Articles by Victor Anderson
January 2017: Sticking to My Day Job
From Brexit to the US presidential race, nothing about 2016 was predictable.
Advent Quickly Comes of Age
SS&C Technologies' February 2016 acquisition of Advent Software raised numerous questions across the buy side, not least of which was how the acquisition might make Advent a better services and technology provider.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 49: Victor Anderson, Waters Editor-in-Chief
Dan and Victor discuss the biggest topics of 2017.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: All the Winners and Why they Won
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards luncheon was held at the May Fair Hotel in London on November 4.
BST Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: Nasdaq SMARTS
Nasdaq won the best market surveillance platform category at this year's BST Awards, thanks to its outstanding SMARTS offering, a product that has won numerous WatersTechnology awards over the years.
BST Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: UBS Delta
UBS Delta, a perennial winner at the BST Awards over the years, won this year's most prestigious category, the best overall technology provider for 2016.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Product for 2016—Commcise
The first of two categories decided by the Waters journalists, announced on the afternoon of the BST Awards luncheon in London, where the previous 29 winners were considered as potential recipients, goes to London-based startup Commcise, thanks to its…
BST Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: Electra Information Systems
Electra Information Systems won the best buy-side reconciliation platform at this year's Buy-Side Technology Awards, its third win in this category over the years.
BST Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: Fidessa
John Brazier speaks to Fidessa's Richard Hooke about Fidessa Sentinel's continued domination in the BST Awards, and the changes the vendor has in the pipeline for next year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Overall Technology Provider for 2016—UBS Delta
As has become a tradition in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, the final category of the 34 on offer and the second to be announced at this year’s November 4 awards luncheon held at the May Fair Hotel in London, is that of the technology provider of the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Service to the Industry Awards—BISAM, IHS Markit and RIMES Technologies
BST acknowledges three truly-innovative firms serving the buy side.
BST Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: BISAM & Natixis
BISAM, with its alliance partner Natixis Global Asset Management, won this year's best risk management initiative category, one of three wins for the New York-based firm.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The ability for fund administrators to deliver the quality and caliber of services expected by increasingly demanding buy-side firms is largely contingent on their technology—possessing industry-leading technology makes delivering reliable, accurate and…
BST Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: Ullink
Ullink wins this year's best low-latency trading network category in the Buy-Side technology Awards, thanks to its Nyfix network.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
UBS unseated Barclays in 2014 to claim the best broker-supplied tool category in the BST Awards, a feat that it repeated last year and again this year, bringing the Swiss bank’s total of wins in this category to six, thanks to its UBS Delta platform, a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best TCA Provider to the Buy Side—Quantitative Brokers
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA), the process by which the quality of brokers’ executions are measured, has, over the course of the last five years, risen to prominence, to the point now where it is one of the most important criteria buy-side firms…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Use of the Agile Methodology by a Technology Vendor—Confluence
Waters ran a two-part feature on the Agile software development methodology earlier this year, looking at how capital markets firms and technology providers use it to provide consistent, regular software updates demanded specifically by their end-users.
American Financial Technology Awards 2016 ─ All the Winners
At a dinner held in midtown Manhattan on Dec. 5, the winners of this year's AFTAs were announced.
The Buy-Side Technology Awards Turn 10
The Buy-Side Technology Awards, the annual awards that focus on the third-party technology community serving the global asset management industry, turned 10 this year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—BISAM
BISAM wins its second category of this year’s BST Awards, thanks to its Cognity risk management platform, which became part of the BISAM stable in the wake of its acquisition of risk management specialist FinAnalytica in March this year. Past recipients…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BISAM
Performance and attribution—ostensibly two sides of the same coin—are the two most important functions that buy-side firms need to manage in order to justify their existence.
December 2016: How Would You Like Your Eggs?
When opting for the Agile software development methodology, Victor says firms should think carefully about how to time their releases.
Participants Realize the Benefits of Utilitizing Reference Data
Firms are now recognizing the opportunities to collaborate and share the costs of managing data in a utility to deliver cleaner, more accurate and cheaper reference data.
Interview: Lifting the Hood on SmartStream's Reference Data Utility
Victor Anderson chats to Peter Moss, CEO of SmartStream's Reference Data Utility, about the project's premise and its benefits to industry participants.