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GlobeOp Expands Dublin Office
GlobeOp Financial Services is relocating and expanding its current Dublin office to serve increased demand from funds based in or extending into Europe. Vernon Barback, GlobeOp president and chief operating officer said: “We see continued European market growth in areas where we offer specialist expertise and can leverage our global technology platform – such as…
Information Mosaic’s Hartlage Discusses its BI Analytics and Client Portal Offerings
Information Mosaic has been gradually adding to its arsenal of post-trade automation solutions, the latest of which is its IMConnecting offering, which aims to provide users with a customisable client portal via which to view custody related, proxy voting and corporate actions data. Ken Hartlage, head of product management and marketing for the vendor, explains…
Former JP Morgan Head of Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling Joins Quantifi
Quantifi, a leading provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced the appointment of Dr. Dmitry Pugachevsky as Research Director. Dr. Pugachevsky will be responsible for managing Quantifi’s global research efforts. Rohan Douglas, CEO, Quantifi, said, “Dmitry has long been a leading figure in the industry and comes…
Vanlint Elaborates on GoldenSource’s ASX Implementation, EDM Trends in Asia
Last month, EDM platform provider GoldenSource announced that it had won a deal to provide the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) with a new corporate data management platform. Neill Vanlint, managing director of EMEA and APAC client operations for the vendor, explains that the GoldenSource EDM platform was selected after a rigorous two month long proof…
Industry Funds Management Selects SunGard’s Investran and VPM
Industry Funds Management (IFM), a leading global investment manager has selected SunGard’s Investran and VPM solutions to help streamline and enhance back-office accounting across all of its investment products and portfolios. IFM manages over A$30 billion across four asset classes: infrastructure, private equity, debt investments and listed equity portfolios. SunGard’s Investran, an award winning application…
Markit Launches Commission Management Platform
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced the launch of Markit Commission Manager. The service helps buy-side firms manage and allocate commission credits efficiently while addressing the concerns associated with maintaining such credits with a single institution. Markit is introducing this new service as increasing numbers of buy-side firms demand virtual aggregation…
SEI Survey: Private Equity Managers Struggling to Keep Up with Increasing Investor Transparency Demands
While nearly everyone in the private equity space agrees that there has been an increased focus on portfolio transparency and client reporting over the past few years, investors remain dissatisfied with the information they receive from managers, according to a global survey report released today by SEI in collaboration with Greenwich Associates. Less than half…
Misys Focuses on Enterprise Risk, Collateral Management and Central Clearing Support, Says Dewnarain
Misys is focusing on a number of initiatives in several key areas including providing support for central clearing in the OTC markets, enterprise risk management (ERM) and cross asset collateral management, according to Denny Dewnarain, deputy European managing director of Treasury and Capital Markets for the vendor. Following its acquisition of Sophis earlier this year,…
Surge of Regulations Prompt Fund and Asset Managers to Leverage Technology
With increasing demands for operational transparency, improving risk management and staying abreast of regulatory developments, the technology used to manage these functions has become a key focus for fund and asset managers. Managers are recognising the necessity to update or employ new management systems to increase efficiency of their operations and compete for client assets….
SmartStream’s Jones Discusses the Launch of its New On Demand Corporate Actions Solution
SmartStream has launched a new on demand version of its corporate actions processing solution, TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand , in line with its push to provide software as a service (SaaS) versions of its offerings. Alan Jones, senior product manager at the vendor, explains that the solution has seen interest from mid-size…