Solutions
Watson Wheatley, a specialist in securities reconciliation, has added four new alternative asset management clients to its roster in the last month.
Interfaces with five new systems have also been added to the iRecs platform; Enfusion, Orchestrade, Eze Tradar, Calypso and Bloomberg AIM. The iRecs3 reconciliation solution has been further enhanced with an interactive dashboard, allowing users greater control over relevant operational data points.
Tom Wheatley (pictured), COO at Watson Wheatley Financial Systems, says: “We are delighted to have signed so many new clients recently, especially since they have all come from recommendations and introductions by existing users.”
AcadiaSoft Inc, a provider of margin automation solutions for counterparties engaged in collateral management worldwide, has launched AcadiaSoft Expert Services, a suite of consultative offerings designed to support firms as they comply with new regulations.
AcadiaSoft’s ISDA SIMM Approval Guidance, a service providing firms a streamlined, expert-driven process to help obtain permission from regulators to use the ISDA SIMM for Initial Margin (IM) calculations, launches today as the first available offering within Expert Services.
“AcadiaSoft has extensive experience in risk, collateral and change management and its partners are expert in risk modelling, valuation, back testing and validation,” says Chris
London based investment manager Helford Capital Partners has launched a new AIFM fund manager hosting platform aimed at investment professionals looking to launch their own fund under the Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (AIFMD).
The platform offers prospective managers a fast and highly cost effective ‘turnkey’ solution to starting their own fund. Helford also provides an on-going & full hands-on support service including regulatory hosting and oversight, plus full marketing and investor relations management.
Helford Capital Partners announced in a statement today that the new Manager Platform will fill the niche that currently exists between fund platforms (most of
Pzena lnvestment Management has expanded its usage of Indata’s Intelligent Portfolio Management software suite by upgrading to Epic Data API, a new solution launched in May 2017.
Pzena Investment Management is a global investment management firm based in New York with offices in London and Melbourne. A publicly held firm listed on the NYSE, Pzena has more than USD33 Billion in AUM.
Pzena, an Indata OMS and front-to-back office software client since 2001, had been looking for ways to better integrate, view and report on both internal and external data sources for use in marketing, reporting and investor presentations. A significant
Neptune, the Fixed Income network for real-time “axe” indications, has added Rabobank (Rabo) and TD Securities (TD) to its network and board. Rabo and TD become the 23rd and 24th participating banks on the network.
The Neptune network provides a venue for investors to consume the highest quality bond axes/inventory data from their most trusted Bank counterparts. This enables institutional investors to be more effective and targeted when looking to execute large size orders in products such as corporate and emerging market bonds.
Twenty-one bond dealers are already live on the network, providing axe information in real-time on over 30,000
Intercontinental Exchange is planning to launch a new London Silver Daily Futures contract on 5 September, 2017, pending regulatory review. The contract offers physical delivery of unallocated silver held in a London Precious Metals Clearing Limited vault.
The launch of the Silver Daily futures contract coincides with the recent news that ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) has been chosen as the new administrator for the LBMA Silver Price Auction, which is expected to commence in autumn 2017. The Daily Futures contract will enable participants in the LBMA Silver Price Auction to exchange their auction positions for cleared futures contracts held with
Compliance and data analytics firm SteelEye has joined London Stock Exchange’s UnaVista Partner Programme with the aim of providing a cohesive, end-to-end technology-based solution to help firms meet their regulatory obligations under MiFID II and other key regulatory directives.
UnaVista is a regulatory reporting and data integrity platform that offers a range of business services designed to help firms optimise efficiency and minimise operational and regulatory risk across all asset classes. With 50,000 established platform users, it processes in excess of five billion transactions annually. SteelEye and UnaVista’s combined expertise and services will provide firms with a comprehensive, market-leading, technology-based solution
StatPro Group, an AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has signed a three-year contract extension with FundBPO for StatPro Revolution, including a portfolio usage increase and an extension of consulting.
FundBPO Pty Ltd (FundBPO), one of Australia’s leading independent fund administrators, provides fund administration services to more than 630 managed funds, administering more than AUD114 billion of funds globally.
As FundBPO is experiencing growth in demand for its middle office services, it is looking for a solution to meet its growing performance measurement and risk analytics needs. With
By George Ralph, RFA – Outsourcing IT is a viable option for many private equity firms who are looking for high quality, enterprise grade technology without the headache of managing it in house.
The last Deloitte global outsourcing survey in 2016 indicated that the market for outsourced services would almost certainly continue, but outsourced service providers would need to change and adapt to meet the needs of customers, who expect innovation, and want to see their businesses enhanced and improved by service providers.
Increased regulations and changes to compliance legislation have not dented the trend for outsourcing, as ISG report in
In Part 1 of our hybrid cloud whitepaper excerpt, we reviewed the primary benefits to public, private & hybrid cloud infrastructures, and reviewed a number of considerations including service & support, availability and uptime, and proximity. In Part 2 below, we dive into additional factors to contemplate, specifically: security, application hosting and cost.
To download the full whitepaper, Is Hybrid Cloud Right For Your Firm?, click here.
Security
While your public cloud provider may provide world-class security for its services, your company is still on the hook for certifying all aspects of information security. For compliance-driven businesses, there
