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Inside this Issue:
> Société Générale Puts Risk Management at Centre of Global Technology Build
> Hyper Rig Aggregates Risk Across Data Silos with Upgraded Hypercube
> Algorithmics Integrates Axioma Equity Models with Algo Risk Service
> Lombard Risk Management Plans Integration of Sofgen Regulatory Reporting
> Strategic Renews Risk and Trading systems with Misys Sophis Value
Torstone Technology has launched a new post-trade processing platform, using the software-as-a-service model. Torstone’s Inferno system aims to reduce middle and back-office costs while improving risk and reference data management with a solution tried and tested at Belgian banking group KBC.
Algorithmics decision to offer data from Axioma’s multi-factor equity models as part of its hosted Algo Risk Service will give equity traders access to familiar yet proprietary reports from Axioma’s models, but also consistency between the front and middle offices to ensure a middle office view of risk that is consistent with activity in the front office.
Washington, DC-based asset manager Strategic Investment Group plans to reduce operational risk, improve its overall view of risk and gain trading efficiencies through the implementation of the Sophis Value platform acquired by Misys in November 2010.
Otkritie Capital, the investment banking arm of Russia’s Otkritie Financial Corp., has selected a cloud-based solution from Nice Actimize to improve market abuse surveillance and anti-money laundering (AML) across its direct market access business and broker/dealer activities in Europe.
Hong Kong-based CITIC Bank International has implemented Pricing Partners’ Price-it Excel derivatives pricing library to give its risk management team and derivatives business a clearer understanding of pricing and valuation around foreign exchange structured products.
London-based Hermes Fund Managers has extended its use of MSCI’s Barra portfolio risk and performance analytics tools with Barra Portfolio Manager, an addition that will allow the asset manager to integrate risk and performance and use a common language to measure both.

















