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...you've found a bilingual blog, so please choose "English" or "German". The blog represents personal views on IT systems and consulting in the asset management and investment banking market and focuses predominantly but not exclusively on issues in German speaking countries, respectively countries with a German speaking sub-community (DE, AT, CH, LU, LI, BE, IT).

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

AIG Switzerland chooses Charles River for Compliance

This selection shows that Charles River can be used as a "compliance alone" tool and that this also is recognized by the market.

Unitech helped European Fund Services in building new IT architecture

This is a very interesting piece of information which highlights the history of the EFS acquisition by Société Générale in 2006 (see mergers & acquisitions consultant CIB Partners) and what has happened behind the scene. There is just one slight error: when SocGen took over EFS there was already a very powerful architecture in place in Luxembourg, which was one of the major reasons for the takeover (see also my other post here).

ARZ migriert von RPMS nach Odyssey

Diese Migration von RPMS nach Odyssey (see also in English) ist sicher eine der größeren, aber sicher nicht die letzte, hat Odyssey die Übernahme von RPMS von Reuters mit genau diesem Ziel im Kopf getätigt. Letztlich wird über kurz oder lang jeder RPMS-Kunde migrieren, denn irgendwann wird der Support für RPMS ablaufen - eine endlos lange Pflege von RPMS hat Odyssey sicher nicht geplant und rechnet sich auch nicht.