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Resolvr
Resolvr
Transforming financial management with streamlined efficiency and compliance.
Resolvr streamlines labor-intensive tasks and oversees expenditure management. By eliminating the need for paper, spreadsheets, and PDF workflows, Resolvr enhances operational efficiency. Digital data streams combined with artificial intelligence contribute to improved profit margins for our clients. The platform offers communication tools for vendors and team members, fostering productive workflows. Gone are the days of slow, error-prone manual processes that burdened organizations. Additionally, Resolvr guarantees that expense allocations and distributions of client funds comply with The Dodd-Frank Act. With its ability to integrate seamlessly with any client fund software or platform via APIs, Resolvr simplifies operations. As a result, banks can significantly cut down on manual tasks, potentially saving millions of dollars annually. This transformation not only enhances productivity but also sets a new standard for financial management practices.
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Eze Investment Suite
SS&C Eze
Transform your investment operations with seamless, tailored efficiency.
Uncover premier applications that provide an all-encompassing investment experience, catering to the operational needs of your entire organization. The Eze Investment Suite acts as a holistic tool for a complete investment journey, covering all asset classes comprehensively. Its flexible and intuitive design enables users to tailor their views, workspaces, and dashboards while adhering to standardized workflows that are readily adopted by the firm. Users are empowered to evaluate data at multiple levels, ensuring they obtain the exact information necessary for quick and well-informed decision-making processes. By employing fully integrated straight-through processing, you can develop a customized investment environment that aligns with your specific requirements. The Eze Investment Suite boasts an open, vendor-agnostic architecture that ensures smooth connectivity with nearly any external platform or internal system available. Bolstered by adaptable APIs and a wide range of on-demand interfaces, the suite streamlines the integration of various platforms and counterparties, fostering enhanced collaboration throughout your organization. This all-encompassing strategy guarantees that every aspect of investment operations is efficiently organized and managed, paving the way for improved operational excellence. Ultimately, the Eze Investment Suite not only simplifies processes but also significantly enhances the overall investment experience.
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Novus
Novus Partners
Unlock investment insights with advanced data optimization tools.
Harness your potential by initiating with data, as Novus collaborates with fund administrators, custodians, prime brokers, and portfolio management systems to digitize and optimize the information supplied by managers. Alternatively, you have the option to keep control through self-uploading, regardless of how often you wish to do so or the level of transparency you require. With advanced reconciliation technology, Novus guarantees the precision and timely access to vital portfolio data. The platform is skilled at detecting and resolving data inconsistencies, honing portfolio information to cater to your specific preferences. You can categorize, label, and analyze your data using customized tags, while also incorporating alternative data sources such as ESG metrics. Moreover, Novus enables comparisons of public filings from a wide variety of managers, thus delivering profound insights into market behaviors. Explore Novus’ proprietary indices to monitor the most coveted hedge fund stocks, further refining your investment strategies. By utilizing these comprehensive tools, you can deepen your understanding of the investment landscape and make well-informed choices that align with your financial goals. Ultimately, this empowers you to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market.
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Theorem
Theorem Technologies
Effortless post-trade processing and data management redefined.
Theorem serves as a comprehensive solution for post-trade processing and data management, allowing users to effortlessly engage with aggregated reporting, oversee trade workflows, and carry out matching and affirmation through an intuitive online interface that negates the necessity for local software installations or technical support. With Theorem, you have the ability to integrate data from brokers, exchanges, trading platforms, or your internal systems, customizing the management experience to fit your specific needs. The platform’s streamlined setup enables you to either take advantage of its full range of features or selectively employ the tools that best serve your current objectives. As soon as a trade is executed, Theorem ensures accurate post-trade processing by effectively allocating trades and facilitating matching with executing and clearing counterparties. Furthermore, Theorem unifies data, analytics, and insights from multiple brokers, accounts, and portfolios, providing you with actionable intelligence and endowing stakeholders with advanced analytics alongside clear and understandable risk reports. By optimizing these processes, Theorem not only enhances decision-making across organizations but also fosters a culture of informed strategic planning and operational efficiency. This holistic approach positions users to navigate the complexities of trading with greater confidence and insight.
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Obsidian SmartDocs
Obsidian Suite
Streamline compliance and enhance client relationships effortlessly today!
