Northern Trust
Optimize: The Whens and the Whys
Collateral optimization systems are coming into vogue as a means of handling some of the obligations of Dodd–Frank and EMIR. In part one of a two-part feature, Jake Thomases examines exactly what about the current market is prompting the adoption, and…
Bridgewater Taps Northern Trust for Hedge Fund Servicing
Bridgewater Associates has selected Northern Trust for hedge fund servicing as it tries to improve its middle- and back- office processes.
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: The Winners and Why They Won
The American Financial Technology Awards, now in their eighth year, seek to acknowledge the best IT projects, driven by buy-side and sell-side end-users themselves. Waters congratulates this year’s winners.
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Reporting Initiative — Northern Trust
Often, the best IT implementations are paradoxically those that reduce users’ reliance on IT. When Northern Trust went looking to replace its legacy enterprise reporting system, this was exactly what the firm was trying to achieve. As Dan Houlihan, head…
Northern Trust Brings on Grady for Fund Services
Chicago-based Northern Trust has hired longtime State Street employee Nancy Grady as head of fund administration and fund accounting for North America.
Waters Announces 2012 American Financial Technology Awards Winners
Last night, Waters hosted the eighth annual American Financial Technology Awards banquet, following the Waters USA conference, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
Wells Fargo Exec: Some Hedge Funds Uncomfortable With Vendors' Evaluated Prices
A valuations executive at the fund administrator told delegates at this week's Frankfurt Financial Information Summit that although pricing and valuations vendors believe they have become much more transparent, some hedge funds are still not comfortable…
Euroclear To Launch Online Service For Corporate Actions
EasyWay has been developed in close collaboration with five financial firms and will provide users with a consolidated view of corporate actions data, including uninstructed balances, pending instructions and tri-party collateral
Price, Value, Track: Data the Missing Link in Reformed Swaps Execution
The industry is rapidly confronting swap execution facilities (SEFs), but initiatives surrounding lesser-traded contracts and standardization are required to bring to the swaps market true transparency.
Is The Pricing Right?
Pricing and valuations professionals are starting to advocate the value of spending to ensure transparency of data sourcing
Keeping Solvency II Solvent
The final report on the disclosure and reporting requirements for Solvency II has provided some clarification, but it also highlighted new data management challenges, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Glickman Brings Together Custody and Hedge Fund Admin at Northern Trust
Coming from GlobeOp, Glickman will specialize in developing bespoke solutions in Northern Trust's hedge fund services.
Northern Trust Taps Kearny for Asset Servicing in Western US
He joins the firm from Korte & Associates.
Summertime Blues
The reference data operations industry braces itself for the next wave of regulation represented by Solvency II
Steps To Solvency II
In a webcast hosted by Inside Reference Data on June 15, speakers established the pillars required for compliance with the European capital adequacy and risk regulation. Michael Shashoua reports
Insurers Must Check Custodians' Plans For Solvency II, Says Northern Trust Exec
Northern Trust's Andrew Melville says insurance companies should not assume their asset managers can provide them with the asset data needed for Solvency II reporting, and should check how their custodians and administrators can help them to comply
Generation Investment Management Re-ups with Northern Trust
Covering custody, investment operations, and other services, the outsourcing reappointment comes after an initial agreement in 2005.
Solvency II Webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts to discuss how Solvency II will impact data management processes in a webcast on 14 June
Northern Trust Saves With Data Handling Changes
Strapline: Data Management
Total (Data) Quality Management
Inside Reference Data gathered a panel of leading industry experts to discuss the current characteristics of data management that are seen as important to reference data operations projects. Data quality, master data management and the legal entity…
Northern Trust Streamlines Outsourcing Operation with Cadis
Moves to centralize clients onto a single platform.
Funds of Hedge Funds' Last Stand?
The fund of hedge funds market has long been a manually intensive one. New regulations and strategies—and a general desire to survive—have led to a push for automation throughout the industry. By Anthony Malakian