Victor Anderson
Victor Anderson is editor-in-chief of Waters magazine and WatersTechnology. He joined the Risk Waters Group, now part of Incisive Media, in 2001. Victor was born and grew up in South Africa and was an English, History of Art and Director of Sports teacher before making the change to journalism. Before leaving South Africa, while working for Redsand Publishing, he edited a number of magazines for the United Cricket Board of South Africa, the South African Rugby Football Union, and the Professional Golfers' Association of South Africa.
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Fundtech Appoints McGaffey as Head of Sales for the Americas
Jersey City-based Fundtech, a provider of transaction banking technology and services, has hired Kyle McGaffey as sales manager for the Americas.
Calypso Unveils DTCC Interface to Support EMIR Reporting
San Francisco-based Calypso Technology has released an interface to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp’s (DTCCs) Global Trade Repository (GTR) service, a repository holding global OTC derivatives transaction data, to assist firms with their European…
February 2014: In Praise of the Corporate Plodder
I’m not sure whether there’s a formal name for them – a quick Google search suggests that my hunch is spot-on – but I regularly use a collective term to describe the drones of the business, the worker bees, the foot soldiers: corporate plodders.
Inglis Set for AIMA Helm
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association, has announced that Jack Inglis will take over as its CEO from February 1.
BCS Appoints Barker Executive Chairman
BCS, the largest trader of equities and FX on the Moscow Exchange, has appointed John Barker as executive chairman of the BCS Financial Group in London. Barker assumed his new role at the start of January 2014.
Conde joins Calastone Board
Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has appointed former SunGard chief executive, Cristóbal Conde, as non-executive director. Conde will take a seat on the Calastone board and has also purchased a minority stake in the privately held…
Big Data Webcast: Analyze This
As a consequence of their participation in the capital markets, the necessary evils that all buy-side and sell-side firms have been forced to address include mounting data volumes, greater data varieties, and increased data velocity, all of which must be…
January 2014: Do Algorithms Dream of Super-Fast Sheep?
While algorithms are far from sentient, Victor wonders what they would think about if they could.
AFTAs 2013: The Winners and Why They Won
It’s difficult to believe that Waters first unveiled the American Financial Technology Awards all the way back in 2005, although anyone who has worked in financial services for any length of time will appreciate the extent to which time flies in this…
AFTAs 2013: Best IT Team—BNY Mellon
There’s a reason why the best IT team category is the final announcement at the American Financial Technology Awards: It’s the highest profile, and therefore the most prized, of all 16 categories on offer. BNY Mellon’s IT team, under the tutelage of…
AFTAs 2013: Best IT Integration Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
IT integration projects have an annoying habit of resembling icebergs: They might appear to be relatively rudimentary undertakings at the outset, but they invariably grow in complexity, timescale, and budget as they progress, often throwing up more…
AFTAs 2013: Best Data Management Initiative—Citi
The disciplines and processes that fall under the data management moniker are the best examples of tasks for which no finish line exists. It is a given that all financial services firms need to cost-effectively manage their data, whatever its prefix—big,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Global Deployment—Instinet
It is no secret that some of the most complex and laborious technology projects in the capital markets come on the back of mergers or acquisitions—necessary evils of participating in a constantly evolving industry. It is therefore not surprising that the…
Teenage Sex and the Virtues of Being Nice
I have, over the last 12 years, had the opportunity of covering a wide variety of subjects while writing about financial technology, although I never anticipated stumbling across the issue of teenage sex during the course of my work. You’ll need to carry…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2013—Eagle Investment Systems
By winning the most prestigious category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the second of two awards announced at the awards luncheon on November 1, Eagle Investment Systems created a little bit of history by becoming the first company to do so…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Buy-Side Product for 2013—LCH.Clearnet
The penultimate category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the best buy-side product of the year, was the first of only two awards announced on the day of the BST Awards luncheon on November 1 in London. Each of the 26 individual category winners…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—Vermilion Software
Only one category in the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards—the best implementation at a buy-side firm—specifically considers the practical implications of a third-party provider’s technology from an end-user’s perspective. This category, therefore, is…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Compliance Product—Linedata
As mentioned at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards luncheon on November 1, if any category could be described as ushering in a changing of the guard, it would be this one. After all, Fidessa has dominated this category every year since the inaugural…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side—Rimes Technologies
Here we are in 2013 and still only one company, Rimes Technologies, has won the best data provider category since the first edition of the Buy-Side Technology Awards in 2007. One might be forgiven for assuming that perhaps this category is “unpopular” or…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Winners' Circle—Rimes Technologies
Waters speaks with Alessandro Ferrari, senior vice president of global marketing at Rimes Technologies, about the company winning the best data provider to the buy side category in the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards for the past seven straight years,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product—Markit
It’s difficult knowing what to write about Markit EDM that hasn’t already appeared in Buy-Side Technology and Waters. After all, the London-based vendor—known as Cadis until early 2012 when it joined the Markit stable, ending months of speculation…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BI-SAM
BI-SAM takes home this year’s best performance measurement and attribution product category, making it five wins for the Paris-headquartered vendor. As usual, this category was fought out by a small core of performance specialists, and BI-SAM, for the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Rolling Out the Big Gun
The last two editions of the Buy-Side Technology Awards have had a strong rugby union bias, given that the luncheon falls on the first Friday of November, coinciding with the Autumn Internationals, where the best teams from the southern hemisphere travel…
Data Governance Webcast: Accepting Accountability
If last year’s industry buzzwords were “big” and “data,” this year is all about data governance — the variables that all financial services firms need to develop and implement in order to improve the accuracy, transparency and accountability around their…