Omgeo President and CEO Marianne Brown Looks to Expand Globally By Acting Locally
12/12/2007Emerging markets are ready to compete, says Marianne Brown, who joined Omgeo as CEO and president in November 2006.
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Emerging markets are ready to compete, says Marianne Brown, who joined Omgeo as CEO and president in November 2006.
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3/19/2007In outsourcing its back-office functions to ADP, WestLB Securities didn't want to lose its identity.
Wealth Managers Turn to Unified Managed Accounts to Better Serve Wealthy Clients
1/24/2007Unified managed accounts and unified managed households are part of a growing trend to electronically aggregate a client's holdings in as close to real time as possible. The goal of such cross-product, cross-institution and cross-individual accounts is superior portfolio management, including tax optimization and risk mitigation.
Marianne Brown Replaces Adam Bryan as Omgeo’s President and CEO
1/5/2007The new head of Omgeo talks about her plans for the future of the automated post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services provider.
VOIP Provides Efficient and Cost Effective Communications for Smaller Investment Managers and Hedge Funds
9/19/2006VOIP provides efficient and cost-effective communications for small investment managers and hedge funds.
Outer Defenses
8/21/2006To win back investors' confidence following a seemingly endless parade of high-profile breaches, remote hardware security has become a differentiating factor for financial services firms.
ITG’s Acquisitions - and Solutions - Gradually Come Together
8/7/2006The action really started Jan. 3," says Ian Domowitz, CEO of ITG Solutions Group, referring to the date on which his business division was founded with the closing of two acquisitions.
Xeye Focuses on Integration
6/21/2006Responding to a growing demand for integrated solutions, Xeye, a provider of wealth management technologies, has made its way down the Web services road.
PAM Gets a Facelift
6/21/2006Princeton N.J.-based Princeton Financial Systems (booth 1840), a provider of portfolio management and accounting software to financial institutions, has been working to put a new face on PAM.
Charles River Continues Four-Step Program
6/20/2006Burlington, Mass.-based Charles River Development (CRD), a provider of investment management software and services to the buy side, has begun its very own four-step program.
Now Private, SunGard Spends More Time on Product, Less on Financial Reporting
6/20/2006Last year, SunGard (booth 2411), one of the world's largest providers of software and processing solutions, went private. The deal, the second-largest leveraged buyout in history, left CEO Cristobal Conde free to make moves without the Street driving the firm's stock up and down with every quarterly report.
Eze Remodels the Castle
6/20/2006Eze Castle Software (booth 1815), a Boston-based provider of buy-side order management systems, has been doing some remodeling of its core Traders Console OMS over the past year.
EDM Council Grows to 45 Members
6/20/2006New York-based GoldenSource (booth 3206), a provider of enterprise data management (EDM) software to the financial services industry, is feeling quite the proud parent of the growing not-for-profit EDM Council, which now boasts 45 member firms.
Advent Skipper Focused on Customers
6/20/2006Well into her second tour of duty as CEO of the company she founded in 1983, Advent's (booth 2019) Stephanie DiMarco has the firm refocused on the needs of its diverse customer base.
ITG’s Solutions Gradually Coming Together
6/20/2006The action really started Jan. 3," says Ian Domowitz, CEO, ITG Solutions Group (booth 2609), referring to the date on which his business division was founded with the closing of two acquisitions.
The Best of Both Worlds
5/15/2006Mutual funds with hedge fund characteristics, such as offerings from Rydex Investments, are giving customers more choices.
Assembling the Risk Puzzle
4/14/2006For Fairfield Greenwich Group, aggregating an accurate risk picture across externally managed vehicles requires flexible solutions.
Jumping Into the (Pension) Pool
2/13/2006Northern Trust has found that creating a tax-transparent, cross-border pension vehicle poses more than just technological challenges.
Hard Times for Soft Dollars
1/24/2006Soft dollars are a means of paying brokerage firms for their services through trade commission revenue. To cover fees for research, for example, buy-side firms direct order flow to the sell-side service provider, which charges inflated trade commissions.
Excellence in Execution
1/6/2006As the buy side takes on more responsibility for executing its own trades, TCA is becoming an integral part of the trading process.
Filling the Tech-Talent Pipeline
11/18/2005To ensure the future of their technology organizations, some Wall Street firms are promoting IT careers.
A Slice of the Boomer Pie
10/26/2005Firms are upping wealth management spending and examining enterprisewide solutions in hopes of luring mass-affluent clients.
Follow the Leader
9/23/2005A soft dollar ruling by the United Kingdom's FSA has the attention of U.S.-based financial institutions. Will the SEC follow the FSA's lead?
