A month after it was officially acquired by Deutsche Börse Group, SimCorp, an investment management platform provider, will be merged with Axioma, a maker of factor risk models, portfolio construction tools, and multi-asset class enterprise risk solutions. SimCorp and Axioma are subsidiaries of Deutsche Börse Group, which should ease the merging process. The SimCorp-Axioma integration… Read More >>
Northern Trust & SimCorp to Build Custody Data Links
Northern Trust and investment management solutions vendor SimCorp report that they are collaborating to facilitate an integrated exchange of data for clients of the custodian that also use the SimCorp Dimension platform. The collaboration leverages SimCorp’s software “with pre-established connectivity and Northern Trust’s support for data management,” says James Wright, head of asset owners, EMEA at… Read More >>
SimCorp Faces a Horse Race in North America: Q&A
(Editor’s note: Investment management solutions vendor SimCorp, based in Copenhagen, recently announced that it had hired John Needham to be its next managing director for SimCorp North America. An industry veteran with 25 years of experience, Needham had been working for trading and risk management provider Murex in a senior leadership position before joining SimCorp…. Read More >>
RJO Relaunches & Fills President’s Post
RJO Promotes Staniford to President Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), which is generally regarded as the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, reports that Daniel Staniford has been named president. Staniford will “act on behalf of RJO and all of its global affiliates and related entities, including… Read More >>
SimCorp & JPMorgan Partner to Ease Ops Integration
A new collaboration between SimCorp and JPMorgan’s Securities Services group is intended to help their mutual clients share intraday and multi-asset data — a key part of a new effort to bring interoperability and transparency to SimCorp’s systems and the investment bank’s pre-trade, post-trade, trading, and treasury solutions. This tighter integration between front-and-middle office operations… Read More >>
SimCorp & Intellibonds Aim A.I. at Portfolio Construction
Investment management systems vendor SimCorp and fixed income analytics specialist IntelliBonds are partnering to offer front-office portfolio management teams alpha generation capabilities that exploit cutting-edge technologies and offer a path to system consolidation, officials say. The partnership will integrate cloud-based workflows that are augmented by artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies as the way to bolster productivity… Read More >>
MAWER LAUNCHES A ‘SPINE REPLACEMENT’ IT OVERHAUL
Canadian firm Mawer Investment Management is embarking upon its most ambitious IT project in its 46-year history. Mawer Investment Management Ltd.’s motto is “Be Boring. Make Money.” But its plans for a major IT infrastructure overhaul are anything but dull. Mawer (pronounced “more”) has just embarked upon its most ambitious IT transformation project in its… Read More >>
Start-Up MEMX Launches Live Equities Trading
Members Exchange Trades in Seven Symbols A securities exchange start-up, the Members Exchange (MEMX) launched live trading via the U.S. equity market on Sept. 21, the first phase of MEMX’s rollout schedule. “A quick update on our first day of trading,” wrote Jonathan Kellner, CEO of MEMX, in a blog posting. “We executed our first… Read More >>
SimCorp’s Dimension Moves to Microsoft’s Azure: Q&A
(SimCorp, a provider of multi-asset investment management solutions and services, recently announced that it will be integrating its Dimension platform with the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. This phased integration will yield the hosted, SimCorp Dimension-as-a-Service offering via a public cloud, officials say. The move is the vendor’s response to the needs of its clients… Read More >>
SimCorp Targets Buy Side’s Need for Holistic Data Management
SimCorp, an investment management solutions and services vendor, has launched a managed data service, dubbed Datacare, that targets buy-side firms searching for an updated, holistic approach to overseeing multiple-asset, front-to-back office market and reference data, officials say. The new offering was developed in collaboration with buy-side institutions such as Zurich Insurance Group, which has an… Read More >>