Easily complete smart web forms with pertinent information and quickly generate NDAs, term sheets, subscription agreements, KYC documents, and beyond. Effortlessly integrate with Obsidian Suite’s advanced client management database to oversee all facets of client compliance. Streamline your processes with our convenient electronic sign-off option, which works in conjunction with the powerful features of DocuSign. Benefit from instant document status notifications and thorough client engagement tracking through automated CRM updates. Obsidian’s versatile client portals are designed to meet the needs of a wide array of clients, such as institutional investors, affluent individuals, and professional firms. This suite offers exceptional flexibility in client communication, tailored specifically for various investment management companies. Obsidian SmartDocs emerges as a leading choice for electronic subscriptions and KYC documentation in the investment domain. By automating and refining the management of investor information across different platforms, SmartDocs enables investment firms to experience rapid growth while improving their operational effectiveness. In addition, the platform’s intuitive design guarantees that all users can navigate and access its functionalities with ease, fostering a more productive environment for collaboration. As a result, Obsidian helps firms not only to stay compliant but also to maintain strong relationships with their clients.
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Sentieo
Sentieo
Streamline research, uncover insights, empower your team today!
Address the issue of information overload with our cutting-edge AI-powered research platform, which streamlines the search process, allowing you to dedicate more time to thorough analysis. Through the use of state-of-the-art natural language processing and automation, your research endeavors are significantly enhanced. Our collaborative Notebook feature promotes seamless teamwork, leading to a more integrated workflow among team members. By leveraging both linguistic and alternative data, you can uncover valuable insights that may be missed by others in the field. Effectively manage information overload as we sift through millions of data points to spotlight the essential information necessary for maintaining a competitive edge in various markets. Sentieo is crafted to assist you in uncovering alpha-generating insights from a wide array of sources, such as news articles, regulatory filings, market trends, historical data, documents, notes, financial fundamentals, and projections, ensuring your team remains interconnected throughout. With all your research tools brought together in one comprehensive workspace, Sentieo unveils insights that can substantially improve your team's performance and decision-making processes. Ultimately, the platform not only streamlines your research efforts but also provides strategic insights that drive success and innovation in your projects. By integrating advanced technology with user-friendly features, Sentieo empowers teams to navigate complex data landscapes with confidence and clarity.
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Pinnakl CRM
Pinnakl
Tailored CRM for hedge funds: Elevate your success.
Our CRM system is uniquely designed to cater specifically to the workflows of hedge funds, ensuring that its features are precisely aligned with the demands of contemporary sales, marketing, and investor relations. We proudly serve a diverse clientele, ranging from newly established funds and family offices to large multi-billion dollar institutional hedge funds. Embracing cutting-edge technology, our CRM is tailored to meet the evolving needs of today's financial landscape, making it an indispensable tool for success.
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Risk Shell
ABC Quant
Revolutionize portfolio management with advanced, multi-asset risk solutions.
Risk Shell stands out as a highly advanced and thorough platform for risk management and portfolio construction in today’s market. This all-encompassing analytical tool provides cutting-edge features for risk management, portfolio optimization, accounting, and customer relationship management, specifically tailored for hedge fund of funds and diverse investment portfolios. Boasting access to over 500,000 financial instruments, including alternative investments, CTAs, mutual funds, ETFs, and global equities, Risk Shell is adept at creating a wide range of multi-asset portfolios. Its capabilities make it an indispensable resource for investors seeking to navigate complex financial landscapes effectively.
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Octopus Moving
Octopus Moving CRM
Revolutionize your moving business with seamless online solutions.
The online platform you provide, featuring streamlined web forms and a user-friendly account management section, captures the core identity of your company, ensuring that customers feel both secure and appreciated through its thoughtful design and aesthetic appeal. It includes intuitive booking tools specifically designed for the moving sector, equipped with features like sales and lead management, email communication, chat support, SMS notifications, and invoicing functionalities. With engaging forms and a responsive chatbot, user interaction is enhanced, while a visually attractive landing page serves as a foundation for effective advertising tests. Keep your clientele up to date with prompt SMS alerts and increase your revenue with an automated booking system. If you aim to improve your conversion rates, consider delighting your customers with a seamless and integrated booking experience. Our meticulously crafted web forms are tailored to your moving business, ensuring they are mobile-friendly, visually appealing, and well-organized. Furthermore, our platform supports sales and client management, streamlining processes for invoices, emails, SMS, and automation. Through the integration of gamified and elegantly designed web forms, we strive to build trust and credibility with your users. Our goal is to help you enhance your conversion rates while offering innovative software solutions for crate rentals and supply deliveries. Seize the opportunity to revolutionize your business with our all-encompassing tools, and watch as your operational efficiency and customer satisfaction soar.
