Buy-Side Technology/News
Charles River Integrates SEF Workflows with IMS
Charles River Development has announced that its Investment Management System (IMS) product is now compatible with workflows from leading swap execution facilities (SEFs) in the US.
Iridian Selects SEI for Ucits Fund Admin, Custody Services
Iridian Asset Management has chosen SEI to provide a number of services for its Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (Ucits) fund.
Krungsri AM Upgrades Charles River Implementation
The Bangkok-based asset manager is now using the ninth version of IMS, as well as Charles River's FIX Network and Data Storage offerings for electronic trading and real-time price provision at the local Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET).
Numerix, S&P Cap IQ Ink Pricing Partnership
S&P Capital IQ and Numerix have announced a multi-year partnership that will see the former's pricing models integrated within the latter's Portfolio Risk platform.
Rimes Adds Buy-Side Clients Amid Q1 Growth
Rimes has announced a number of client wins in North America at the end of Q1 2014, as its presence continues to grow with the opening of an office in San Francisco.
ConvergEx Completes Actant Integration
The global brokerage services provider says its LiquidPoint options technology business has completed software integration with high-performance trading solutions vendor Actant
SSGX Aligns Trade Execution and Clearing, Adds Corporate Bonds
State Street Global Exchange (SSGX) says it has now aligned its trading and clearing solutions for its Currenex foreign exchange (FX), futures, and fixed income services, with newly-included fixed income intermediation for electronically-traded…
SEI Selects SmartStream for Reconciliations
Fund administrator SEI has selected SmartStream for a joint project that will create a single reconciliations utility within the firm.
Australia's Largest Custodian Picks Eagle for Performance Measurement
National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Asset Servicing business has deployed the performance measurement tool from Eagle Investment Systems to service its 70+ asset management clients’ investment performance measurement requirements.
Capco Appoints Steve Vinnicombe as UK CEO
Consultancy Capco has announced that Steve Vinnicombe will be replacing Andrew Tarver as its UK CEO.
Eze Castle Integration Links with SunGard
Eze Castle Integration (ECI) has announced that its UK buy-side clients using the ECI Link Private Network will now have access to the SunGard Global Network (SGN).
Volant Expands Execution Services through REDIPlus
Market-maker Volant Trading has rolled out extensions to its execution services for options traders, allowing them new capabilities through the REDIPlus execution management system (EMS).
Pyrford International Goes Live on Charles River’s IMS
Pyrford International, a London-based asset manager owned by the Bank of Montreal, has gone live with Charles River’s cloud-based Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS), the vendor has announced.
Liquidnet Expands Market Surveillance Team in Europe
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has expanded its market surveillance team in Europe with the appointment of Christopher Wall as head of market surveillance in Europe and David Stockwell as market surveillance specialist.
BI-SAM Unveils Structural Changes to Support Growth Plan
Paris-headquartered buy-side performance, attribution and risk management vendor BI-SAM has made a number of executive appointments.
Cordium and Indus Valley Partners Team Up for AIFMD Compliance
UK-based compliance specialist Cordium is partnering with New York-based technology provider Indus Valley Partners (IVP) to offer a solution for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive’s (AIFMD) Annex IV reporting requirements.
Lombard Risk Appoints Groetch as Director for the Americas
Lombard Risk Management has appointed John Groetch as its new regional sales director for the Americas.
Ashmore Selects Vermilion for Client Reporting
Software vendor Vermilion has announced that Ashmore Group has gone live with its Vermilion Reporting Suite (VRS), following a four-month implementation.
Morningstar Partners UBS Delta for Solvency II Calculations
Research firm Morningstar UK and UBS Delta have announced a joint offering that will provide Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) calculations to asset managers, as part of the Solvency II regulation.
Liquidnet Appoints Bob Garrett as Head of Technology
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has hired Bob Garrett as head of technology to lead the firm's technical development and for coordinating product developments between the executive team and product managers.
BNP Paribas Securities Services Tackles Big Data Issue with NeoLink
BNP Paribas Securities Services’ CEO Patrick Colle says big data offers both opportunities and challenges.
Twitter Acquires Firehose Provider Gnip
Social media network Twitter has announced its acquisition of Gnip, a data provider that is one of the few to have access to the so-called "firehose" of the micro-blogging service's information.
GW&K Taps Fidessa Sentinel For Compliance
The $20 billion Boston-based investment manager will use the vendor's Sentinel Compliance Service to reduce operating costs across its taxable fixed income, municipal fixed income, institutional, advisory, and private client businesses.
EC to Clarify FX Reporting Rule Under EMIR
The European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation in an attempt to clarify and harmonize the definition and reporting of derivatives contracts falling under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).