Wei-Shen Wong

5 days ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Digital assets hedge fund Firinne Capital, like most startup funds, had a choice to make: should it build or buy its portfolio and risk management systems? Opting for autonomy, it chose the more difficult path. “Given our collective quant and technology backgrounds, we architected and built our own version 1 of our PMS,” Jim Hwang, chief operating officer of Firinne Capital, says. The firm launched the Firinne Liquid Digital Assets Fund in June 2022, offering broad market exposure to digital assets

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Bloomberg’s announcement this week that it will allow financial firms to deploy third-party chatbots in chat rooms on Instant Bloomberg with a new service called IB Connect: Cross-Firm Chatbots promises to increase the speed and ease with which firms can share information—such as pricing and research—with counterparties without leaving Instant Bloomberg to retrieve data.

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Aware Super—Australia’s third-largest superannuation fund, managing A$176 billion ($113 billion) of assets—is nearing the finish line of Project Odin, a multi-year overhaul of its internal investment platform. At the end of March, it completed the first phase of the project with the implementation of GoldenSource’s enterprise data management platform. Now, almost two months later, it has kicked off the final part of the project—implementing BlackRock’s Aladdin platform. This is fresh off going

1 month ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Voice of the CTOLast year, WatersTechnology spoke with eight senior technologists from eight different tier-one banks. Those interviews were conducted on background to get an honest understanding of the challenges they were facing. Nearly all of those challenges still exist today—you can find those articles here.

1 month ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

We’ve got lots of news this week (always a good thing!). So before I waste more words, let’s jump right in. Announced this weekNomura acquires Macquarie’s asset management business for $1.8 billionNomura has agreed to acquire Macquarie’s US and European public asset management business for an all-cash purchase price of $1.8 billion, subject to closing adjustments. The agreement will see Nomura acquire 100% of stock in three Macquarie companies—Macquarie Management Holdings, Inc., a Delaware