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StatPro launches new product to reduce credit risk
StatPro, the London-based provider of buy-side portfolio analytics, risk management and data systems, has released the latest version of its flagship risk management product.
Brazilian fund administrator rolls out Charles River IMS
Mellon Serviços Financeiros, a Brazilian fund administrator and subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation with $26 billion under administration, is implementing the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) to monitor compliance.
Pre-trade TCA: New challenges, new technology
Stewart Eisenhart looks at a recent Aite Group report – Multi-asset portfolio systems: the buy side’s new pied piper – and concludes that although there is a sizable market in the US and UK for such systems, vendors are likely to find greater demand from…
Jefferies to offer LongView ASP to hedge fund clients
The prime brokerage unit of investment bank Jefferies & Company has partnered with Linedata Services to offer an ASP version of the vendor's LongView Trading OMS to its hedge fund clients.
Multiple choices – Not all prime brokers are created equal: Joel Clark investigates the criteria employed by hedge funds to differentiate one prime broker from another, and concludes that the multi-broker model is the most feasible and flexible approach f
The relationship between hedge funds and prime brokers has always been complex, but as alpha remains the objective for fund managers and as markets remain volatile, that relationship is changing. Joel Clark investigates the criteria funds employ to…
Spotlight on Sam Somech
Sam Somech knows his middleware. The technology veteran who invented trans-actional messaging has set his sights on derivatives, heading up research and development at SuperDerivatives. He talks with Stewart Eisenhart about why he joined the vendor, and…
Cornhill Asset Management goes live with Fidessa ETW
Cornhill Asset Management, a London-based boutique brokerage firm specialising in private equity and initial public offerings (IPOs), has implemented Fidessa's European Trader Workstation (ETW).
Laws of attraction – Institutional capital flowing into the hedge fund industry comes at a price – investors expect operational transparency and industry accepted best practices when it comes to risk management. Victor Anderson outlines how funds in the F
Risk management disciplines across the buy side have traditionally ranged from relatively sophisticated - relative that is compared with sell-side organisations - to downright rudimentary. But that is set to change, especially in the Far East where funds…
Trade processing costs press the need for buy-side aggregation tools
Stewart Eisenhart analyses a recent Riskmetrics report suggesting the techniques and technologies that buy-side firms could deploy in order to potentially avert future valuation crises such as the current sub-prime mortgage melt down unfolding in the US.
Derivatives altering buy-side portfolio system requirements
The market for buy-side portfolio systems is expected to total $2.67 billion by 2010 as Asian and European-based buy-side firms' operational and technology requirements increase, and as managers generally extend their use of over-the-counter derivative…
Colt to Expand Proximity Hosting Data Service
LONDON-Infrastructure and network services provider Colt Telecom is planning to expand its proximity hosting services to include datacenters in London, Madrid and Milan, and will eventually utilize all of its 16 datacenters in 10 countries across Europe…
Colt to Expand Proximity Hosting Data Service
Infrastructure and network services provider Colt Telecom is planning to expand its proximity hosting services to include datacenters in London, Madrid and Milan, and will eventually utilize all of its 16 datacenters in 10 countries across Europe to…
Société Générale Takes Risk to Grid
PARIS-The Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division of French banking giant Société Générale (SocGen) has moved its credit risk calculations onto the bank's grid computing environment powered by Platform Computing's Symphony solution, vendor…
Börse Berlin Acquires Equiduct
BERLIN & London-German regional exchange Börse Berlin is set to buy a majority stake in pan-European market operator Equiduct, DWT has learned.
Nasdaq, Börse Dubai Enter OMX Pact
STOCKHOLM-The Nasdaq Stock Market and state-run Borse Dubai announced a deal last Thursday to join forces and acquire exchange operator and technology provider OMX.
Panel: Fragmented Europe Drives Latency Focus
Growing data volumes arising from the emergence of new markets in Europe will increase the use of technology to automate parts of the trading process and prompt a greater focus on latency in the region, according to an industry panel hosted by Colt…
RTI Enlists Coral8 for CEP-Enabled Middleware
Real-Time Innovations, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of real-time messaging middleware has licensed software from Mountain View, Calif.-based complex event processing (CEP) vendor Coral8 to boost the CEP capabilities available as an integrated…