Instant Algorithms
8/22/2005Pivot Solutions, a Boston-based instant messaging and electronic trading network that was spun off from Eze Castle Integration, recently added algorithmic trading capabilities to its AOL IM front end.
Daiwa Charts Neutral Course
8/22/2005Daiwa Securities America, a U.S. rendition of its Japan-based parent, prefers to model its business on Switzerland's ideology rather than that of either the United States or Japan.
The Right Mix
6/29/2005Building a cost-effective technology portfolio requires careful planning and a balanced approach.
IPC Introduces Enterprise Voice Services
6/23/2005IPC Information Systems is touting the release of its new Enterprise Voice Services (EVS) -- an IP-based trader voice service -- at this year's Securities Industry Association Technology Management Conference and Exhibit.
Syndera Uses Business Intelligence for Trading
6/22/2005Syndera Corp. is trading in the horizontal life for the vertical world of financial services by providing server-based enterprise software that can monitor a whole host of criteria, alerting users to problems or trends on the fly.
Computing, Technology, Microsoft, License, Windows Vista, Transfer, Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional
6/22/2005Swift is taking advantage of this year's SIA Conference as the perfect opportunity to tout SwiftNet's latest features to the U.S. financial services industry.
SunGard Goes Private, But Not Quiet
6/21/2005Just because Wayne, Pa.-based SunGard looks to be going private doesn't mean the company will be going quiet, or so it would seem, based on comments from SunGard President and CEO Cristobal Conde.
IX Completes Lift-Out for Ark Asset Management
6/21/2005X Partners, a Salem, N.H.-based provider of middle- and back-office services to financial institutions, is making its freshman appearance at the Securities Industry Association's Technology Management Conference and Exhibit this year.
CSS Offerings Span the Gamut
6/21/2005Comprehensive Software Systems (CSS; booth 3307), based in Golden, Colo., hopes that being able to offer the gamut of software solutions - from enterprisewide to task-specific modules - will make it a hit at this year's SIA Technology Management Conference and Exhibit.
Operation Topoff
5/25/2005Industry trade associations ramp up BCP efforts through participation in the Department of Homeland Security's simulation attack exercise.
Marrying Wireless and CRM
5/25/2005As the Blackberry becomes omnipresent on Wall Street, investment management firms are rushing to find compatible CRM products.
SIA Quietly Initiates VOIP Pilot; Goals Unclear
5/12/2005The SIA has launched a pilot with several major Wall Street firms to offer its stamp of approval on one or more VOIP networks.
Learning to Communicate
4/26/2005A customer relationship management tool can help seal a deal, but getting employees to embrace the technology is key to success.
Two Worlds Come Together
3/22/2005As voice and data converge, Wall Street sees opportunities for Voice over Internet Protocol, but the technology is no slam dunk.
Riding Hedge Fund’s Coattails
3/1/2005As hedge funds experience explosive growth, prime brokers aim to become their one-stop shop for clearing and execution.
IT Projects Require More Than Just Management
2/27/2005Before a firm can manage a project portfolio, it must manage individual projects effectively.
IT Portfolio Prowess
2/27/2005Investment managers aren't the only ones who need to manage portfolios. Now, the CIO does, too.
Managing Technology
2/4/2005Chief information officers are embracing a new way of managing the projects that take place throughout their vast domains: viewing them as if they are part of a financial portfolio, with each project representing an investment that has its own goals and risks.
Integration
2/4/2005The Issue Defined: After decades of technology development, Wall Street firms find themselves with multiple business lines running dozens of applications that don't speak the same language.
Data First
1/5/2005With straight-through processing again on financial institutions' agendas, the focus has turned to data management as a first step.
Product Watch
6/22/2004Legato Preps Firms for Subpoenas; Enigmatec Manages Infrastructure; Fidelity Offers Corp. Actions ASP; BT Syntegra Opens Trading Floor; Linedata's Holistic View; ZipLip Gets Proactive
STP’s New Driver: Compliance
6/10/2004Once a darling of the industry that brought people to conferences in droves, STP is back, according to some. But this time, compliance is driving STP efforts, STP itself.
FROM THE SIA SHOW: Legato Preps Firms for Subpoenas
6/8/2004Legato Software (booth #3512) is building a line of business around the capability of responding to one of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's subpoenas -- specifically, responding to large-but-specific requests from investigators for company e-mails.
FROM THE SIA SHOW: HyperFeed Focuses
6/8/2004HyperFeed Technologies (booth #1427) is going through a metamorphosis, and the company is eager to show the financial-services industry its new look at this year's Security Industry Association Technology Management Conference and Exhibit.
