Temenos acquires Multifonds

Seems the market for software vendors continues to shrink. This is another heads turning acquisition, not long after SS&C bought Advent, although a magnitude smaller.

Barrington: The Global PA Report 2012

Yet another Barrington report on fund accounting systems ("Portfolio Accounting"is the preferred term there and explicitly used as a synonym). With Germany and Switzerland (2 out of 10 named countries that should cover the entire planet) one would expect that the systems with a significant footprint in German speaking countries would be included. However, I wasn't able to find neither Profidata nor Diamos (MultiFonds, SimCorp and Sungard are included). The majority of the systems seem to be from North America.

Interestingly, vendors like Murex (MX 3), Temenos (WealthManager) and Thomson Reuters (Portia) are included.

Nevertheless an extensive report and a must-have for anyone in the business.

Misys and Temenos agree key merger terms

Another big merger on the way: Misys, which just merged with Sophis not even a year ago, is looking to unite forces with Temenos. As with every merger I have seen in my life, both confirm that both flagship products ("BankFusion" and "T24") will be maintained. However, it will be interesting to see what will happen with other products in the portfolio, e.g. ActisBSP.

Financial Objects is now part of Temenos

Temenos, the vendor of the core banking system T24 has completed the acquisition of Financial Objects, a supplier of wealth and portfolio management software solutions.

Obviously Temenos is diversifying its portfolio of offerings and doesn't want to wait for organic growth and self-developed systems in that area.

Perhaps Tememos wants to merge Financial Objects' systems into its own wealth management module of T24...

Temenos expands German footprint with acquisition of ACTIS.BSP

Temenos, vendor of a core banking system named T24, has bought ACTIS.BSP, vendor of an interesting reference data system (with a WM interface). Besides the fact that this will certainly strengthen Temenos presence in German in general, it will also have an impact on the market for reference data systems in Germany.