Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: The Winners

This year's winners are out, with a few new names and some "surprises". Good to see that the number of categories did not increase once again (currently at 28). In case you are interested to compare to previous years, these are the results for 2012 and 2011.

Fund management: Wasting assets

This very interesting article shows the dynamic of the fund management market world wide, references to the latest acquisition - Blackrock purchases Barclays Global Investors (BGI) - and also gives an outlook of what may come. A must-read for everybody in the industry!

Standard Chartered Bank goes live on IGEFI’s MultiFonds Fund Accounting platform

As already indicated in a rumour post a while ago - now it's official: Another Asian based client (besides HSBC) has not only signed but has gone live with MultiFonds: Standard Chatered Bank..

IGEFI has its Asian head quarter and development department in Bangalore, India, which is run by Madame Van Ta, IGEFI's founder.

I believe that a great deal of future growth for IGEFI will come from Asia.

IT Spending in Financial Services: A Global Perspective Report Published by Celent

As BobsGuide, BankTech and Waters (amongst many others) report: Celent has released its survey on what financial institutions will spend for their IT.

The report does cover Northern America, Europe and Asia, but sources prediminantly cite the US only.