FundGuard, an investment accounting platform provider founded in 2018, has just raised $100 million via Series C funding — generally for late-stage startups — because the company is the first of its kind in 25 years to advance securities operations, company officials say. FundGard will be using the cash infusion to hasten the development of… 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 >>
World Bank Signs Licensing Agreement with SimCorp
World Bank Deployment to Cover Middle and Back Offices SimCorp, which provides investment management products and services to the financial services industry, reports that the World Bank has licensed SimCorp Dimension, the vendor’s investment management system. The agreement was signed in late 2018, per SimCorp. Under the agreement, the World Bank has licensed SimCorp’s “middle… Read More >>
SocGen May Pay $1.27B Penalty via Sanctions Case
Société Générale officials report that they are working with seven major American authorities to resolve a U.S. sanctions investigation, and that an ultimate settlement may cost the French banking giant $1.27 billion (€1.1 billion), which adds to the bank’s list of sanctions and regulatory compliance woes. “ … Société Générale has entered into a phase… Read More >>
Spanish Firm Revamping Ops via IBOR
A major wealth and asset management firm in Spain, CaixaBank Asset Management, is revamping front-to-back office operations via an Investment Book of Record (IBOR) approach that uses one source of real-time data, delivered enterprise-wide for positions, cash and exposure. The firm will be using a SimCorp Dimension-based IBOR to address its data management issues, and… Read More >>
Eikos Partners Open Sources Toolkit to Hasten App Development
Financial technology consultant Eikos Partners is open sourcing a JavaScript toolkit and offering its related consulting services in a bid to help buy-side and sell-side firms speed up their development of applications for the trading lifecycle. The consultancy will offer the JSCatalyst toolkit in combination with the Eikos design thinking methodology to help financial services… Read More >>
ICE Agrees to Sell Trayport to TMX Group
ICE to Get Cash & Some TMX Group Assets The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is selling a Trayport, a vendor of pre-trade energy solutions for traders, brokers and exchanges, to the TMX Group, parent company of the Toronto Stock Exchange, in exchange for certain TMX Group assets and… Read More >>
FTF Awards Q&A: Few Vendors Offer Proper IBORs
(Editor’s note: SimCorp has been a longtime proponent of investment book of record (IBOR) technology and has been riding out the hype-wave when suddenly every vendor had an IBOR offering. The vendor’s efforts were affirmed when it won the 2017 FTF News Technology Innovation Award for Best Investment Book of Record (IBOR) Solution. FTF News… Read More >>
DDJ Bolsters Ops via Cloud Version of Portia
Firm Gains Time, Ops Advantages via SS&C Hosting Investment manager DDJ Capital Management has signed on to use the hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of the venerable Portia system to outsource the creation, maintenance and control of overnight workflows and batch jobs, say officials at SS&C Technologies, the financial IT conglomerate that owns Portia. The SaaS… 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 >>