FROM THE SIA SHOW: Fidelity to Make Corporate Actions Tools Available on an ASP Basis
6/8/2004Fidelity ActionsXchange (booth #1726) is helping the financial-services industry cope with one of its most stubborn problems -- corporate actions.
FROM THE SIA SHOW: FaceTime Targets
6/8/2004FaceTime Communications (booth #1620) is looking to cash in on the convergence of two factors -- an explosion in the use of instant messaging at financial institutions and regulations that require those communications be audited and archived.
Integrating Disparate Databases
4/27/2004Prebon Yamane manages data globally with a little help from BEA and Sonic Software.
Raymond James Extends Security Blanket
3/26/2004The financial-services provider is beefing up security with intrusion-detection software from WholeSecurity.
GE Asset Management Taps Latent Zero
3/26/2004After several acquisitions, GE Asset Management revamped its firm-wide trade-compliance and order-management systems.
Brown Brothers Settles on CLS
3/2/2004By accessing the CLS Bank through a member bank, Brown Brothers has not only mitigated risk, but has changed its FX processes.
Patriot Act Compliance Isn’t Easy
3/1/2004Financial institutions are finding that compliance with the USA Patriot Act is much more challenging than simply verifying a customer's address or watching for large wire transfers from mysterious foreign accounts.
3/1/2004
In a post-Sept. 11 world, financial institutions know better than to take compliance lightly.
New Regs Keep BCP Center Stage
2/12/2004The NASD and the NYSE want to ensure that their members are ready if Wall Street is ever targeted again.
Learning to Manage the Message
2/12/2004As instant messaging becomes a favorite among Wall Street traders, it also garners the attention of industry regulators.
Acronyms Abound in Operations
1/5/2004IM, BCP and STP are all part of the alphabet soup that operations professionals grapple with every day.
How BlackRock Stays Solid
1/5/2004BlackRock Vice Chairman Rob Kapito describes how his firm stays on top of the fixed-income world by keeping its technology architecture simple.
Firms Better "Get the Message" About IM
12/11/2003Any firms that feel regulators should treat IM differently than e-mail had better think again.
Buy-Side Bashing in Singapore
11/17/2003Forgetting that the customer is always right, broker/dealers and custodians made asset managers the pinatas at Swift's annual Sibos conference.
The Price of STP
11/17/2003At Wall Street & Technology's Straight-Through-Processing Conference, T. Rowe Price's Doren Jacobs explains his firm's path to trade-processing nirvana.
Separately Managed Accounts Industry Gets A Facelift
11/13/2003The separately managed accounts industry is poised to take off after a new messaging system from NSCC goes live.
Making the Grade
10/27/2003Executives from the financial-services industry recently discussed budgeting tactics at WS&T's STP conference in NYC.
All I Want for Christmas ...
10/27/2003No longer satisfied with the hand-me-down technology of equities; fixed-income traders are getting order-management systems of their very own.
BCP’s Balancing Act
10/27/2003Setting up a BCP plan is like buying insurance - everyone wants full coverage but not everyone can afford it.
Buy Side Takes a Beating at Sibos
10/23/2003To the surprise of few, industry players made asset managers the pinatas of this year's Sibos in Singapore.
All I Want for Christmas ...
10/9/2003No longer satisfied with the hand-me-down technology of equities; fixed-income traders are getting order-management systems of their very own.
You Just Don't Understand
10/6/2003The SIA continues to speak the language of STP, but is it saying anything the buy side wants to hear?
Making the Grade: Prioritizing STP Projects
9/18/2003Executives from the financial-services industry recently discussed STP-budgeting tactics at Wall Street & Technology's Straight-Through-Processing Conference in New York City.
Who Will Bid On the GSTPA's TFM?
8/26/2003After eating up over 90 million euros of industry funding on its way to bankruptcy court, the GSTPA's TFM will soon be on the auction block.
Lehman Brothers Stays Together
8/21/2003Lehman Brothers' CIO Jon Beyman took August 14th off but didn't have the relaxing day he planned.
Nasdaq: All Systems Read Go
8/21/2003Being an all-electronic exchange, Nasdaq was ready to go when the screens went dark.
NEWS EXCLUSIVE--Mixed Signals: Who Will Bid On the GSTPA's TFM?
7/24/2003After eating up over 90 million euros of industry funding on its way to bankruptcy court, the GSTPA's TFM will soon be on the auction block.
FIX’s Post-Trade Play
7/17/2003Does FIX 4.4 have the potential to disrupt Omgeo's dominance of the post-trade space?
Welcome to the State of Linux: Population Rising
6/20/2003Though Linux has achieved significant adoption in the world of computing, and offers the ability to exert greater price pressure on hardware vendors, vertically aligned financial-services-technology providers have yet to port to the new platform en masse, says Dushyant Shahrawat, senior analyst with TowerGroup.
