RFPConnect meets Irina Kozachok and Danil Baburin, who introduce company’s best practices in Russian DMA market and unveil a new pre-trade check solution recently launched by ARQA Technologies.
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Butterfield Fulcrum has upgraded to Advent’s Geneva® 8.5, a major new release of Geneva®, Advent’s award-winning global portfolio management and fund accounting solution...
It is evident that prime brokers, investment banks, fund administrators, asset managers, exchanges outsource their operational processes into private platforms to pursuit strategic goals. Financial institutions are able to avoid significant investments in building, developing and maintaining their own infrastructures.
But, are there any extra reasons that lay far beyond only cost savings, forcing financial services providers to choose private cloud platforms? And whether it is worth for them to bet on private clouds?
In this article we investigate the core questions related to private platforms and the benefits they bring to financial institutions.
The expert, Nigel Kneafsey, CEO of Options IT, LLC shares his experience.
Alan Stephenson-Brown, Director of Europe,
speaks with RFPConnect about personal goals in payment industry and introduces a newly launched Phoenix PaySecure Solution, designed to aid merchants in overcoming the complexity of implementing card industry PCI-DSS security standards.
Nowadays we are witnessing a real mobility revolution among the working population all over the world. According to IDC’s mobility workforce forecast the worldwide mobile worker population will increase from just over 1 billion in 2010 to more than 1.3 billion by 2015. That will account more than one third of the whole global workforce.
New Version Control makes it easier to learn how a new cost-effective, cloud–based tool, ETAdirect helps businesses to manage mobile workforce more capably. The product is introduced by Richard Alden, European President of TOA Technologies.
The demand from investors for transparency and accountability from their fund managers has never been greater. And as they seek the assurance of independent and unbiased fund valuation, investors have extended their scrutiny to service providers, most notably fund administrators.
As a recent Ernst & Young report shows, there remains a significant opinion gap between investment managers and investors when it comes to valuation. While more than half the investors E&Y surveyed believe that funds should outsource valuation to a third-party administrator, conversely, 71% of investment managers felt that outsourcing valuation actually increases risk. Only one in four of these investment managers believe that fund administrators can conduct valuations effectively.
So how can the industry fill this gap with the right valuation services?
Chris Mulhern, COO and President of Butterfield Fulcrum speaks with RFPConnect about the full suite of Butterfield Fulcrum administration solutions for front, middle and back office operations.
Over the last few years, the number of credit card frauds has increased dramatically. In just the UK alone, statistics show that around £1.2m is lost though card fraud every day. This equates to one theft every nine seconds with one in three people a victim. It is part of a larger overall fraud landscape with the UK’s National Fraud Authority (NFA) announcing, this month, that the total cost of fraud to the UK economy is in the region of £73 billion a year.
RFPConnect interviews Mike Alford, CEO at Alaric International, who introduces an intelligent PA DSS certified, Fractals card fraud detection and prevention solution.
This paper gives an overview of the imminent regulations pertaining to becoming Basel III compliant, particularly those centered on reporting.
It aims to provide a current snapshot of how global adoption is progressing to date.
It will be especially relevant to those tasked with compliance, risk and regulatory reporting within banks.
The total assets under management of all Sovereign Wealth Funds globally is today estimated at around USD $4.6 trillion.
While most of them are active in the fixed income and equity space which they manage internally and externally through specialized portfolio managers, going forward we
will see increasing interest for alternative investments from these players.
Their need for diversification, increased yield in the current low interest rate environment, increasing sophistication, together with the fact that they are uniquely placed to deploy long term capital, makes them well placed to continue and increase their investment programs in infrastructure, private equity, hedge funds and real estate.
Rising Sun is the latest addition to Fidessa’s library of white papers discussing the impact of global trends on local markets. It examines the extent to which Asian markets are embracing liquidity fragmentation, exchange consolidation and high-frequency trading (HFT), before looking at how far the domestic idiosyncrasies that made Japan a distinct and fiercely independent trading environment can accommodate these global influences.
About a year ago ARQA Technologies started to introduce the broad possibilities of pre-trade checks developed within its trading platform QUIK to clients abroad. Numerous Russian and CIS clients as well as Russian subsidiaries of international houses have been using the tools of risk control developed for the QUIK platform for quite some time now.
MIS departments of banks invest substantial effort in complying with regulatory reporting requirements. This effort is a result of challenges faced by the MIS teams at all levels of reports generation process. This paper discusses the key challenges faced by MIS teams in meeting the regulatory reporting needs and examines the case for an Automated Data Flow from the bank’s source systems to the regulatory bodies.
One of the fundamental decisions that every trading algorithm needs to make as it feeds child orders into the market is where to route them. In a previous research note Pragma reported some empirical results demonstrating that, generally, the market has a strong preference for routing aggressive orders to the cheapest venue that displays the best price. In this note, Pragma demonstrates how this market structure can be exploited by a clever algorithm to obtain an all-in performance improvement when posting limit orders by effectively “hopping the queue.”
Morningstar European fund flow data for January shows a positive start to 2012 for the European fund industry, with investors adding Euro 13 billion in new assets to long-term European-domiciled funds in January 2012.
Dan Lefkovitz from Morningstar’s European research team comments:
“Buoyant markets have brought investors back into funds. Renewed appetite for risk and a sharp hunger for yield are evident. But the case of Templeton Global Bond is a sign that investors too often have a habit of buying high and selling low. Morningstar’s Investor Returns calculation shows that many of the fund’s investors have not captured its stated total return.”
Welcome to the first issue of New Managers, Opalesque’s monthly monitor of emerging managers. Apparently, the number of hedge fund launches in 2011 (including maiden
funds) might be the highest, within a calendar year, since 2007 when nearly 1,200 funds were launched. And
many expect more new entrants in the industry coming from larger fund houses and banks. However, with less trading opportunities in a crowded environment, more
involved regulators and investors no longer content with opacity, the environment requires a little more effort to navigate. Now is a great time to put the spotlight on the trials, tribulations and opportunities that emerging managers are facing; as information is key for better navigation.
This edition of Insights examines the small household challenge from the firm’s perspective. In the summer of 2010, we interviewed executives from seven of our client firms to obtain a North American view on how firms are addressing this critical business issue.
With this Spring 2010 Edition of the Phone System Comparison Chart quickly see differences between brands like Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, ShoreTel, 8x8, Panasonic, etc and compare over 94 phone systems by 52 brands for small to big business.
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