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Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side─OneMarketData
Not since “cloud computing” has a term swept the industry quite like “Big Data.” And like cloud, there are many theories and definitions as to what can be called Big Data, how best to tame it, and how to use it to gain an advantage over the competition.
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 Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) and Best Buy-Side Product for 2012─Advise Technologies
The year 2012 will perhaps best be marked in the hedge fund community as the year that Form PF, introduced on the back of the Dodd–Frank Act, fully came into existence. In August, hedge funds with more than $5 billion in regulatory assets under…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Compliance Platform─Fidessa
Fidessa has an enviable track record in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, having won a category every year since the awards launched in 2007, although its 2007 and 2008 wins in the best buy-side execution management system (EMS) category, its 2008 and 2009…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology─UBS
The engineers behind UBS Delta consider themselves flexible and innovative like a software company, but with the resources and support of their enormous parent bank. Since its inception 14 years ago, the portfolio risk and performance system has catered…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Client Reporting Platform─Equipos
Equipos’ ability to deliver client-reporting functionality that is scalable, along with document management and business user-definable workflows and layouts on a global scale, has allowed it to find a sweet spot in the Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Portfolio Accounting Platform─Multifonds
In one of the bigger upsets of this year’s awards, Luxembourg-based Multifonds has ended Advent Geneva’s five-year run atop this category. It did so by approaching portfolio accounting through a single integrated platform, rather than separate systems…
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 Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform/Service─Trading Technologies
It is testament to X_Trader’s breadth that the multi-asset platform has captured this category four years running. The buy side can rely on X_Trader, Chicago-based Trading Technologies’ flagship offering, for synthetic spreading, charting, and analytics…
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: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service─ConvergEx Group (Abraxas)
Abraxas was a Gnostic deity believed to be the god of light and darkness. If you’re going to create an algorithm to seek out both dark and lit liquidity, there’s not a more apt name, although it’s the cleverness of this offering that won ConvergEx Group…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side OMS─ConvergEx's Eze OMS
The role of the order management system (OMS) has been changing for some time now. In recent years the buy side has been feverishly investing to integrate their OMSs with their execution management systems (EMSs), accounting, and transaction-cost…
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…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side EMS─Portware
Just as RealTick won the execution management system (EMS) award last year after being bought by ConvergEx, Portware earned the win in this perennially competitive category thanks largely to an acquisition of its own. In May, the company acquired a suite…
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.
Bending the Rules
Innovative use-cases at BNY Mellon and M&T Bank highlight how technology can better harness “data in motion,” just as firms are evolving the way their applications are controlled and behave. By Tim Bourgaize Murray
Risk's Regulatory Whirlwind
Regulatory uncertainty once again dominated discussions during a recent risk and compliance webcast, with the main concern relating to how much time firms will have to make necessary changes to their risk strategies. By Steve Dew-Jones
Investors Demand Cleaner Data, Faster
Investment managers are being asked for more accurate data, in greater detail and with increased regularity. By Steve Dew-Jones
Checks and Balances: Real-Time Reconciliation's IT Challenges
Although most firms tend to perform reconciliations on a same-day basis, these processes are dominated by manual input and prone to errors. Automated, real-time reconciliation has benefits not only for risk management, but also compliance and in…
Private Ties: Technology Rises in Private Equity
Much of private equity rests on old relationships and privity of information, but with limited partnership investments becoming more common for a wider array of investors, and a secondaries market gaining steam, technology is blossoming in unlikely…
Citadel's Sentinel: CIO Tom Miglis Aims to Do the Impossible
Commitment to investors is the thesis at Ken Griffin’s Citadel, but how the firm achieves returns—through technology—is unique for a hedge fund. Steering strategy and growing the firm’s vaunted development capacity, CIO Tom Miglis is trusted with leading…
Algos: Human After All?
Specialist firms are customizing algorithms to the needs of buy-side firms, making them better at reacting to market conditions and, ultimately, more like humans. By Steve Dew-Jones
Open Platform: The Data-Centric Approach
As institutions seek to generate alpha in a low-interest rate environment, there has been an explosion in the types of investments firms are engaging in, including derivatives and alternatives. As a result, many front-office solutions providers have…