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State Street Releases Investment Servicing Solution for Asset Managers
For small and mid-sized asset managers, the platform includes data management, pricing and information delivery among its functions.
Going for Gold: Tech Answers Demand for Physical Holdings
The world’s oldest asset has enjoyed renewed popularity, with prices hitting contemporary highs. But wealth managers are beginning to demand more than ETP shares—investors and institutions want the real deal. As Tim Bourgaize Murray explains, technology…
Ahead of Solvency II, Asset Liability Management Looms Large for Managers
Asset managers with insurer clients are searching for new data management and portfolio optimization platforms as the European regulation inches closer.
State Street to Acquire Goldman Sachs Administration Services
The deal, worth $550 million, is scheduled to complete in Q4, 2012.
When It Comes to Mobile, All Devices Welcome
Phones and tablets aren’t just for Angry Birds. Mobile devices have allowed financial professionals to operate on a 24/7 basis, and be less attached to the office. Jake Thomases explores whether they should be allowed to embed work functionality into…
SVM Asset Management Taps State Street for Fund Administration
International Financial Data Services also chosen to provide SVM's investor record-keeping and transfer agency solutions.
Ontologies Gain Importance
Strapline: Regulation & Standards
BST Panel: Algo Performance More Important Than Speed
Panelists at yesterday's BST European Summit claim asset managers are happy to trade speed for a few basis points of performance.
Scratching the Surface of Mobile Technology
Mobile technology, while still in its nascence in the capital markets, has enjoyed significant uptake over the past 18 months as growing numbers of firms have started to roll out apps designed specifically for tablets and smartphones. But as Victor…
State Street Releases Opera Reporting Solution
With the release of the industry risk aggregation protocol, State Street has announced a new compliant reporting solution.
Despite Cloud Security, Performance Concerns, ‘Adopt It Now’
Security still dominates discussions about cloud computing, but some groups such as high-frequency traders are concerned about its lack of high performance. Still, it is clear that the burgeoning technology is taking hold in the financial services…
Semantic Technology Bears Fruit at State Street
Strapline: Data Management
State Street Adds Equity Exposure Analytics
The new service will provide clients deeper transparency analysis and new functionality.
April 2012: Are We Out of the Woods Yet?
Victor sees shoots of green in the economy and in Wall Street technology initiatives.
It's All Semantics: Top-Tier Banks Investigate Semantic Technology for Data Management
Semantic technology, while still for the most part in the conceptual phase in the capital markets, is a term that is becoming more than just a whisper inside financial institutions. By Anthony Malakian
State Street Launches Valuation Tool
The Fund Insights Valuation Toolkit allows for viewing and understanding of pricing data.
The Haziness of Semantics
While the term "semantics" is starting to pique Wall Street’s interest, actual proof that it is a viable technology is still a while away.
The Return of Green IT
While it hasn’t gotten the attention it did during the green wave of the mid-2000s, environmentally friendly technology is in place at many of the world’s major financial institutions. Jake Thomases looks at the latest initiatives designed to save the…
State Street to Launch a SEF
SwapEx is a derivatives platform designed to comply with Dodd-Frank and EMiR regulation regarding the new trading of OTC derivatives.
State Street Rolls Out Form PF Solution
State Street unveils its own Form PF solution.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best IT Integration Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: It is a great innovation on the part of the staff to develop the Virtual Integration Architecture (VIA). I particularly like how this State Street technology effort led to reusable “process improvements and a project-governance approach.”
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Green IT Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: This is a simple, yet effective solution that leaves lots of potential for the firm to make additional savings in other areas.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Cloud Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: I have always been impressed with how State Street has been a leader in the realm of cloud computing. This is a prime example of how to exploit the technology to its fullest.