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Broadridge Revport
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Transform financial operations: streamline, automate, and grow effortlessly.
Enhance your operational efficiency significantly, cut down accounts receivable processing time by half, and reduce resource costs with our innovative revenue and expense calculation platform. Developed by Broadridge, Revport simplifies your billing and invoicing tasks while providing a comprehensive overview that enables a focus on growth. Our state-of-the-art Revenue and Expense Management system automates finance workflows based on established rules and effectively manages revenue accruals and reversals, resulting in fewer errors and improved productivity. CFOs can effortlessly oversee all elements of revenue and expense management, including fee billing, accruals, invoice validation, and revenue sharing, all presented in an intuitive interface. Additionally, manage risk and credit exposures effectively by identifying and prioritizing payment obligations and optimizing the timing of cash outflows. Increase cash flow and capital utilization through real-time aggregation and visibility into cash activities across all business units, promoting proactive financial management. Ultimately, Revport equips organizations with the tools to make strategic decisions that encourage sustained growth and operational efficiency while adapting to evolving market conditions. By leveraging these capabilities, companies can streamline their financial operations and enhance their overall performance.
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Kase StatWare
Kase and Company
Transform your trading with automated, precise analysis tools.
Kase StatWare represents an advanced suite of technical analysis indicators, crafted by the esteemed market technician and former energy trader, Cynthia A. Kase. This cutting-edge collection of self-optimizing tools is tailored to assist both seasoned professionals and novice traders in developing an accurate and methodical approach to discretionary trading and risk management. By automatically adjusting stops for optimal outcomes, traders can let their profits grow while effectively minimizing losses. The system adapts to fluctuations in range, volatility, and risk, which lessens the need for frequent manual adjustments. Furthermore, it produces color-coded entry signals by evaluating various elements, including momentum and bar patterns, which simplifies the signal generation process. Traders can examine several timeframes and filter signals to increase their accuracy, ultimately leading to more strategic trading choices. Built upon rigorous statistical and mathematical foundations, these indicators are fundamentally guided by probabilities, making them an invaluable resource for traders aiming to enhance their trading outcomes. This combination of automation and analytical rigor makes Kase StatWare an essential tool for anyone serious about trading success.
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Kurtosys
Kurtosys
Empowering seamless investment reporting with secure, automated solutions.
Kurtosys offers a secure, cloud-driven platform for digital reporting, aimed at simplifying the delivery of investment data and insights. With our solutions, users can enjoy a seamless experience through fully automated, robust systems for investment reporting, client portals, and worldwide investment websites, ensuring efficiency and ease of use for all stakeholders involved.
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Perfona
OpEff Technologies
Streamline your investment management with our all-in-one solution.
This comprehensive online platform is meticulously crafted to manage every aspect of an investment management firm, featuring a cutting-edge portfolio management system that functions entirely in the cloud and offers a wide array of capabilities. It integrates tools for front, middle, and back office activities, alongside investor relations, operations, and treasury management, all within a single cohesive interface. By entrusting Perfona to us, you can maintain a well-organized operation while minimizing potential operational risks. Are you at a stage where upgrading your IT infrastructure has become vital for enhancing both resilience and confidence in your business processes? The OpEff IT team is poised to partner with you to efficiently create customized applications, develop and implement disaster recovery testing strategies, and set up robust cyber security measures. Moreover, our specialized knowledge allows us to cater to your specific business requirements, ensuring a more tailored solution to your IT challenges. We understand that every organization has unique demands, and we are committed to delivering exceptional service that meets those needs effectively.
