QIC Moves Away from Global Custodian QIC, the Australian investment fund for the Queensland government, will be using cloud-based data management and performance measurement solutions from Eagle Investment Systems, which marks a move away from a global custodian that had been providing outsourced data and performance measurement functions. The firm, which has A$81 billion in… Read More >>
FTF Announces 2017 Award Winners
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has just announced the winners in its awards competition for post-trade securities operations, which turned out to include a nod to the emerging technology of blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT). Approved industry participants and a not a panel of judges selected the winners for the 2017 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, reports… Read More >>
BrokerTec Europe Acquires Italian CLOB Platform
BrokerTec Takes Majority Stake in e-MID Officials at BrokerTec Europe, NEX Group’s global electronic fixed income trading platform, say the firm is acquiring a majority stake in e-MID SIM SpA (e-MID), acquiring the Italian electronic central limit order book (CLOB) platform for interbank deposits and overnight indexed swaps (OIS). The acquisition, which was just approved… Read More >>
Eagle, Donnelley Alliance Targets New SEC Reporting
Eagle Investment Systems and Donnelley Financial Solutions have formed a strategic alliance to create an integrated offering that will help firms comply with new monthly and annual SEC reporting rules that require the gathering of “census-type” and portfolio data about mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Specifically, the alliance will graft Donnelley’s financial reporting and… Read More >>
Broker Deploys Torstone’s Back-Office System in Four Months
U.K. Firm Wants Cost-Effective, Scalable Back Office Liberum, a pan-European investment bank, signed a multi-year deal with Torstone Technology in July to deploy the vendor’s Inferno back-office system and went live earlier this month with the new system, achieving a four-month implementation, according to Liberum and vendor officials. An employee-owned firm, Liberum offers pan-European equity… Read More >>
Desjardins Group to Ride Eagle’s Cloud
Desjardins Group, a major Canadian cooperative financial group, has decided to move to a new investment fund accounting platform hosted on private cloud that will help the firm with new instrument types and workflows all in a bid to improve the efficiency of Desjardins’ fund accounting department. The platform and cloud support will be from… Read More >>
FTF Awards Spotlights Ops Providers and Individuals
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF), owner of FTF News, has just announced the winners of the 2016 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, noting that it had a record-breaking response with approximately 27,000 votes cast for 25 awards categories. Except for the Editor’s Choice award, the nominees and ultimate winners of the awards are selected by FTF… Read More >>
SS&C and Advent Team Up for Geneva Upgrade
SS&C and Advent Teams Focus on Combined Clients Technology teams from financial services software and systems vendor SS&C Technologies and its recent acquisition Advent have been working closely and quickly to deliver Geneva, version 15.2, the latest release of the fund administration platform for their joint fund administration clients. Originally an Advent product, Geneva offers… Read More >>
Deutsche AWM Goes Live with Eagle Solution
Vendor Eagle Investment Systems, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, reports that its data management solution has gone live at Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management, where it will support the firm’s EMEA and Asia-Pacific operations, officials say. “Deutsche AWM, with €1.039 billion of assets under management (AUM), is among the 10 largest bank-owned asset and wealth… Read More >>
Standard Bank to Deploy Cloud-Based Solution
The private clients business of Standard Bank in South Africa will be deploying accounting and enterprise data management solutions from Eagle Investment Systems to support key fund accounting and data functions of its middle- and back-office operations, officials say. Eagle officials describe the offering as a real-time, web-based, hosted accounting system running on top of… Read More >>