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French fund administrator rolls out Capstone Minerva
Natixis Investor Servicing (NIS), a French fund administrator and provider of middle- and back-office services to the asset management industry, has gone live with Capstone Minerva, the flagship order management system (OMS) from Fidessa LatentZero.
Corporate firefighters – Joel Clark looks at enterprise data management initiatives on the buy side and concludes that firms’ approaches to managing data is more reactive than proactive due to spiralling costs and debilitating time frames.
As buy-side firms trade increasingly complex instruments and new regulations demand stronger evidence of best execution, it seems a natural time to streamline the processes governing the management of data across the organisation. But as Joel Clark…
Hammer Time – Joel Clark plots the rise in popularity of internet-based auction platforms for the securities lending industry and explains the transparency and competition benefits offered by such systems.
Securities lending represents a growing part of the over-the-counter market, allowing investors to make short-term loans of their securities to generate revenues from their portfolios. Automation is a strong trend in the market, with several technology…
Brokers under pressure to provide more multi-asset tools
Demand for integrated, multi-asset trading front-ends is growing on the buy side as asset managers seek returns from an increasingly wide range of asset classes. The brokers who best address this need stand to gain a significant advantage over their…
Viteos boards Credit Suisse's ASP bandwagon
Viteos Fund Services, a Somerset, NJ-based provider of middle-office, accounting and administration services, has partnered with the prime brokerage division of Credit Suisse to deliver its services to the bank's hedge fund clients.
Bain Capital rolls out ClariFI's ModelStation
Bain Capital, the Boston-based private investment firm with $40 billion under management, has deployed ModelStation, a strategy simulation platform developed by NY-based vendor ClariFI.
Beachy keen
BST Columnist Phil Albinus prepares for his August vacation by taking a tongue-in-cheek look at a number of buy-side technology issues likely to be addressed in the second half of 2007, including preparing Mifid ‘alibis’ in anticipation of your firm’s…
Moxy upgrade expands support for high net-worth managers
Advent Software has developed an upgraded version of its Moxy buy-side order management sys-tem, Moxy 6.0, with enhancements targeting operational requirements of institutional and high net-worth asset managers.
Making Global Warming Pay
The nice thing about capitalism is that no matter what happens, for better or worse, there is always a way to make a buck, or a quid, off it.
Toronto Stock Exchange Readies ATX
TORONTO—The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) plans to roll out its Alternative Trade eXecution (ATX) trading platform by the end of August, say officials from TSX Group, operator of the exchange.
Chi-X Gains Industry Support
LONDON—Instinet alternative trading system (ATS) Chi-X is gaining traction in the European markets as more clients demand datafeeds from the pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF), say vendor officials.
FIX Protocol Goes Algo
LONDON—FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) officials announced last week that the organization's new FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXATDL) has entered its beta-testing phase and should be released later this year.
City of London Prepared for Potential Deluge
LONDON—As the U.K. experiences its worst flooding in 60 years, financial firms in the City of London and Canary Wharf aren't in harm's way, but they say they are prepared for the possibility of a flood.
Paying for Mifid
Call me a cynic, but is there any firm in the industry that doesn't expect to write a large check to regulators once the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) goes into effect on Nov. 1?