The Charles River Partner Ecosystem

Technology

Snowflake

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Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud. Learn more: www.snowflake.com.

Portfolio & Risk Analytics

MSCI

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MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process. Learn more: www.msci.com.

Data

FactSet

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FactSet (NYSE: FDS | NASDAQ: FDS) delivers superior content, analytics, and flexible technology to help more than 170,000 users see and seize opportunity sooner. We give investment professionals the edge to outperform with informed insights, workflow solutions across the portfolio lifecycle, and industry-leading support from dedicated specialists. We’re proud to have been recognized with multiple awards for our analytical and data-driven solutions, with the distinction of having been recently added to the S&P 500 and repeatedly scored 100 by the Human Rights Campaign® Corporate Equality Index for our LGBTQ+ inclusive policies and practices. Subscribe to our thought leadership blog to get fresh insight delivered daily at insight.factset.com. Learn more at factset.com

Technology

Microsoft

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Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Learn more: microsoft.com.

Portfolio & Risk Analytics

Axioma

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SimCorp is a provider of industry-leading integrated investment management solutions for the global buy side. Founded in 1971, with more than 3,000 employees across five continents, SimCorp is a truly global technology leader that empowers more than half of the world’s top 100 financial companies through its integrated platform, services, and partner ecosystem. Learn more: simcorp.com.

The Axioma analytics suite provides portfolio construction and risk management solutions to a global client base which includes asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds and wealth managers. The offering comprises an advanced financial optimizer, a comprehensive suite of factor risk models, performance attribution, backtesting and stress testing tools.

Data

RIMES

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Rimes is an award-winning data management specialist that truly understands the challenges faced by its clients. It supports over 350 asset managers, owners, servicers and banks in 45 countries including 60 of the 100 largest global asset managers by AUM and 9 of the top 10 asset servicers in the world. The company is headquartered in New York with 14 offices worldwide. Learn more: rimes.com

Technology

FundGuard

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FundGuard is a next-generation SaaS platform for investment management and administration, powered by AI. Their offering helps asset managers and fund administrators to manage mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance products, and pension funds, supporting digital transformation, operations automation, AI-based insights, resiliency, and migration to the cloud. FundGuard is backed by strategic partners including Citi and State Street, venture firms Blumberg Capital, LionBird Ventures, and Team8 Capital among others, as well as industry executives Heidi Miller, Jack Klinck, Jay Mandelbaum and others. Learn more at www.fundguard.com

Primary Markets

S&P Global Market Intelligence

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At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction. S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

Trading, Data and Analytics

Octaura

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Octaura is a leading provider of electronic trading, data, and analytics solutions for syndicated loans. Founded as an independent company in 2022, Octaura represents a significant milestone in the advancement of trade modernization for these markets through common operational criteria, automation across pre- and post-trade life cycles, improved ease in transactions and advanced data and analytics. To learn more, visit octaura.com.

Primary Markets

DirectBooks

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DirectBooks leverages its technology expertise and market knowledge to optimize global financing markets. We are simplifying the primary issuance process for fixed income by streamlining communications workflows for underwriters and institutional investors. DirectBooks was formed by 9 global banks, consisting of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Barclays (NYSE:BCS), BNP Paribas (FR:BNP), Citi (NYSE:C), Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC). A complete list of participating underwriting firms can be found on our website. Learn more at DirectBooks.com

Liquidity & Trading

MarketAxess

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MarketAxess operates a leading, institutional electronic trading platform delivering expanded liquidity opportunities, improved execution quality and significant cost savings across global fixed-income markets. A global network of over 1,800 firms, including the world’s leading asset managers and institutional broker-dealers, leverages MarketAxess’ patented trading technology to efficiently trade bonds. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading™ marketplace is regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets, creating a unique liquidity pool for a broad range of credit market participants. Drawing on its deep data and analytical resources, MarketAxess provides automated trading solutions, market data products and a range of pre- and post-trade services. MarketAxess is headquartered in New York and has offices in London, Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, São Paulo, Hong Kong and Singapore. Learn more: marketaxess.com.

Wealth Management

Advisor360°

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Based in Weston, Massachusetts, Advisor360° is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that builds, integrates and delivers technology for wealth management firms. The company’s proprietary Unified Data Fabric™ (UDF) synthesizes complex and disparate data streams into one platform for a highly sophisticated wealth planning solution. Today, 3 million households with $1 trillion in assets under advisement benefit from the integrated Advisor360° experience. Whether the enterprise back office, the client-facing advisor or the individual investor, Advisor360° brings clarity to all stakeholders seeking a holistic approach to managing household wealth. Advisor360° launched as an independent company in 2019 and was named the second largest fintech company in Massachusetts by The Boston Business Journal in 2021. For more information, please visit advisor360.com.

