Portfolio
Northfield Partners with Alexandria for Sentiment-Based Risk Models
The offering aims to help users quantify risk based on the latest news.
AFTAs 2017: Best Trading Infrastructure Provider—Cobalt
Post-trade shared-ledger platform Cobalt wins this year’s best trading infrastructure provider at the AFTAs, knocking off previous winner, Trumid Financial. The win comes down to Cobalt’s private network that leverages distributed-ledger technology (DLT)…
AFTAs 2017: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Middle and Back Office—S3 Partners
New York-based S3 Partners has enjoyed success in the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards over the past three years, taking home awards for best newcomer, best big data technology provider and best data analytics tools. It was only a matter of time,…
AFTAs 2017: Best Third-Party Technology Vendor IT Team—Axioma
New York-based risk management solutions provider Axioma makes it into the winners’ circle at the 2017 AFTAs, bagging the best third-party technology vendor IT team award. The company has two IT teams—platform development and implementation. These two…
Finastra Adds Porfirio to Capital Markets Team
Pedro Porfirio will be based in London, where Finastra is headquartered. Finastra was created after the merger of D+H and Misys.
After Building an AI Black Swan Detector, Compellon Mulls Path Forward
The California-based company has built a quantitative analysis engine using machine learning to help score sell-side analysts and search for potential black-swan events.
2017: A Year in Profiles
Waters profiled 12 C-level executives in 12 months.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side OMS—IHS Markit
thinkFolio has become a tool to understand and keep pace of different investment products
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—SimCorp
SimCorp has improved the way it handles P&L by enhancing the support of cost-basis adjustment.
Big Tech May Take a Bite out of Asset Management
Asset managers could find themselves disrupted by technology companies in the near future, a study finds.
GDAX Releases Framework for New Digital Assets
Digital currency exchange sets out criteria for admitting cryptocurrencies to trading.
The Entrepreneur: Furio Pietribiasi, Mediolanum Asset Management
The Italian managing director of Mediolanum AM explains why technology is critical to today's financial services industry.
Finbourne Debuts Lusid Platform, Aims to Become Market Utility
UBS Delta, Nomura and RBS vets launch platform that aims to simplify infrastructure concerns for asset managers.
Paying It Forward: The New Era of Investment Research
Fundamental change is coming to how research is paid for under new European rules, and the impact cannot be underestimated.
Grim Rituals and Bad Omens
Disaster recovery and business continuity plans take center stage in 2017
SS&C Advent Targets Order Creation with Genesis Release
The Moxy tool will add cloud-based, automated portfolio rebalancing capabilities with dramatic time reductions.
Malaysian Investors Turn to Analytics for Alpha Generation
Artificial intelligence and advanced technology are powering the next generation of investment in Malaysia
SIX Updates Data Service in Response to U.S. Sanctions Against Venezuela
SIX Financial Information updates global data service to help financial institutions address new U.S. sanctions against Venezuela.
The Investment Blockchain of Record
Blockchain is over-hyped in many instances—but perhaps not this one
Fidelity Continues Digital Currency Experimentation with Coinbase Link
Investment manager partners with Coinbase to allow digital currency holdings to be represented in portfolio views
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Buy-Side Execution Management System Provider— Eze Software Group
Eze continues its dominance in the execution-management space with Eze EMS, formerly known as RealTick.
Frontier Finance: Shaky Foundations Hinder Digital Currencies
Digital currencies are going through birth pains as an asset class, but some believe they can become the next commodity of choice for traders
The Approaching Fintech Flip
Incumbent vendors may turn the table on fintech upstarts, once regulation begins to calm down
Proactive Steps to Passive Trading in Asia
Asia still leans toward active investing, but that is changing.