ACA Compliance Group and Eagle Investment Systems have joined forces to offer a one-stop solution to help financial services firms achieve compliance with the performance measurement stipulations of the new 2020 Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS), a benchmark the securities industry. After a lengthy preparation for its release, the CFA Institute published the GIPS 2020… Read More >>
PGI Taps Eagle, Citisoft to Build Global IBOR
Principal Global Investors (PGI), the asset management subsidiary of the Principal Financial Group, reports that it is live with a hosted, portfolio accounting solution from Eagle Investment Systems that will serve as the firm’s centralized investment book of record (IBOR). The approximately four-year effort also involved investment management consultancy Citisoft, which partnered with PGI to… 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 >>
Eagle Connects to SIX’s Sanctioned Securities Service
SIX is working with Eagle Investment Systems to make it possible for Eagle clients to source sanctions data directly from SIX’s Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service. An expanded alliance between the two vendors is intended to help end-users streamline efforts to “validate and align sanctions data with existing portfolio data, helping firms minimize the risk of… Read More >>
AxiomSL Hires CFO from Charles River Development
David Weber to Serve as CFO &COO for AxiomSL AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management services, reports the appointment of David Weber as chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO). Weber is a financial services industry veteran, with more than 30 years of financial management and operations experience, AxiomSL says…. Read More >>
AI & ML Will Jolt Back Offices: Report
While there has been a lot of hype over disruptive technologies and trends, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could have the biggest impacts upon securities operations, according to a survey of asset managers, conducted by vendor Eagle Investment Systems and the Hegarty Group, a market research firm. The report’s authors acknowledge that while… Read More >>
Eagle & ACA Collaborate to Ease GIPS Verification
Vendors Eagle Investment Systems and ACA Compliance Group (ACA) are collaborating to offer services that will help financial services firms streamline the verification process for the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) that govern investment performance. The collaboration will leverage Eagle’s data management, performance measurement and attribution solutions and ACA’s subject matter expertise, officials say. The… Read More >>
FTF Awards Q&A: Why Eagle is a Cloud Pioneer
(Editor’s note: Eagle Investment Systems has won many awards over the years via the 2018 FTF Technology Innovation Awards. This year it was voted Best Cloud Computing Solution for its Eagle ACCESS private cloud system. FTF News got time with Mike Fitzgerald, the chief information officer at Eagle, to delve into why the company chose… 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 >>
Eagle & Microsoft Building a Public Cloud Offering
Eagle Investment Systems is working with Microsoft to develop an Azure, public cloud-based data management platform that will serve as an alternative offering to Eagle’s incumbent private cloud service Eagle Access. “Eagle originally announced its digital transformation, including plans to build a new cloud platform, at the Engage16 Eagle client conference,” says Mike Fitzgerald, chief… Read More >>
