SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial services software, has named the leadership team for its recently acquired Advent Software business unit. At the same time, investment management systems and services vendor SimCorp has hired Martin Engdal, a former market strategist and senior director of business development, EMEA, for Advent. The new management structure for Advent… Read More >>
SS&C: ‘Sunsetting products upsets your client base’
Editor’s note: Earlier this month, SS&C Technologies, which offers financial services firms software and software-enabled services, completed its $2.63 billion acquisition of Advent Software, a vendor of software and services for investment management firms. Advent has more than 4,300 customers including asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, family offices and wealth management advisory… Read More >>
Q&A with Advent and SS&C: ‘It’s amazing how money talks’
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of stories about SS&C Technologies and its acquisition of Advent Software. In mid-June, the U.S. Department of Justice cleared SS&C Technologies Holdings’s pending $2.7 billion cash acquisition of Advent Software, which was announced in February. When asked if this action means that the acquisition was going to… Read More >>
Will T+2 Make the Most Progress in 2015?
FTF News gathered forecasts from three vendors — Advent Software, DataArt and FSMLabs — to get their Ops predictions for 2015. This piece is part of a series in January exploring what key industry participants think will be the top Ops issues this year. Advent Software: T+2 to Progress the Most in 2015 Investment management… Read More >>
G2 FinTech Teams with Advent to Target CBR
G2 FinTech, provider of the TaxGopher tax analysis and compliance software, and Advent Software, maker of Geneva portfolio management system, are joining forces to help prime brokers comply with Phase 3 of the cost-basis reporting (CBR) tax requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. New CBR rules have been taking effect over the past two years… Read More >>
Is the Cloud Causing Layoffs in the Back Office?
More buy-side firms than you think are moving IT infrastructures and operations to the cloud and then laying off back-office staffs. So says Todd Gottula, executive vice president and chief technology officer for Advent Software. Tighter margins are compelling firms to find efficient ways to “manage disparate systems” and the cloud option is getting popular,… Read More >>
SWIFT, Princeton Financial, NYSE Euronext, Advent Software
SWIFT Fills Top Marketing Post Financial messaging services cooperative SWIFT has named Javier Pérez-Tasso as the replacement for its former head of marketing, Gottfried Leibbrandt, who moved up to the post of CEO earlier this month. Pérez-Tasso will take on the role of Marketing Executive and will report to Leibbrandt. Pérez-Tasso will be responsible for… Read More >>
