Press Release
Charles River Partners with OTAS to Improve Trading Efficiency and Transparency for Buy-Side Firms
May 4, 2017
Boston – Charles River Development announced it has partnered with OTAS Technologies and incorporated OTAS’s global equity trading analytics in the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS). The partnership makes OTAS’s trade analytics available as a separately licensed add-in to Charles River’s portfolio management workspace and combined order and execution management system (OEMS).
“OTAS can be a real alpha generator,” said Lee Garf, VP, Product Management, Charles River Development. “It gives portfolio managers and traders real-time access to the best market intelligence and improves communication throughout the front office. Portfolio managers can monitor their trades, and traders can recognize opportunities sooner and respond more quickly to changing market conditions.”
“Incorporating advanced analytics from OTAS into the portfolio management and trading workflows provides actionable signals that support instant decision making and improve front office efficiency,” said Tom Doris, CEO of OTAS Technologies. “This provides constant insight into what’s happening with trades, which improves both transparency and productivity for buy-side firms.”
About OTAS Technologies
OTAS Technologies provides next-generation market analytics and trader intelligence to the world’s leading banks and institutions. It uses artificial intelligence and big data analysis to alert clients to opportunities and risks, in real-time and in plain English, allowing them to make faster and more informed trading decisions. Due to its open architecture and extensive partnership network, OTAS is seamlessly integrated into clients’ existing OMS, PMS or EMS, providing access to OTAS Apps and Alerts from within the trading workflow.
Founded in 2011, OTAS Technologies is headquartered in London, UK with offices in major financial centers around the world. For more information on OTAS, please visit us at otastech.com or follow us on Twitter @otastech.
About Charles River
Charles River provides an end-to-end solution to automate front and middle office investment management functions across asset classes on a single platform. Delivered as a hosted service, the solution improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk and lowers technology costs. Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in over 40 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking, and pension markets.