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Consistently ensure precise allocations by automatically calculating and implementing sharing percentages solely for funds permitted to incur costs. Enhance the efficiency of accounts payable throughout the organization, allowing for effortless access to detailed expense reports. Utilizing EAS can help avoid penalties associated with misallocations and streamline allocation policies, ensuring that all expenses are in accordance with fund agreements and disclosures. The traditional approach to distributing expenses among various funds tends to be convoluted and ambiguous. Moreover, complex allocations done through Excel often carry hidden inaccuracies due to a lack of stringent controls. Such misallocation issues can pose significant risks for asset managers, potentially causing delays in reimbursements or improper allocations that could compromise their financial stability. By adopting automated solutions, organizations can greatly improve both the accuracy and transparency of their expense management processes, ultimately fostering a more reliable financial environment. Furthermore, this transition not only mitigates the risk of errors but also enhances overall operational efficiency, enabling asset managers to focus on more strategic initiatives.
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OpenGamma
OpenGamma
Revolutionize financial management, boost efficiency, and ensure success.
Discover an advanced approach to managing cash and collateral that allows you to reduce performance gaps, enhance operational efficiency, and eliminate the financial setbacks that impact your organization. Safeguard against credit and liquidity risks by ensuring that you allocate the right margin levels. Improve your overall returns by accurately predicting margin costs and identifying potential savings. Increase your profitability by revealing chances to decrease both margin and financing costs. Put our reinvestment strategies into action through efficient automated processes. OpenGamma equips you with essential tools to navigate the complexities of your existing systems, adapt to changing regulations, and strengthen your control—all while maintaining cost efficiency. Leverage OpenGamma’s cohesive workflows to boost operational productivity, seize opportunities for returns, and encourage sustainable growth. By adopting these cutting-edge solutions, you can revolutionize your approach to financial management and pave the way for enduring success, ensuring your organization remains competitive in a rapidly changing financial landscape.
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Deep Pool
Deep Pool Financial Solutions
Transform your investment operations with seamless, innovative solutions.
Enhance the efficiency of your core business functions by utilizing a holistic platform specifically crafted for investor servicing, aimed at fund administrators and investment managers alike. Global fund administrators and managers, whether dealing with offshore or onshore hedge funds, private equity vehicles, real estate investments, or retail funds, trust ManTra to facilitate the growth and management of their operations. NTAS provides advanced investor servicing tailored to the needs of fund administrators and managers, ensuring increased operational efficiency, exceptional client service, and enhanced transparency and security. PENTAS offers a comprehensive automation solution for the investor lifecycle, serving both traditional and hybrid private equity funds, enabling you to refine every aspect of the limited partner investment process for unparalleled effectiveness, oversight, and customer service. KURE streamlines and automates your AML compliance as well as FATCA/CRS reporting, backed by a robust regulatory framework to guarantee that your compliance actions are both effective and dependable. By adopting these cutting-edge solutions, you can elevate your business's operational capabilities and adapt to the continuously changing requirements of the financial sector, setting a new benchmark for success. Embrace the future of financial services with confidence and innovation.
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AdvisorWare
SS&C Technologies
Optimize fund operations with precision and efficiency effortlessly.
Designed specifically for hedge funds, private equity, and funds of funds, AdvisorWare® delivers a robust platform that integrates portfolio management, accounting, and partnership accounting functionalities. This system is adept at addressing the complexities faced by alternative investment funds as they navigate global investment, trading, and management hurdles, while also catering to their rigorous requirements for financial, tax, partnership, and allocation reporting. With an intuitive interface, it enhances operational efficiency by allowing seamless management of diverse instruments and corporate actions, all while safeguarding data integrity. By incorporating proactive automated exception handling, workflow management, and reconciliation features, it effectively mitigates operational risks. Furthermore, AdvisorWare® fulfills tax and reporting obligations across various jurisdictions, offering fully automated tax allocation for partners, thus ensuring compliance and user-friendliness. With its extensive capabilities, AdvisorWare® serves as an indispensable resource for fund managers aiming to optimize their operations and enhance the precision of their reporting processes. In a landscape where accuracy and efficiency are paramount, utilizing a tool like AdvisorWare® can make a significant difference in managing complex fund dynamics.
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FINCAD
Numerix
Empower your investments with precise, simplified analytics solutions.
