OTAS Breaks into Germany with Union Win

Asset manager adds big data capabilities with platform.

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The Frankfurt-headquartered firm is one of Europe's largest asset managers.

OTAS runs an alerting service designed to flag up potential trading opportunities and risks on existing trades, delivered through a cloud-based mechanism. The firm, which has over EUR220 billion ($274 billion) in assets under management, is also using the vendor's Trade Shaper platform.

"The Traders in my team are being more involved in the investment process as a whole and deliver trading-related market intelligence to our portfolio managers. It is an essential element of our daily service to highlight increased risks or opportunities before executing our portfolio managers' orders," says Christoph Hock, head of trading at Union Investment. "Greater focus on trade entry and exit points, while highlighting immediate risk across key market observables is essential to improving performance. Our traders are also fully utilizing OTAS Trade Shaper in achieving best execution."

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