Charles River IMS Uses LTX to Bolster Bond Trading LTX, an A.I.-enabled corporate bond trading platform from Broadridge Financial Solutions, has been integrated with an established offering — the Investment Management Solution (IMS) from Charles River — in order to offer end-users better liquidity aggregation and improved workflows, trade transparency, and price discovery, officials… Read More >>
FCA Greenlights More OTFs, MTFs in Time for MiFID II
BGC, Integral Get FCA Approvals Just in time for the onset of MiFID II, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has authorized that BGC Brokers LP, GFI Brokers Ltd., GFI Securities Ltd. can each operate an organized trading facility (OTF), and Sunrise Brokers can operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF) via GFI Brokers Ltd. and… Read More >>
Eze Software, Charles River Form MiFID II Partnerships
The January 3, 2018 deadline for MiFID II is hitting home for the securities industry and not only are global firms moving fast to hit their marks but vendors are acquiring complementary providers, creating patents, expanding their offerings or partnering before it gets too late. Over the summer, the industry has seen: Risk Focus form… Read More >>
Agency-Broker Launches Portal for Order Inspection
Dash Financial Debuts a Transparency Portal An agency broker-dealer, Dash Financial has launched DROP360, a real-time, drop-copy facility that provides transparency into “order routing behavior, execution behavior, costs and performance” for options and equities, and relays the information in a machine readable format that uses the FIX electronic trading protocol. Essentially, the DROP360 service is… Read More >>
Speakerbus Partners with Westcon for EMEA Distribution
Speakerbus Expects Deal to Boost Growth Speakerbus, a specialist provider of voice solutions, has signed an agreement with Westcon Group, a distributor of products and professional services for converged telecommunications solutions, to distribute Speakerbus’ offerings in the EMEA region, say Speakerbus officials. The partnership is expected to help Speakerbus grow. Speakerbus offers “advanced telephony, hoot… Read More >>
Vendors Are Rushing to Fill Voids in Ops Offerings
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 >>
Toronto-based Asset Manager Deploys Hosted Charles River System
Toronto-based asset manager EdgePoint Investment Group (EdgePoint) has gone live with the hosted Investment Management Solution (IMS) from vendor Charles River to support its increasing trade volumes and business growth, say vendor and firm officials. The deployment will help the firm replace several platforms including the consolidation of order and execution management systems, officials say…. Read More >>
Thai Asset Manager Picks Charles River System
Charles River, a front- and middle-office investment management solution provider, reports that Krung Thai Asset Management (KTAM), a Bangkok-based, state of Thailand-owned asset management firm, has picked the Charles River investment management solution (IMS), delivered as a managed application. “Over the past decade, Charles River has built a strong reputation for understanding and addressing the… Read More >>
Liquidity Search Tops Survey of Fixed Income Concerns
A survey conducted by Charles River, a front- and middle-office investment management solution provider, finds that the greatest market challenge facing fixed income traders is “discovering and accessing liquidity.” The survey was conducted during a recent webinar with over 100 global buy-side participants, Charles River says. Survey participants also called the transition to electronic trading… Read More >>
Charles River’s IBOR Gets Corporate Actions Feed
Financial software vendor Charles River has expanded its Investment Book of Record (IBOR) offering by integrating Interactive Data’s Corporate Actions Service into its Investment Management Solution (IMS), according to a company statement Charles River clients will now have intraday access to Interactive Data’s mandatory and voluntary corporate actions, dividends and capital events information, Charles River… Read More >>
