Ancoa’s Platform Relies Upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) Convergex, an agency global brokerage, is using the market surveillance platform from vendor Ancoa to monitor trading activity across its domestic U.S. and international cash equities and options brokerage businesses to bolster compliance with U.S. and international market abuse regulations. The cloud-based deployment uses Amazon Web Services (AWS),… Read More >>
Pension Advisory Firm Moving to Web-based Risk Platform
Broadstone, a London-based pensions, actuarial and investment services advisory firm to small and medium-sized sponsors and trustees, is the latest organization to sign up to the web-based RiskFirst PFaroe platform to get a more holistic view of risk management. PFaroe enables defined benefit (DB) pension plans direct access to a broad range of analytics that… Read More >>
SEI to Use RiskFirst IT Tools
Asset manager SEI has appointed financial technology vendor RiskFirst as a “key technology provider for its U.K. fiduciary management business,” according to a RiskFirst statement. The arrangement will see the two companies work together to combine RiskFirst’s pension technology expertise with SEI’s investment principle and capabilities, officials say. “Investment in software and technology is at… Read More >>
Cambridge Associates Signs On for New Risk Analytics
Cambridge Associates, a private-client and institutional investment advisor, reports an arrangement with RiskFirst (formerly PensionsFirst), a provider of risk analytics and reporting to the defined benefit pensions market, that will add PFaroe, RiskFirst’s web-based risk analytics platform, to Cambridge’s capabilities. “PFaroe allows on-demand stress testing of multiple scenarios to assist plan sponsors in reviewing complex… Read More >>
RiskFirst Lands U.S. Firm for PFaroe
Rocaton Investment Advisors has become the first investment consultancy in the U.S. to adopt RiskFirst’s web-based, risk analytics platform PFaroe, according to a company statement. PFaroe is the core product of RiskFirst, a risk analytics provider based in the U.K., which recently began expanding into the U.S. with its partner Winklevoss Technologies. PFaroe is a… Read More >>
Xafinity, NY Life Take RiskFirst’s PFaroe
RiskFirst reports that U.K. consultancy Xafinity and U.S. plan provider New York Life Retirement Plan Services have adopted PFaroe, its web-based risk analytics platform. PFaroe now has over £150 billion of pension liabilities modeled on it, says RiskFirst, which recently changed its name from PensionsFirst. Xafinity will use PFaroe throughout its advisory and investment business,… Read More >>
PensionFirst Is Now RiskFirst
Financial technology provider PensionsFirst – creator of the risk management platform PFaroe – has changed its name to RiskFirst, officials say. The new name reflects the broader focus of the company, which wants to meet the growing demand from insurers and other buy-side risk managers for more sophisticated analytics to manage multi-asset portfolios and to… Read More >>
