Showing posts with label SunGards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SunGards. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 March 2013

Polands Bank Pekao Selects SunGards Valdi

Warsaw, Poland (PRWEB) July 03, 2012

Bank Pekao S.A. (Bank Pekao), the Polish banking group and part of the UniCredit Group, has selected SunGards Valdi trading suite for connectivity between the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and the firms online trading platform and core banking system.

Bank Pekaos traders will use Valdi to help improve and monitor order flows and provide a sales trading service. The bank will also implement Valdis gateways to the WSE to link its core banking system and its online retail trading platform to the exchange.

Piotr Teleon, deputy head of Pekao Brokerage House, said, We have used SunGards solutions since the Warsaw Stock Exchange implemented the WARSET trading system in 2000. Now Valdi will help us move to the next stage of our development, support business strategies we may choose in the future and help us leverage the opportunities available on other developed trading venues.

Philippe Carr


Polands Bank Pekao Selects SunGards Valdi

Thursday, 28 March 2013

Columbia Pacific Advisors Selects SunGards Investran to Help Automate Partnership Accounting

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 20, 2011

Columbia Pacific Advisors (Columbia), a Seattle-based alternative investment advisor, has selected SunGards Investran to help automate partnership accounting across its investment portfolios. SunGards Investran is an award winning application suite that helps automate front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and other illiquid asset class investment firms.

Columbia chose Investran because it needed a solution that could accommodate its business growth without having to add additional staff. Investran will be used for deal management, investor relations, fund and investor accounting and flexible reporting. Its integrated solution suite helps eliminate disparate databases to help increase operational efficiency and achieve improved levels of scalability for growth. Columbia will access Investran through SunGards hosted Infinity* Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model.

Utilizing SunGards Investran on a SaaS delivery model will help us better focus on the business of investment management instead of having to worry about managing reams of spreadsheets and issues related to software hosting such as upgrades, data back-up and disaster recovery, said Schuyler Havens, managing director at Columbia Pacific Advisors. Investran also gives us a proven solution with a reputation for reliability.

Like many investment firms, Columbia is looking to respond to growth by centralizing its workflows and keeping its staff count level, said Lauren Iaslovits, chief operating officer for SunGards Investran business unit. Investran will provide Columbia with a fully integrated solution to help improve firm-wide efficiencies, reduce operational risks and streamline operations.

SunGard Financial Systems is pursuing a visionary initiative to transform some of the key functionality of its core systems into components creating software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solutions. Leading this initiative is Infinity, which uses a service-oriented architecture (SOA) development framework, offers a business process management platform (Infinity Process Platform) and a virtualized, on-demand delivery infrastructure.

About Columbia Pacific Advisors

Columbia Pacific Advisors is a premier alternative investment advisory firm located in Seattle, WA. The firm has deep international experience in real estate, public and private equity, distressed debt and special situation lending.

About SunGard Investran

SunGard Investran is an integrated application suite that automates front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and alternative investment firms. Investran helps improve business efficiencies to facilitate collaboration, support deal flow and automate accounting. Firms rely on Investrans integrated capabilities to help meet their needs in the entire investment life-cycle, including relationship management, reporting, monitoring, accounting, fund raising and deal pipeline management. For more information on Investran and SunGards portfolio of alternative investment solutions, visit http://www.sungard.com/investran/learnmore.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

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Columbia Pacific Advisors Selects SunGards Investran to Help Automate Partnership Accounting

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Warsaw Stock Exchange Selects SunGards Protegent and Valdi for Market Abuse Surveillance

Warsaw, Poland (PRWEB) September 24, 2012

The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), the securities and commodities exchange mandated to organize and manage the trading of securities in Poland, has selected SunGards Protegent compliance solution and Valdi electronic trading tools for real-time surveillance and monitoring of trading activity on the exchange. Protegent and Valdi will help enhance the WSEs ability to supervise members connected to its trading platforms and help improve its capability to manage market-making activity as well as detect potential errant and suspicious trading patterns.

A customer of SunGards trading solutions for more than 10 years, the WSE will use SunGards Protegent market abuse solution to help enhance its analysis of specific market conditions and trigger alerts in real time, helping the WSE comply with the Market Abuse Directive, including European Securities and Markets Authoritys (ESMA) 2012/122 Guidelines Systems and controls in an automated trading environment and Regulation (EU) No. 236/2012 for Short Selling. In addition, Valdis flashback function will allow the WSE to analyze historical market situations by rebuilding the order book at any point in time, while its historical data will provide insight into trading patterns. Users will be able to analyze orders and trading patterns across individual or multiple asset classes and trading venues via graphical displays and a rules and reports library.

SunGards Valdi will give the WSEs surveillance teams a detailed, real-time view of market data and trading activity regardless of the connectivity tools used by WSE members.

Adam Maciejewski, member of the management board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, said, Surveillance tools are an absolute requirement as stock exchanges around the world seek to ensure fair and orderly markets. The WSE selected SunGards Protegent because it is an efficient, proven and system-agnostic solution that complements our existing arsenal of market protection capabilities. Valdi will help the WSE improve our ability to monitor exchange trading activity and give our surveillance team enhanced access to real-time data, helping them identify trading patterns that might reveal market abuse.