FINCAD offers top-tier analytics that equip you with essential tools to make informed investment choices with confidence. By simplifying your calculations of risk and return, you can easily manage the valuation and analysis of both derivatives and cash instruments. Our outstanding libraries include a diverse selection of predefined models, calculators, and workbooks, which significantly boost the precision, adaptability, and effectiveness of evaluating derivatives and fixed income products like never before. Furthermore, our solutions come with the backing of a team of experienced technical professionals who are committed to your success. The complexities involved in valuing intricate derivatives and cash instruments can be overwhelming, as many providers do not adequately address exotic options, and developing custom solutions in-house may lead to high costs, increased complexity, and greater execution risks. Therefore, utilizing our expertise enables you to tackle these challenges with greater efficiency and peace of mind. With FINCAD, you can turn potential obstacles into opportunities for growth and success in your investment strategy.
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LSEG AlphaDesk
LSEG Data & Analytics
Transform your buy-side operations with seamless, real-time efficiency.
Boost your operational effectiveness with LSEG AlphaDesk, a cloud-based order management and portfolio management system specifically designed for buy-side firms. Effortlessly connect a variety of multi-vendor data streams and electronic trading systems, while maintaining productive partnerships with custodians, prime brokers, and fund administrators. Centralize all orders within a single platform to facilitate real-time monitoring of portfolio exposure across over 100 customizable fields. Enjoy control and access from any location with its mobile-optimized interface. Celebrated for its outstanding features, LSEG AlphaDesk offers a prize-winning solution that accommodates multi-asset class and multi-currency order management and portfolio supervision, complete with built-in risk and compliance functionalities aimed at streamlining your operations. This advanced platform stands as a crucial asset for any buy-side entity aspiring to enhance its operational efficiency and drive better investment decisions. Moreover, its user-friendly design ensures that teams can collaborate effectively, making it a pivotal tool for success in today's competitive financial landscape.
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Elysys Wealth
Elysys
Transform your financial operations with innovative, scalable solutions.
Why choose proprietary systems when the latest ERP from Microsoft boasts exceptional features in financial accounting, banking, security, and technology? Elysys leverages the powerful Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, offering enhanced capabilities and scalability that particularly shine in specialized treasury management applications. Users can effortlessly create tailored dashboards and reports for a variety of financial or investment data, allowing for detailed exploration of individual transactions. This system not only aggregates financial and non-financial assets across multiple portfolios and asset classes but also supports financial consolidation for groups at different organizational levels. Over the last 15 years, we have launched a comprehensive array of modules covering a wide spectrum of investment forms, ranging from traditional paper investments and money markets to derivatives, structured products, and alternative investments such as private equity, public equities, funds, bonds, options, futures, forwards, and swaps. Our dedication to innovation and excellence empowers our clients with the latest tools and resources to effectively manage their financial operations, ensuring they stay ahead in a dynamic market. Ultimately, the combination of Microsoft’s robust platform and Elysys’s innovative solutions offers unmatched advantages for financial management.
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FinlogiK
FinlogiK
Revolutionizing investments with innovative tools for every investor.
Finlogik is transforming the investment landscape by providing innovative and cost-effective online resources and automated solutions that allow both conventional firms and self-directed investors to enhance their operations while staying attuned to the disruptive changes in the financial sector. In collaboration with a process-driven asset manager, Finlogik enables users to develop and manage effective investment strategies that are both economical and suitable for retail and institutional investors alike. Through the use of sophisticated analytical dashboards, clients can access benchmarking tools, detailed reporting features, and powerful data processing capabilities that facilitate the assessment of portfolio risk, exposure, and overall performance. Finlogik’s versatility extends to managing a diverse range of financial instruments, from simple publicly traded securities to complex over-the-counter products, thereby encompassing stocks, futures, options, fixed income, money market instruments, foreign exchange, and fund units. This extensive adaptability allows clients to confidently and efficiently navigate the intricate landscape of financial markets while making informed decisions. Ultimately, Finlogik stands out as a vital partner for investors seeking to thrive in an ever-evolving investment environment.
