes to writing something new about Markit EDM (Enterprise Data Management) that hasn’t already appeared in the pages of Waters over the years. We first encountered the platform back in early 2007 as it took its first tentative…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform — SmartStream
SmartStream is a name that has, by virtue of its domination of this category in the Buy-Side Technology (BST) Awards in recent years, become synonymous with reconciliations, having won this category for four straight years from 2010 to 2013. The London…