Asset manager Harbor Capital Advisors implemented Geneva Managed Services from SS&C Technologies last month and will be using application programming interfaces (APIs) to integrate Geneva with the firm’s deployment of the SS&C Eze OMS (order management system), officials say. The Geneva offering helps firms manage asset classes and multi-currency portfolios via a single system. The… Read More >>
SS&C Advent Updates Key Offerings
While clients of the SS&C Advent line of solutions are implementing the latest product updates, SS&C Technologies reports that it is seeing an acceleration of long-term customer trends such as the embrace of cloud computing and outsourcing as a result of the pandemic-induced lockdown, market volatility, and economic challenges. The offerings just updated — Advent… Read More >>
Black Diamond Upgrades Links to Schwab’s Custodial Platform
SS&C Advent’s Black Diamond Wealth Platform is offering more digital access to the Schwab Advisor Center custodial platform via IT integration links that help end-users eliminate paper-based processes, save time, improve accuracy, and move faster toward digitizing their workflows, officials say. Schwab and SS&C’s Advent have been serving mutual clients “for more than 30 years,”… Read More >>
SS&C: Client-Facing Data Must Be Ready Sooner
(Editor’s note: Al Castillo, senior director, solutions management, Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS), has an idea why there is a major move to cloud-based managed services among SS&C Advent’s customer base. “As such, it’s an easy decision to pivot the deployment responsibility to a provider that has the knowledge and experience — and we’re seeing this… Read More >>
SS&C Advent’s Moxy & APX Get New Data Links
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. has created a new layer of data integration between its Advent Moxy trade order management system (TOMS) and Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) offerings that will allow end-users to set up automatic, real-time synchronization of common data that will let front- and back-office staff work from the same, current information. The data… Read More >>
Voters Reward Disruptive & Established Providers via FTF Awards
NEW YORK CITY — A mix of disruptive and established technology providers have made the winner’s circle of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards (the FTF Awards), which Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is revealing today. For instance, for the Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative, the winner is Synechron while TCS BaNCS and its Quartz effort… Read More >>
Firms Want Scalability via Cloud-Based Ops: Q&A
(Some financial services firms are still reluctant to hand over control of key aspects of back-office operations, says Al Castillo, senior director, solutions management at SS&C Advent, in his recent interview with FTF News. However, the scalability that the cloud provides usually wins them over. Castillo is responsible for the North American cloud delivery and… Read More >>
SS&C Advent Updates Key Offerings
SS&C Advent has unveiled product enhancements for its key offerings: Geneva, Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), Moxy, Tamale and Tradex, adding capabilities for scalability, greater data access, and measures to streamline compliance, say vendor officials. The updated offerings of the 18.1 release are generally available today and “were released to existing clients earlier this quarter,” says… Read More >>
FTF News Unveils Winners of 2018 FTF Awards
Providers of established and cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain ledgers and artificial intelligence are getting the spotlight in the winners’ circle of the annual FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2018, the eighth time that Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has recognized achievements in the securities operations industry. Other than the Editor’s Choice award, qualified industry… Read More >>
2018 Predictions: Hackers Will Hit Harder Than Last Year
(Editor’s Note: Cybersecurity concerns are high on almost every prognosticator’s list and several of them are predicting that things are only going to get worse for the securities industry.) “Unfortunately, we won’t be surprised to see another Equifax-like situation happen in 2018,” says Robert Roley, senior vice president, managing director and general manager for SS&C… Read More >>