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Hedge Fund Software streamlines the management of distribution allocations for investors, prepares tax return schedule K-1s, issues distribution checks, calculates broker commissions, and generates comprehensive management reports. It also manages the distribution of management fees and partnership expenses among investors effectively. Moreover, users can create tailored, professional-quality color investor statements that prominently display the partnership's logo, name, address, and contact details. Customized allocation formulas can be applied to factor in guaranteed returns, high watermarks, and other incentive-based components. The latest version for Windows integrates smoothly within an office computer network and provides internet-based remote access for convenience. Additionally, the Fund Investment Tracker Software oversees hedge fund portfolios spanning diverse asset classes, such as stocks, bonds, and commodities. Its spreadsheet-style layout allows fund managers to quickly evaluate their investment statuses, showcasing vital information like symbol, description, quantity, total cost, average cost, current price, market value, and gain or loss percentage for a clear financial performance overview. This combination of features significantly enhances the management process, promoting more effective decision-making and streamlined reporting. Ultimately, these tools support investors in navigating the complexities of hedge fund operations with greater ease and efficiency.
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InfoReach TMS
InfoReach
Unlock seamless multi-asset trading with unparalleled customization options.
The InfoReach Trade Management System (TMS) is a highly adaptable, broker-independent platform designed for multi-asset trading, which integrates vital tools, technologies, and access to global markets into a unified system. It enhances the efficiency of pre-trade, at-trade, and post-trade analyses while offering pre-configured algorithms from a variety of brokers, real-time interactive charts, position tracking, and the capabilities for multi-asset and portfolio trading, as well as order management and FIX connectivity, all within a comprehensive multi-broker buy-side order and execution management framework. Through the InfoReach TMS, traders benefit from rapid, low-latency connections to over 140 brokers, ECNs, MTFs, exchanges, ATSs, dark pools, and other major sources of global liquidity, thus facilitating smooth electronic and automated trading across equities, options, futures, forex, and fixed income markets. Furthermore, the system's outstanding flexibility allows for customization to align with the distinct requirements of individual trading desks, ensuring that users can tailor their experience to include only the features they find essential. This level of customization, combined with its broad range of functionalities, solidifies the InfoReach TMS as a crucial resource in the contemporary trading landscape. As a result, traders can navigate the complexities of the market with greater ease and precision, ultimately enhancing their overall trading performance.
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FXCM
FXCM
Empowering traders with innovative tools and expert education.
FXCM distinguishes itself as a leading provider of online foreign exchange (FX) trading, CFD trading, and related services. Our focus is on ensuring customer satisfaction, which is achieved through specialized expertise, careful attention to detail, and unwavering commitment in every engagement. Founded in 1999, we aim to empower traders worldwide by providing access to the largest and most liquid market using innovative trading tools and expert educators, all within a framework of strict financial standards to guarantee a superior online trading experience. Clients enjoy benefits such as mobile trading functionality, one-click order execution, and the convenience of trading directly from real-time charts. In addition, FXCM offers a wide range of educational courses on FX trading, along with a comprehensive suite of trading tools, exclusive data, and premium resources. Moreover, FXCM Pro caters to retail brokers, small hedge funds, and emerging market banks, granting them access to wholesale execution and liquidity while boosting their trading capabilities. Furthermore, our continuous investment in technology and education underscores our commitment to helping traders navigate the complexities of the financial markets with confidence. Ultimately, FXCM is unwavering in its dedication to creating an environment that enables traders to flourish and achieve their financial goals.
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The Archway Platform
SEI Family Office Services
Transforming wealth management through seamless integration and collaboration.
In the early 2000s, SEI Family Office Services introduced an innovative wealth management platform designed to provide family offices and financial institutions with a more integrated solution compared to fragmented, single-function technology options. This platform, referred to as the Archway Platform, has demonstrated remarkable durability and flexibility, as it simplifies intricate processes through the integration of key accounting, investment data aggregation, and reporting functionalities into a unified system. Built on a strong general ledger, this state-of-the-art technology facilitates the generation of accounting records across a diverse array of business activities, including traditional and alternative investment transactions, cash flows, bill payments, fee assessments, and capital distributions, guaranteeing that accounting, investment, and administrative teams work in harmony within a single interface. Additionally, the Archway Platform's comprehensive reporting features empower users to leverage detailed underlying data to produce extensive and insightful financial reports, thereby enhancing both decision-making and strategic planning. As a result, its thoughtful design not only boosts operational efficiency but also encourages collaboration among different teams, establishing it as an essential tool for professionals in the wealth management sector. Its lasting impact on the industry is a testament to the foresight and dedication of its creators.