Philippe Carr


Warsaw Stock Exchange Selects SunGards Protegent and Valdi for Market Abuse Surveillance

Thursday, 24 January 2013

SL Private Equity Fund Administration Services Selects SunGards Investran for all Private Equity Third Party Fund Administration Services

London (PRWEB) November 20, 2012

Third-party-administrator SL Private Equity Fund Administration Services (SLPE) has selected SunGards Investran to help offer a higher level of administration and reporting, including timely and detailed information covering all investments, performance and risk exposure, for its global network of clients. SunGards Investran is an award winning solution for private equity and alternative investment firms that helps automate front-, middle- and back-office processes and supports the entire investment lifecycle. SLPE is one of the first third party administrators head-quartered in Europe to offer PE fund administration services leveraging the latest version of Investran.

SunGards Investran will help SLPE analyze, manage and disseminate large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data. As an integrated front-to-back solution suite, Investran will facilitate internal collaboration, support investor relations and automate accounting, thereby helping improve overall operational efficiency and accountability. SLPEs full range of clients will be fully supported by Investran, including GPs such as venture capital funds, real estate and private equity real estate, and LPs such as funds of funds, funds of private equity funds, pension and endowment funds, family offices, and institutional investors. SLPE will access Investran through SunGards hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)* delivery model.

Providing the best quality of services to our own clients is a principle we value above all others. Combined with our expert fund administration teams, we rely on the use of state-of-the-art technology and we chose Investran for its depth and quality of reporting, operational efficiency, reliability as well as its track record of success, said Negin Bemanzadeh, managing director at SLPE. In addition, utilizing SunGards SaaS delivery model will help us better focus on the business of servicing the complete and complex needs of our clients around the globe.

Lauren Iaslovits, chief operating officer for SunGards Investran business unit said, SLPE joins a growing number of third-party-administrators looking to improve their fund administration and reporting practices and we look forward to supporting its evolving business by helping improve firm-wide efficiencies, reduce operational risks and streamline operations.


SunGard Financial Systems is pursuing a visionary initiative to transform some of the key functionality of its core systems into components creating software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solutions. Leading this initiative is Infinity, which uses a service-oriented architecture (SOA) development framework, offers a business process management platform (Infinity Process Platform) and a virtualized, on-demand delivery infrastructure.

About SL Private Equity Fund Administration Services Ltd

With a fundamental client-centric focus and philosophy, SL Private Equity Fund Administration Services combine state-of-the-art technology and expert fund administration teams to create best-practice processes and systems, providing full fund administration services across the PE universe and ensuring that clients funds comply with the appropriate regulatory, financial and tax reporting requirements. SL PE help private equity funds, family offices and pension funds achieve a much higher level of reporting functionality, including timely and granular information covering all investments, performance and risk exposure at the utmost level of transparency; furthermore, SL PE constantly monitor industry issues and keep managers and institutional investors informed about changing guidelines to help minimize operational and reputational risk.

About SunGards Investran

SunGards Investran is an integrated application suite that automates front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and alternative investment firms. Investran helps improve business efficiencies to facilitate collaboration, support deal flow and automate accounting. Firms rely on Investrans integrated capabilities to help meet their needs in the entire investment life-cycle, including relationship management, reporting, monitoring, accounting, fund raising and deal pipeline management. For more information on Investran and SunGards portfolio of alternative investment solutions, visit http://www.sungard.com/investran/learnmore.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the worlds leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and is ranked 480 on the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and Investran are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.


SL Private Equity Fund Administration Services Selects SunGards Investran for all Private Equity Third Party Fund Administration Services

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. Goes Live with SunGards Protegent for Social Media and Website Surveillance

Marion, IA (PRWEB) December 11, 2012

Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. (Berthel Fisher), a brokerdealer founded and headquartered in Iowa since 1985, has gone live with SunGards Protegent Social Media Surveillance for regulatory compliance and monitoring of its advisors online activity.

Financial firms use of social networking sites to promote their businesses can present significant risks if the content violates internal communication and regulatory policies. SunGards Protegent Social Media Surveillance helps firms archive, monitor, report and filter content posted on social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help alleviate this risk.

Vicki Reighard-Kean, chief compliance officer at Berthel Fisher, said, SunGards strong track record in compliance solutions, as well as its ability to offer surveillance for both social media and websites, gives us confidence that we will be able to comply with the latest regulations.

Steve Sabin, chief operating officer of SunGards Protegent business unit, said, Advisors need to be able to reach their clients wherever they are, including on social networks and the web. SunGards Protegent provides tools to help broker dealers participate in those sites without creating regulatory and reputational risks.

About Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc.

Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. (BFCFS), headquartered in Marion, Iowa, is a pioneer in the independent broker/dealer industry. BFCFS offers investment banking services and a full-range of investment products and investment advisory services to investors, as well as a complete line of insurance, banking, and lending services in all 50 states through 385 Representative offices. Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Berthel Fisher & Company, a financial holding company. Berthel Fisher & Company owns Securities Management and Research, Inc. (SM&R) a broker/dealer with 300 Representatives as well as BFC Planning, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor.

For more information about Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. visit http://www.berthel.com.

About SunGards Protegent

SunGard’s Protegent is a suite of solutions that help automate financial institutions compliance processes. It helps give financial institutions transparency into their data while helping them to enforce and document their compliance policies and procedures. Protegents solutions cover social media review, personal trading oversight, market abuse, Reg NMS, Order Audit Trail System (OATS), and transaction supervision and surveillance review. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com/protegent.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the worlds leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and is ranked 480 on the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and Protegent are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.


Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. Goes Live with SunGards Protegent for Social Media and Website Surveillance