Social media is joining traditional financial news media as a key source of information used by institutional investors in their investment processes, according to a new study from Greenwich Associates. The study found that 80 per cent of institutional investors
BI-SAM has launched BI-SAM GO, a flexible solution providing asset managers with daily and transactional performance and attribution analytics, plus high-quality cleansed and validated data, via a flexible, secure web-based platform. The solution enables asset managers to streamline the calculation,
Cordium, a provider of compliance consulting, accounting, tax and software to the financial services industry, has launched Pilot, its latest compliance software solution. Pilot, a first of its kind cloud-based corporate workflow management tool, is designed to manage complex compliance
Pacific Fund Systems (PFS) has released a new version of its web portal, PFS-CONNECT, which now enables existing investors, their agents and employees to place fund transaction orders online. The online order types supported are subscriptions, redemptions and switch
Bondcube, the fixed Income trading platform, is now live in Europe and the US, offering full match, negotiation and trading functionality for all to all bond trading. Bondcube takes indications of interest (IOIs) from both buy-side and sell-side participants. Buy-side
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds, is to host a three-part webinar series in April focused on cloud computing for investment management firms. The series, Cloud Perspectives: How to Impress Investors, Security
E*TRADE Financial Corporation is to launch an app for the Apple Watch on 24 April, 2015. The app will deliver essential market data in an engaging and simple format to help investors and traders keep a watchful eye on the
Eze Software Group, a premier provider of global investment technology, has made several enhancements to its commission management offering. Eze Software released a new web-based tool, Broker Review, which helps buy-side firms efficiently evaluate their brokers. Broker Review redesigns and
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of alternative asset management solutions, has made IVP Treasury 3.5 available on the cloud, allowing hedge fund managers to track, control and optimise their financing needs across counterparties including Prime Brokers and Custodian banks. “Hedge funds are
Risk management solution provider Portfolio Science has extended the reach of its RiskAPI distributed risk engine through an agreement to integrate the product into FixQ, an enterprise investment management system from specialist software provider PortfolioShop. RiskAPI uses an application programming
