FinTech

09/11/2012

UK asset manager moves to SimCorp Dimension

“A key criterion was to have a system that would be future-proof and reduce our overall costs of ownership. SimCorp Dimension was the best fit for this,” says Hughes.

09/09/2012

Irish Wealth Manager Implements SunGard's Protegent

"It is vital to display corporate responsibility and identify potential market abuse. SunGard's Protegent solution provides the flexibility and functionality that we need to help manage the increasing regulatory requirements to perform timely an

09/05/2012

Banks should outsource to avoid IT issues

Following the call this week from the FSA to challenge executives of the high street banks to show what actions they are taking to protect themselves from future IT outages, such as the RBS computer glitch earlier this year, the argument for outsourcing I

09/04/2012

Axioma signs BlueCrest Capital Management

Axioma, a leading provider of decision support, risk analysis, portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution tools, today announced that BlueCrest Capital Management LLP, a leading alternative asset manager with more than $32 billion in assets under m

09/04/2012

FSA 'asks banks for IT contingency plans'

The Financial Services Authority wants the main high street banks to detail their efforts to prevent a software glitch like the one that hit Royal Bank of Scotland in June, the Financial Times claimed.

09/04/2012

Ashmore Investment Management goes live with Calastone

Joining the network is simple and does not require additional costly technology. Single point of entry to the market via Calastone is seamless and industry developments, such as the movement away from ISO 15022 messaging to the ISO 20022 standard, are eas

09/03/2012

FSA challenges bank chairmen over IT

The letter to the nine largest banks and building societies from two senior Financial Services Authority executives also demands the names of senior managers who could be held personally responsible if information technology systems go awry.

09/03/2012

Banks’ regulatory spend spurs Rule Financial’s growth

Despite many economists doubting banks’ IT spend this year (e.g. Celent predicted growth of just 2.8% in 2012), Rule Financial is continuing to expand globally. Rule Financial has found that regulatory pressure is a key driver for projects that it i

09/03/2012

SS&C Launches CAMRA I-Risk

SS&C Technologies today launched CAMRA I-Risk for Insurance companies to address emerging Solvency standards by combining CAMRA’s sophisticated financial reporting capabilities with a state-of-the-art position-based stochastic simulation model.