BISAM
The Big Crunch: Traditional Tech’s Great Contraction
Waters examines how this recent wave of consolidation is different than previous periods of contraction.
FactSet’s Acquisition of BISAM Latest in Long Line of Moves to Bolster Enterprise Solution
The Norwalk, Conn.-based vendor has made a string of acquisitions all in the name of creating the best enterprise-wide solution for portfolio management.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 63: Acquisition Analysis, Rise of Data Spend
Dan and Anthony analyze four big deals from the past month and look back on data spend in 2016.
Risk and Reward: Natixis and BISAM Push the Risk Envelope
Natixis Global Asset Management’s Marina Gross explains the rationale for selecting BISAM as the build partner for its Portfolio Clarity Web Portal.
FactSet Buys BISAM for $205.2 Million
The Norwalk, Conn.-based vendor acquires the performance measurement and attribution platform provider.
Buy Side Struggles to Integrate Analytics
Linking performance attribution and risk has clear benefits, but fragmented approaches are making it hard for firms to unify processes and underlying data. Clive Davidson outlines the key challenges, and how firms are addressing them.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Service to the Industry Awards—BISAM, IHS Markit and RIMES Technologies
BST acknowledges three truly-innovative firms serving the buy side.
BST Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: BISAM & Natixis
BISAM, with its alliance partner Natixis Global Asset Management, won this year's best risk management initiative category, one of three wins for the New York-based firm.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—BISAM
BISAM wins its second category of this year’s BST Awards, thanks to its Cognity risk management platform, which became part of the BISAM stable in the wake of its acquisition of risk management specialist FinAnalytica in March this year. Past recipients…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BISAM
Performance and attribution—ostensibly two sides of the same coin—are the two most important functions that buy-side firms need to manage in order to justify their existence.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Performance Measurement and Attribution System Provider — BISAM
If order management systems constitute the heart of a buy-side firm, then performance measurement and attribution platforms are their brains, responsible for providing reliable information and transparency into how exactly they are performing and whether…
Barclays Point Fixed-Income Users Worry About Bloomberg Port Conversion
A recent survey found that the fixed-income community has major concerns about the sunsetting of Barclays' Point platform.
BISAM Acquires FinAnalytica, Bringing Together Performance, Risk Analytics
FinAnalytica's Cognity risk analytics platform will remain as a standalone offering for the near future.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BI-SAM
Ask any buy-side firm about their raison d’être and performance is likely to feature prominently in pretty much every response, irrespective of the size of the firm, the complexity of its investment strategies and operations, and the number of years it…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015 Winners’ Interview: BI-SAM
Bill Haney, chats to David Dawkins about his first year in the CEO's role, and BI-SAM's plans for the year ahead.
Buy-Side Performance Teams Hobbled by Manual Processes, Scalability Limits
Vendor survey highlights trends in performance teams at asset managers
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: William Haney, BI-SAM
William Haney, CEO of BI-SAM, speaks with Waters' James Rundle about his firm's win at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BI-SAM
Competition is fierce among technology vendors serving the performance measurement and attribution space, but for the seventh consecutive year, the Buy-Side Technology Awards’ judging panel found BI-SAM’s B-One platform to be the performance measurement…
BI-SAM Names Ex-Thomson Vet Haney CEO
Former Thomson exec will complete transition from COO to CEO in January
Bill Haney Takes over as CEO of BI-SAM
William Haney has assumed the role of chief executive at BI-SAM, replacing founder Alexandre Harkous, who will remain as a member of the company's board of directors.
StatPro Taps Thompson for Client Integrations
Data and portfolio analytics provider StatPro has hired Ian Thompson as client integration director, responsible for helping the vendor's product development teams to smoothly transition clients to its cloud-based StatPro Revolution analytics platform…