Hedge fund managers are continually reviewing their relationships with fund administrators, fund custodians, prime brokers, fund auditors, fund marketers and law firms to ensure that they are getting the services they need. A quarter of all hedge fund managers surveyed
Banks are battling the rising cost of running their bond businesses by increasingly favouring a riskless-principal or order-driving trading model that leaves the responsibility to determine the best price for a bond increasingly shifting to pre-trade and real-time price modelling,
By Joseph Bartolotta (pictured) – How many vehicles are on the road today with a “Schedule Service” message displayed on the instrument panel? And how many drivers will ignore it for yet another day? Why do we ignore those messages? Lots
Research unbundling is creating a whole new marketplace model for research procurement and consumption. One of the biggest changes that asset managers face under MiFID II will be the need to unbundle research payments from execution commissions and provide evidence
Northern Trust, one of the world’s largest fund administrators, is to implement the Settlement Messaging Service of GlobalCollateral, a joint venture of Euroclear and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). The adoption of the service will streamline Northern Trust’s margin
MiFID II aims to increase the accountability and transparency of the financial services industry and represents the latest in a long line of regulatory developments since the '08 global financial crash. Both buy-side and sell-side MiFID regulated firms are busy
Colt Technologies is a private telecoms company owned by Fidelity. It delivers secure, on-demand services designed to meet the stringent requirements and speed of the financial markets. Among the more than 400 capital markets firms it supports worldwide includes 18
Dimensional Fund Advisors, a Texas based global asset manager with USD497 billion in assets under management, is extending its use of SimCorp Coric to enhance client reporting capabilities. This follows the firm having gone into successful production with SimCorp Coric
12th Street Asset Management has selected Archer, a technology and services provider for the investment management industry, to support the firm's growth across all channels, including separately managed accounts, a limited partnership and model delivery clients. Archer will provide technology
BCP Asset Management and Apex Fund Services have signed a partnership agreement for fund administration services. As part of the recent acquisition of four High Street buildings in a prime Dublin 2 location by BCP and Meyer Bergman, BCP has
