(State Street Alpha is a front-to-back office asset servicing platform that the global custodian bank is offering to investment managers, hedge funds, asset owners, and insurers. The front- and middle-office components of Alpha are from the Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS) platform, a result of State Street Corp.’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Charles River… Read More >>
Buy Side Faces Costly Ops Changes: SimCorp CEO
(Klaus Holse, CEO for SimCorp, is reaching out to the buy side via an open letter about front-to-back integration issues for investment management technology. His online letter notes that integration issues are caused in part by the “rapid rise of alternatives, which presents new costs and challenges.” This is helping buy-side firms rethink multi-asset, end-to-end… Read More >>
Disruptors to Empower the Buy Side: CRD CEO
John Plansky, the new CEO of vendor Charles River Development (CRD), says that a convergence of disruptors is driving industry change and is shifting power from the sell side to the buy side — one of the related subjects he will be focus on during his keynote address at the 25th Annual Securities Operations Summit… Read More >>
State Street to Slash 1,500 Positions in 2019
Global custody-banking giant State Street Corp. is trimming its workforce, including 1,500 positions at “high-cost” locations and cuts from senior management staff in an effort to adjust its expenses to highly competitive market conditions. The staffing cuts will be a key part of “a new expense program to accelerate efforts to become a higher-performing organization… Read More >>
CRD Partners with AcadiaSoft & Expands Liquidnet Alliance
Charles River Development (CRD) will be working with AcadiaSoft via a new business alliance and expanding its partnership with Liquidnet — its first major industry moves since its acquisition last year by custodian giant State Street Corp. for $2.6 billion. When CRD was acquired in October 2018, the combined companies announced that they would build… Read More >>
Norwegian Firm Saves $1.1M by Consolidating Systems
A major Norwegian securities firm, Storebrand Asset Management, has replaced incumbent systems with those of SimCorp for a front-to-back-office consolidation that has yielded $1.1 million in savings, confirm vendor and Storebrand officials. In fact, Storebrand officials report that it is Norway’s largest private asset manager with €71 billion ($81.4 million) in assets under management (AUM),… Read More >>
CRD & Broadridge Partner to Bolster SWIFT Links
CRD’s IMS to Get New Broadridge Support Charles River Development (CRD) and Broadridge Financial Solutions are formalizing a business alliance to facilitate broader integration with the SWIFT financial messaging network for the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS), officials say. The partnership is in response to the industry’s move, sanctioned by the SEC,… Read More >>
South African Firm to Use Charles River’s IMS
Allan Gray Consolidates Systems via Charles River IMS Allan Gray, a privately owned South African investment manager, has adopted vendor Charles River Development’s (CRD) cloud-based investment management solution, or IMS. Portfolio managers, traders and compliance teams will use the CRD’s IMS to manage assets across such products as segregated mandates and unitized funds, Allan Gray… Read More >>
State Street to Buy CRD for $2.6 Billion
Custodian giant State Street Corp. is moving to acquire investment software vendor Charles River Development (CRD) for $2.6 billion and plans to combine CRD’s front- and middle-office software as a service (SaaS) offerings with State Street’s technology to create a more comprehensive transaction processing system, tailored to new buy-side demands. The $2.6 billion acquisition will… Read More >>
Broadridge Acquires Summit Financial Disclosure
Broadridge, Summit to Integrate Offerings Broadridge Financial Solutions recently announced that it has acquired Summit Financial Disclosure, a financial document management solutions provider in an effort to provide an end-to-end service. The acquisition will lead to the integration of Summit’s document composition and regulatory filing services with Broadridge’s proxy voting and shareholder communications services, officials… Read More >>
