Buy-Side Technology/News
Electra Adds Pending Trade Data to Settlements Solution
New York-based Electra Information Systems has upgraded its FailSafe settlements solution to include an option to view, manipulate and report on pending trade data in addition to the failed trades.
Addenda Capital Chooses Coric for Reporting
Canadian asset manager Addenda Capital has selected Coric Client Communications from Equipos to automate the firm's client reporting process.
Bonaire's SaaS Offering Live on Broadridge's Hosted Environment
Bonaire, a Broadridge Financial Solutions company, has migrated its Software as a Services (SaaS) solution to Broadridge's hosting environment.
Euroclear Sweden Connects to FundSettle for International Order Routing
Swedish central securities depository (CSD) Euroclear Sweden has announced it is now connected to FundSettle, Euroclear Bank’s automated processing platform for cross-border and domestic funds.
Liquidnet Acquires Vega-Chi Bond-Trading Platform
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has announced it will enter the fixed-income market after its acquisition of UK bond-trading platform Vega-Chi.
Ashmore Group Live With Vermilion Reporting Suite
Ashmore Group, the London-based traditional asset manager, has implemented the Vermilion Reporting Suite to provide its clients with an automated, global reporting solution.
Markit Debuts Securities Finance Data Platform
Markit has announced the launch of a new platform geared towards data provision for securities lending.
Scoban Private Bank to Launch with Lombard Risk Reporting
The Edinburgh-based private bank, set to begin taking clients this summer under management including Ray Entwhistle and other former Adams & Co. executives, has selected Lombard Risk's Reporter.
BCEE Adds Charles River IMS
Luxembourg-based BCEE Asset Management (BCEE-AM) has gone live on the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS), the vendor has announced.
Thomson Reuters Launches Block Trading Venue
Built on the Autex network, Thomson's new liquidity pool will be open to buy and sell-side traders.
AQX Selects BNP Paribas for Settlement
AQX Securities has selected BNP Paribas Securities Services as its central settlement partner for all trades, both firms announced today.
StatPro Revolution Adds Commitment Approach for UCITS, AIFMD Compliance
StatPro Group has announced it has added ‘commitment approach’ to its Revolution portfolio analytics and reporting tool for compliance with Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities (UCITS) and Alternative Investment Fund…
Charles River to Enter the IBOR Fray
Later this year Charles River is set to unveil a module that will allow its buy-side clients to manage their investment book of record (IBOR) activities. The IBOR functionality will be deployed along with version 9.2 of the Charles River Investment…
Investment Consultancy Citisoft Launches Know-Your-Outsourcer Tool
Investment management consulting firm Citisoft has launched a service, KYO-40, to help asset managers keep oversight of their outsource service.
Ladd Replaces Spanbroek to Lead Prop-Trading Body
The European Principal Traders Association (Epta), a subsidiary of the Futures Industry Association (FIA), announced today that Johannah Ladd has taken on the role of secretary general at the lobby group.
Thomson Reuters, Cambridge Associates Aggregate Private Fund Benchmarks
The financial information provider and global investment firm have collaborated on a jointly-developed online platform to provide benchmark pricing on a range of alternative funds.
MarketPrizm Partners with Object Trading on DMA
MarketPrizm, a London-based provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, will offer Object Trading’s managed FrontRunner direct market access (DMA) on its data-enabled platform, allowing firms to reduce the resource constraints of market…
Lombard Risk and Broadridge Strike Collateral Management Alliance
Lombard Risk, the London-headquartered provider of collateral management, regulatory compliance, and reporting technology, and Lake Success, NY-based Broadridge Financial Solutions, have formed an alliance that will address capital markets firms’…
TT Unveils Cloud-based Trading Platform, Will Sunset X_Trader
Trading Technologies International (TT) today unveiled Nextrader, its new trading platform.
CBOE to Invest in Tradelegs
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) says it will stake the analytics and decision-support software provider to institutional investors.
EU Parliament Adopts Omnibus II, Finalizes Solvency II
The introduction of the Solvency II regulatory regime inches closer after the European Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt Omnibus II, a directive that completes and finalizes the common prudential framework for insurance regulation and supervision in…
RTS Releases New Version of RTD Tango Trader
Trading technology vendor RealTime Systems Group (RTS) has released a new version of its click and algorithmic trading front-end, RTD Tango Trader 2.0, including a chart analytics package and algo development services.
Charity-Run HFT Shop Picks IPC for Connectivity
Vivienne Court, a high-frequency arbitrage firm based in Sydney, has selected the Financial Markets Network from New York-based IPC to cover its voice and electronic trading network connectivity requirements.
OptionsCity Updates its Futures and Options Trading Platform
OptionsCity Software, a Chicago-based provider of futures and options trading solutions, has released version 5.0 of its flagship trading and market-making platform, Metro, designed to better manage risk.