Fintech provider SimCorp has unveiled its Axioma Factor Library Suite, a new data repository designed to give quantitative managers a unified source of research data for building investment strategies. The suite supports alpha construction, risk management, custom model development, strategy design, stress testing, and scenario analysis. Aimed at hedge funds, systematic investors, and asset managers,… Read More >>
SimCorp & MSCI Streamline Access to Private Data
Investment management solutions provider SimCorp and market index and decision support provider MSCI have expanded their data collaboration efforts by focusing on the operational burden for buy-side firms of streamlining access to aggregated, private market datasets, officials say. SimCorp and MSCI initially collaborated in 2022 to offer SimCorp clients access to private investment benchmark data,… Read More >>
SimCorp One to Get Clearstream’s Post-Trade Apps
Clearstream’s post-trade offerings will become part of SimCorp’s integrated, front-to-back office investment platform, known as SimCorp One, as a result of a new partnership between the two companies, officials say. SimCorp is a provider of investment management solutions, while Clearstream offers fund dealing, distribution, digital, and data services to more than 55 fund markets worldwide,… Read More >>
SimCorp to Use LSEG’s Structured Debt Analytics
Investment services and systems provider SimCorp has partnered once again with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to enhance its Axioma risk management platform, this time with advanced securitized debt analytics. Officials say this will help institutional investors make faster, better-informed decisions. LSEG’s Yield Book, part of its Data and Analytics division, will be integrated… Read More >>
SimCorp Bolsters North American Push via Axioma Merger
A month after it was officially acquired by Deutsche Börse Group, SimCorp, an investment management platform provider, will be merged with Axioma, a maker of factor risk models, portfolio construction tools, and multi-asset class enterprise risk solutions. SimCorp and Axioma are subsidiaries of Deutsche Börse Group, which should ease the merging process. The SimCorp-Axioma integration… Read More >>
Northern Trust & SimCorp to Build Custody Data Links
Northern Trust and investment management solutions vendor SimCorp report that they are collaborating to facilitate an integrated exchange of data for clients of the custodian that also use the SimCorp Dimension platform. The collaboration leverages SimCorp’s software “with pre-established connectivity and Northern Trust’s support for data management,” says James Wright, head of asset owners, EMEA at… Read More >>
SimCorp Faces a Horse Race in North America: Q&A
(Editor’s note: Investment management solutions vendor SimCorp, based in Copenhagen, recently announced that it had hired John Needham to be its next managing director for SimCorp North America. An industry veteran with 25 years of experience, Needham had been working for trading and risk management provider Murex in a senior leadership position before joining SimCorp…. Read More >>
RJO Relaunches & Fills President’s Post
RJO Promotes Staniford to President Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), which is generally regarded as the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, reports that Daniel Staniford has been named president. Staniford will “act on behalf of RJO and all of its global affiliates and related entities, including… Read More >>
SimCorp & JPMorgan Partner to Ease Ops Integration
A new collaboration between SimCorp and JPMorgan’s Securities Services group is intended to help their mutual clients share intraday and multi-asset data — a key part of a new effort to bring interoperability and transparency to SimCorp’s systems and the investment bank’s pre-trade, post-trade, trading, and treasury solutions. This tighter integration between front-and-middle office operations… Read More >>
SimCorp & Intellibonds Aim A.I. at Portfolio Construction
Investment management systems vendor SimCorp and fixed income analytics specialist IntelliBonds are partnering to offer front-office portfolio management teams alpha generation capabilities that exploit cutting-edge technologies and offer a path to system consolidation, officials say. The partnership will integrate cloud-based workflows that are augmented by artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies as the way to bolster productivity… Read More >>
