Bloomberg Works With JPMorgan Securities Services Data integration and “frictionless” workflows are the main goals of a new collaboration between JPMorgan’s Securities Services and Bloomberg. The news and market data vendor is working with the services provider business of JPMorgan to offer buy-side firms a new integration that will allow them to work from the… Read More >>
ATS Firm Broadens Surveillance via Enterprise-Wide Platform
A broker-dealer/alternative trading system, PDQ ATS, has deployed the Validus run-time enterprise risk and compliance platform from Eventus Systems in order to get a broader view of risk exposure, say officials at the firm and the vendor. From its headquarters in Glenview, Ill., PDQ ATS provides liquidity aggregation for market participants via an auction process,… Read More >>
NICE Actimize System Offers Cross-Asset Surveillance
Risk and compliance vendor NICE Actimize has launched a “compliance-as-a-service” cloud-based offering that promises to provide surveillance capabilities across multiple asset classes. The new Actimize Cross-Asset Cloud Markets Surveillance solution will also offer case management capabilities to help financial services firms formulate their enterprise-wide scans for risk, vendor officials say. “Cross asset is extremely important… Read More >>
Numerix: ‘We see the Melding of the Front, Middle and Back Offices’
(Editor’s note: Steven O’Hanlon, the CEO and president of pricing and risk analytics vendor Numerix, is the 2015 FinTech Person of the Year, selected by his peers as part of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. This is an excerpt from the profile that will be featured in the online magazine about the award winners… Read More >>
Lombard Risk Spotlights Colline Wins
London, England-based Lombard Risk Management, a provider of integrated collateral management, regulatory compliance and reporting solutions for the financial services industry, reports that its collateral management, clearing, inventory management and optimisation solution — called Colline — has tallied a “significant number of sales and ‘go-lives’ in the past few months.” Specifically, Lombard Risk notes that… Read More >>
SmartStream Hires from MSCI
SmartStream Technologies, the financial transaction lifecycle management specialist, reports that Daniel Pedersen has been named to head sales and business development in Europe. He will report to SmartStream CEO Philippe Chambadal. Prior to joining SmartStream, Pedersen, a veteran with more than 20 years in financial services, worked for four years at RiskMetrics, “where he held… Read More >>
Oulhadj Upped to COO of RJO
Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), which describes itself as the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the U.S., reports that Jamal Oulhadj, its senior managing director and chief risk officer (CRO), has been promoted to chief operating officer (COO) of RJO Holdings Corp., the firm’s holding company. Oulhadj, 50, has… Read More >>
MSCI Launches Factor-Based Analytics Solution
Investment decision systems vendor MSCI has launched a new solution, MSCI Barra Peer Analytics, aimed at providing factor-based analysis of hedge funds, officials say. The new offering delivers insight into the investment strategies and performance of 6,500 of the largest US mutual funds over five years. “Factor investing is gaining increasing attention with a record… Read More >>
Misys Partners with Targit
Central European financial consultancy Targit GmBH has joined financial software vendor Misys’ InFusion Partner Program, officials say. In a move that should serve as a capstone to “consulting, systems integration and project management support,” Targit has worked with Misys to provide clients in the Germany-Austria-Switzerland region for several years now, officials say. Under the new… Read More >>
New Chief Revenue Officer for Compliance Science
Governance, risk management and compliance vendor Compliance Science has added a new chief revenue officer (CRO) and moved to a bigger office, following “the rapid expansion of Compliance Science’s market share … resulting from insider trading concerns continuing to proliferate” across the industry, a spokesperson says in an email. In his new role as CRO… Read More >>
