Front-office financial technology vendors are moving quickly to expand their reach into the middle and back office while traditional portfolio accounting systems providers are moving upstream into the middle office in attempts to provide a fuller suite of asset management operational services, according to a new report from market research firm Celent, a division of… Read More >>
Linedata Updates Admin Edge Platform
Linedata, a provider of solutions for the investment management and credit industries, reports “significant updates” to Admin Edge, its fund administrator platform, officials say. The updates are in three key areas, the New York City-based vendor says. “Firstly, there is improved integration and automation of data flows between the fund accounting and transfer agency areas,”… Read More >>
Temenos Jolts Fund Administration Market
Temenos Group, maker of the T24 core banking solution, is moving to aggressively take advantage of the “fast-growing fund administration market” via the $248.7 million (€235 million) acquisition of fund administration software vendor Multifonds, which has been in the market since 1995 and has more than 30 of “the world’s largest financial institutions” on its… Read More >>
SS&C GlobeOp Helps Funds Meet AIFMD Deadline
January 2015 marked not only the beginning of a new year, but the beginning of a new regulatory reporting regimen for fund managers — at least for those active in Europe. The January 31 deadline for filing of the Alternative Investment Fund Manager’s Directive (AIFMD) Annex IV reporting requirement was most fund managers’ first brush… Read More >>
HITE Asset Management Sidesteps Vendor Hassles
When James Jampel founded HITE Asset Management in 2004 with $1 million in start-up capital, tinkering with back-office systems and processes wasn’t exactly at the top of his to-do list. Jampel and the employees who later joined HITE wanted to focus on one thing: investing. It’s fitting, then, that a decade later HITE has become… Read More >>