Cheevers and Company, a Chicago-based institutional brokerage firm, has gone live with SS&C MarketTrader as its order management system (OMS) via the cloud as a way to stay on top of its growing business, say vendor and firm officials. Officials at Cheevers say MarketTrader will enable the firm to “operate more efficiently at every step… Read More >>
SS&C: ‘Sunsetting products upsets your client base’
Editor’s note: Earlier this month, SS&C Technologies, which offers financial services firms software and software-enabled services, completed its $2.63 billion acquisition of Advent Software, a vendor of software and services for investment management firms. Advent has more than 4,300 customers including asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, family offices and wealth management advisory… Read More >>
‘SS&C Evansville’ Expands to Accommodate 300 New Jobs
SS&C Technologies, a financial services software and services vendor, will be expanding its presence in Evansville, Ind. as it prepares to move into a new office and plans to hire for positions in fund accounting, software development, and customer support, officials say. SS&C Evansville supports hundreds of clients that range in size, structures and strategies… Read More >>
Q&A with Advent and SS&C: ‘It’s amazing how money talks’
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of stories about SS&C Technologies and its acquisition of Advent Software. In mid-June, the U.S. Department of Justice cleared SS&C Technologies Holdings’s pending $2.7 billion cash acquisition of Advent Software, which was announced in February. When asked if this action means that the acquisition was going to… Read More >>
Advent Software to Undergo Cultural Changes
Advent Software will be going through some cultural changes once it officially becomes part of SS&C Technologies either during the current quarter or the third quarter of this year, says Pete Hess, president and CEO of Advent Software, in an exclusive interview with FTF News. Hess and Bill Stone, chairman and CEO of SS&C, spoke… Read More >>
Albion Financial Group Embraces Cloud-Based Reporting
SS&C Technologies, a Windsor, Connecticut-based provider of financial software and software-enabled services, reports that Salt Lake City-based Albion Financial Group, a registered investment advisor with $900 million in assets under management, has selected its cloud-based client reporting solution. The SS&C solution, known as the Investment Management Intelligence Cloud, “aggregates data [from front, middle and back-office… Read More >>
Eckelmann Rejoins SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc., a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, reports that Samuel D. Eckelmann has rejoined the Windsor, Conn.-based company, where he was previously managing director, as vice president, strategic software development. The software architect and consultant is a 30-plus-years veteran, and has “performed numerous engagements for the world’s top financial… 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 >>
The Winners’ Circle for the FTF Awards
Cynthia Meyn, executive vice president for operations at bond fund manager PIMCO, was voted Ops Business Person of the Year as part of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2014. In addition, entrepreneur Stephen Marsh, founder and CEO of Smarsh, the email and social media compliance provider, was chosen FinTech Person of the Year while… Read More >>
SS&C Launches REIT Servicing Group
SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial software and software-enabled services, reports that it has established a real estate investment trust (REIT) servicing group. Noting its more than a decade of experience in mortgage REIT accounting and reporting, SS&C officials say the new group’s focus is on the expanding area of residential mortgage-backed securities and commercial… Read More >>