Straight from the Reader’s Mouth
6/18/2003When WS&T wanted to take the pulse of the industry, we couldn't think of anyone better to speak with than our very own Reader Advisory Board members.
Merrill Lynch Brings Mainframe to Web With X4ML
6/18/2003In an effort to reduce development costs when opening up back-office, mainframe-hosted programs to requests by Internet-based applications, Merrill Lynch has developed XML for Merrill Lynch (X4ML).
Doing More With Less ... and Less
6/17/2003Smaller staffs, smaller budgets and increased regulations have combined to make running operations at a financial institution a daunting task.
Search For the Single Right Answer
6/17/2003Looking to solve one of the most frustrating issues in the securities industry, the DTCC is entering into the corporate-actions-processing fray.
A Conversation with Northern Trust’s Tim Theriault
6/17/2003WS&T Managing Editor Anthony Guerra recently sat down with Tim Theriault to learn how he has put Northern Trust at the forefront of institutions that are looking to streamline and automate by taking the phone and fax out of the corporate-actions equation.
Could FIX 4.4 Hurt Omgeo's Post-Trade Play?
6/17/2003A recent study by CityIQ, a London-based consultancy, contends that the latest release of the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol will soon be an alternative to firms using services like Omgeo for post-trade communication among broker/dealers, investment managers and custodians.
A Conversation With SunGard’s Cris Conde
6/17/2003As SunGard's President and Chief Executive Officer, Cris Conde sits at the controls of one of the most powerful vendors in the financial-services arena.
Though Burned by GSTPA, SIA is Still a Fan of Matching
5/15/2003At the SIA Ops conference in Florida, Don Kittell discussed the history and future of central matching.
A Conversation with American Century’s Bob Sauvageau
5/13/2003Leading a large buy-side firm through today's economy takes business and tech savvy. American Century's CTO says doing more with less is now just part of the job.
Megamergers Shake Up Correspondent-Clearing Space
5/13/2003In a depressed economy, some correspondent-clearing firms are practicing the art of acquisition to grow their businesses.
Uncertainty Slows Preparation for Basel II
5/13/2003A lack of clear direction by regulators is causing some to adopt a wait-and-see approach to preparing for Basel II.
Merrill Lynch Brings Mainframe to Web With X4ML
4/24/2003Merrill Lynch technologists have developed a new protocol that opens mainframe-based functions to the World Wide Web.
Uncertainty Slows Preparation for Basel II
4/17/2003A lack of clear direction by regulators is causing some to adopt a wait-and-see approach to preparing for the implementation of Basel II.
A Season of Change
4/16/2003In a tough economy, being complacent about technology is not an option. To that end, buy-side firms are taking a closer look at key applications in an effort to ensure they are getting the most bang for their buck.
Stakes to Play
4/16/2003OMS has become a prerequisite to doing the business of investment management.
T+1? 2010, 2004, or Today
4/15/2003Though the SIA plans to revisit the issue in 2004, one analyst doesn't see T+1 happening until at least 2010. Another analyst thinks it should happen today, and an IT manager reveals his firm's STP program is dead and gone.
Service Provider Uses IT Monitoring Tech to Sleep Better
4/10/2003Effron's Performer Division has selected Appilog's PathFinder suite of IT monitoring tools.
Automated-Allocation Tool Targets Smaller Investment Managers
3/28/2003Some large broker/dealers, tired of receiving faxes from lower-tier investment managers, have worked with Omgeo to develop a Web-based allocation solution.
Buy-Side Firms To Brokers: Operational Efficiency Matters
3/20/2003A new survey indicates that investment managers are more concerned than people might think about their broker's back-office efficiency.
Analyst Doesn’t See T+1 Till 2010
3/13/2003Despite the fact that T+1 seems a distant memory, many consultants and analysts keep singing the STP tune.
SwiftNet Migration is Major Undertaking
3/12/2003Swift is, once again, asking its users to invest large quantities of money and time in a mandated technology conversion.
Bonds & the Buy Side
3/12/2003Though far behind equities, investment-management firms are starting to bring greater automation and efficiency to their fixed-income trading.
Slapping On the Cuffs
3/12/2003Will new restrictions being placed on portfolio managers bring about risk reduction or simply reduce the potential for profit?
INDUSTRY SPLIT ON WHEN, NOT IF, OF T+1 MANDATE
2/27/2003Executives in the financial-services industry are still split on the benefits of imposing a trade-date-plus-one settlement cycle, according to a recent study conducted by Deloitte & Touche's STP practice.
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