Articles by Victor Anderson
OppenheimerFunds' Allu on Centralizing Data Feeds
Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of Waters, speaks to OppenheimerFunds' Ramesh Allu at a Rimes and BI-SAM co-sponsored industry roundtable held in New York.
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuations Service─Markit
Pricing is Markit’s bread and butter─it always has been, and, unless CEO Lance Uggla and his management team make a dramatic directional change to the vendor─which boasts a headcount of 2,500—it always will be. Markit’s pricing strategy, which covers…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2012─Markit
The recipient of this final award of the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards is traditionally decided by Waters’ two editors—Victor Anderson and Anthony Malakian. The past four years set something of a precedent: The winners— Linedata Services in 2008,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm─SimCorp
Copenhagen-based SimCorp is a rare animal indeed—it is one of the only buy-side–focused third-party technology vendors that offers a true all-singing-all-dancing, front-to-back- office investment management platform, a strategy that has yielded handsome…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Risk Initiative Over the Last 12 Months─IBM Risk Analytics
IBM Risk Analytics—formerly known as Algorithmics and now fully integrated with its parent company, IBM—since its initial win in the best risk/portfolio provider category back in 2008, has won or been close to winning that award each year. This year,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Tool─Markit
Given the importance that transaction-cost analysis (TCA) functions play across the buy side in terms of providing firms with a consistent, repeatable and disciplined approach to assessing the slippage affecting their orders, it was only a matter of time…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side─Rimes Technologies
If ever there was a technology provider that proved the worth of identifying a niche, servicing organizations operating in that market, working closely alongside its client base to consistently enhance its offerings, and exercising the necessary…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product─Markit EDM
The rumor mill in the City of London kicked into overdrive some 18 months ago as speculation steadily mounted that Cadis, one of the brightest stars in the third-party technology provider community, was about to be acquired. Bloomberg seemed to be the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Performance Measurement and Attribution Product─BI-SAM
Paris-based BI-SAM, like Rimes and Markit EDM, has reaped the rewards of maintaining its focus on its target market—buy-side performance measurement and attribution—although, in recent years, it has added client reporting and risk functionality to its B…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: A Hard Act to Follow
At last year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards, the guest speaker, New Zealand rugby union legend Sean Fitzpatrick, left a lasting impression. Could his impressive performance be matched? On November 2 at 1 Whitehall in London, ex-England rugby union…
BlueCrest Looks to Calypso for Front-Office Support
London-based hedge fund group BlueCrest Capital Management, with approximately $33 billion under management, has chosen Calypso's Front Office platform to support its funds.
December 2012: The Other Butterfly Effect
Victor says acquisitions can be great successes or dismal failures, and firms must be vigilant and keep their focus on what matters.
Queen's University's Woods Says FPGAs Becoming More Accessible
Roger Woods, professor of computer science, ECIT at Queen's University in Belfast, speaks to Victor Anderson at this year's European Trading Architecture Summit held at Canary Wharf in London.
Caplin's Myles Sees Mobile Execution Apps on the Horizon
Patrick Myles, chief technology officer of London-based Caplin Systems, speaks to Victor Anderson at this year's European Trading Architecture Summit held at Canary Wharf in London.
Azul's Mills Advocates Infrastructure Over Speed
David Mills, EMEA regional director at Azul Systems, speaks to Victor Anderson at this year's European Trading Architecture Summit, held at Canary Wharf in London.
FGS Capital's Jogi Narain Wary of Shorting Rules
Jogi Narain, chief technology officer of London-based buy-side firm FGS Capital speaks to Victor Anderson at this year's European Trading Architecture Summit held at Canary Wharf in London.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2012: The Winners
Buy-Side Technology is pleased to announce the winners of the sixth annual Buy-Side Technology Awards. The Awards were held earlier today, November 2, at One Whitehall Place in London. Guest of honor was former England rugby international Will Greenwood,…
LSE Group Names Hibernia Atlantic as Accredited Connectivity Partner
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group has named Hibernia Atlantic as an Accredited Connectivity Partner, part of the LSE Group’s new Customer Managed Connectivity (CMC) service, which allows customers direct access to its markets through Accredited…
November 2012: I Love the Smell of Irony in the Morning
Victor doesn't like change, but acknowledges it is a constant, so as the capital markets evolve, so, too, must technology.
Knowles Joins RIMES from JPMorgan
Compliance specialist Andrew Knowles has joined RIMES Technologies, a provider of index and benchmark data management technology and services primarily to the asset management industry, to spearhead the business development for RIMES' Compliance Services…
BI-SAM Appoints Juma To Lead Americas Expansion
BI-SAM Technologies, the Paris-based provider of data management, performance, attribution, risk, and reporting technologies to the asset management industry, has appointed Sami Juma general manager of its regional operations in the Americas.
SimCorp: Back Office Hamstringing Buy-Side Growth Strategies
Copenhagen-based buy-side technology provider SimCorp has published the results of a poll examining the impact of portfolio accounting systems on an investment manager's growth strategies and their vulnerability to operational risks. Respondents included…
Charles River Unveils Mobile App for Buy-Side Users
Burlington-based buy-side front-office technology provider Charles River Development has gone to market with Charles River Mobile, a tablet and smartphone app that provides secure remote access to the Charles River Investment Management Solution, the…
ABN Amro Relies on MXG Team for Murex Rework
Amsterdam-based ABN Amro Bank is live on a "reworked" version of Murex's End of Day (EOD) and Value at Risk (VaR) reporting platform, a project managed in conjunction with MXG Team Limited, a Dublin-based privately owned specialist Murex consultancy.