Solutions
CloudAlpha Capital Management, a start-up hedge fund, has chosen Linedata’s flagship hedge fund solution, Global Hedge, as its portfolio management technology solution.
Global Hedge is designed to allow clients to have total control of their portfolios and transactions, from the front office straight through to the back office.
CloudAlpha will focus on the US Technology markets in a long/short capacity. Set up last year, CloudAlpha is using Linedata Global Hedge Portfolio Management System in a fully hosted environment, which has enabled the start up to launch quickly and avoid any unnecessary technology and resource overhead costs.
Benny Ho, Operations Director
The Depository Trust & Clearing (DTCC) is linking its front-end collateral management system Omgeo ProtoColl with GlobalCollateral’s Margin Transit Utility (MTU), a straight through processing solution for the settlement of margin obligations.
With this integration, Omgeo ProtoColl clients will gain a view of all transactions processed in the MTU from their existing ProtoColl user interface, streamlining margin call activities and enabling better monitoring of the collateral management process from a single interface.
Omgeo ProtoColl brings efficiency to the collateral management lifecycle by leveraging a rules-based workflow approach, allowing for exception-based processing on reconciliation, counterparty exposure, collateral optimisation, auto-fulfilment of
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 use social media as part of their regular work flow, and approximately 30 per cent of these investors say information obtained through social media has directly influenced an investment recommendation or decision.
In a report released today entitled, Institutional Investing in the Digital Age: How Social Media Informs and Shapes the Investing Process, Greenwich Associates presents the results of its
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, analysis and distribution of performance results – resulting in improved investment strategies, better client engagement and increased operational efficiencies. BI-SAM GO includes transactional performance and attribution delivered in an easy-to-use interface. Client and market data is cleansed and validated to ensure accurate performance analytics.
“Performance analytics are critical inputs to investment strategies – with portfolio managers, clients and everyone
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 and operational tasks from start to finish. Pilot was created to help compliance professionals manage their workload and keep track of the ever-changing and convoluted global regulatory environment existing today.
Pilot is centred around an interactive compliance calendar that allows firms to build and organize their day-to-day compliance and monitoring tasks into a scalable, dynamic environment where they
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 transactions.
James Eldershaw, Director at PFS, says: “This new online fund order placement capability significantly enhances the already extensive functionality available to PFS-PAXUS users who also use our web portal. The ability for investors to be able to place orders online and for fund managers to approve these orders online leverages the entire concept of automation even further.”
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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 to buy-side match anonymously and cross through an intermediary. Buy-side to sell-side trade on a fully disclosed identity basis. All participants can bulk upload their indications of interest, where they indicate a security, direction and minimum and maximum trading size, without the need for a specific price or spread. These IOIs remain anonymous and invisible on the platform, either on
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 Pros & CXOs, will feature expert speakers across three events and discuss the impact of cloud services on hedge funds and investment firms in today’s changing environment.
The webinar comes at a time when the company is seeing increased adoption of private cloud services but also widespread inquiries from investors and business executives regarding the benefits and considerations of cloud
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 markets and their portfolios.
Specific features include:
• Visual snapshots of market indices such as Dow, NASDAQ and S&P, as well as core metrics such as volume and performance.
• Easy-to-glance summary of accounts, portfolios and watch lists, including positions and daily gains or losses.
• Customisable notifications alerting users when relevant market, account or position-related actions happen, such as
GH Financials (GHF), a clearing firm for exchange-traded derivatives, has been approved for Trading Participation of ASX 24, and as a fully remote Clearing Participant of ASX Clear (Futures).
Steve Martin, GH Financials COO, says: "GH Financials is delighted to join the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) as a Trading and Clearing Participant and we are honoured to be selected as the first clearing participant based outside of Australia. Our European and US based clients can now access one of the world’s premier derivative exchanges through a local counterparty that benefits from direct participation. GHF will be able to offer significant