Liquidity & Trading

FX HedgePool

FX HedgePool is the world’s leading peer-to-peer matching service for institutional foreign exchange transactions. Since its launch in January 2020, FX HedgePool has facilitated over $5 trillion in matched foreign exchange trades for a network of 40+ investment managers and banks. FX HedgePool helps institutional investors eliminate market impact and information leakage, reduce operational overhead and risk, and achieve consistent and transparent execution in all market conditions. Learn more at fxhedgepool.com

Middle Office

Broadridge

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Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with over $4.5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge’s infrastructure serves as a global communications hub enabling corporate governance by linking thousands of public companies and mutual funds to tens of millions of individual and institutional investors around the world. In addition, Broadridge’s technology and operations platforms underpin the daily trading of on average more than U.S. $10 trillion of equities, fixed income and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is a part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 12,000 associates in 17 countries. Learn more: www.broadridge.com.

Liquidity & Trading

Tradeweb

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Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 50 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves more than 2,500 clients in more than 70 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $1.4 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four quarters. Learn more: tradeweb.com.

Liquidity & Trading

OTCX Trading

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OTCX is the leading bilateral workflow solution for price discovery and negotiation of OTC derivatives and structured products. With its intuitive user interface, Buy Side firms can seamlessly communicate in a structured format their trading interest with their respective Liquidity Providers. The platform’s flexible trade capture, wide range of trading formats and extensive APIs set new standards in OTC trading and remove the dependence on manual processes and fragmented audit trails. OTCX will help you leverage your trading workflows through powerful pre-trade, in-trade and post-trade analytics. We are transforming OTC Derivative trading. Learn more: otcxtrading.com.

Technology

Precisely

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Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy, consistency, and context in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 97 of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, data governance, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes. Learn more at precisely.com.

Liquidity & Trading

MTS

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MTS is one of Europe’s leading facilitators of electronic fixed income markets, connecting a network of over 500 unique counterparties across Europe and the US, with average daily volumes exceeding €130 billion in 2020. MTS is part of the Euronext Group. Learn more: mtsmarkets.com

About MTS BondsPro
MTS BondsPro is an electronic trading platform that offers access to liquidity and real-time execution on its anonymous, all-to-all order book. It supports USD and a wide range of non-USD denominated corporate bonds and emerging market debt. MTS BondsPro is part of MTS Markets International, Inc. (MMI), a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. MMI is a member of FINRA and SIPC.

TCA & Trade Analytics

BestX®

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BestX® is a Technology Company, with a simple fee based model, creating state of the art software to provide real-time, interactive analytics. We provide our clients with a level playing field to enable them to assess and compare the quality of their FX, Fixed Income and Equities transactions. BestX provides a totally open-architecture analytics service operating autonomously from any liquidity provider or execution venue. BestX is recognized by more than 120 of the world’s largest Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Banks as the Industry Standard for TCA & Best Execution Analytics.

BestX was acquired by State Street in September 2018 and is domiciled within their GlobalLink business. GlobalLink is recognized across the industry as a standalone technology services provider, alongside other State Street market utilities such as FXConnect & Fund Connect. The acquisition will enable BestX to respond swiftly to client demand to expand our existing analytics and deliver a truly multi-asset TCA platform. Learn more at bestx.co.uk

Liquidity & Trading

LTX

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LTX is a Broadridge company offering a new AI-driven digital trading platform for corporate bonds that empowers broker-dealers and institutional investors to trade smarter. Building on the market-leading data entrusted to Broadridge, LTX combines powerful AI with next-gen trading protocols that digitize complex processes to improve market liquidity, efficiency, and best execution. Our leadership team brings over 150 years of experience in fixed income trading, with deep expertise in electronic trading, data science and AI. Learn more: ltxtrading.com.

Data & Analytics

Liquidnet Investment Analytics

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Investment Analytics (IA) is Liquidnet’s solutions business that provides tools to investments teams to help them make decisions and build conviction. Our IA solutions combine innovative AI technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, with a wide array of data and content, designed to help decision-making, workflow efficiency, and performance. To learn more about IA, visit: liquidnet.com.

Liquidity & Trading

FX Connect

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FX Connect is part of GlobalLink – a suite of market-leading e-trading platforms, technology, data and workflow solutions from State Street Corporation. FX Connect is a market-leading FX execution venue that helps real money managers and hedge funds efficiently manage multiple portfolios, connect with counterparties and streamline global trading operations. Learn more: www.fxconnect.com.

Data

Glimpse Markets

Glimpse is a fixed income data sharing platform for buy-side asset managers. Participating clients send agreed subsets of their trading data to Glimpse who then aggregate, anonymise, and re-distribute the data to all members of the network. Glimpse’s offering is underpinned by a “Give to Get” model whereby clients must contribute their trading data to receive the aggregated, anonymised data from all other members. There is no cost to participate, and all clients can monetise the data they contribute via a pro-rata profit sharing agreement.

The platform is driven and shaped by its buy-side Advisory Board. The Advisory Board is comprised of a collection of buy-side clients who provide regular input into how the network operates, how participant data is used and how Glimpse evolves going forward. Our aim is to also provide capacity for the buy-side to pass on all or part of their profit-share to designated ESG initiatives, including offering relevant regulators and other non-profit bodies pro bono access to the data. Learn more at glimpsemarkets.com.

Liquidity & Trading

Neptune

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At Neptune Networks, we deliver high-quality bond market data from sell-side banks to buy-side clients. Our technology enables real-time connectivity between banks and investors which leads to meaningful conversations, satisfying the immediate requirements of each party and ultimately, increasing trade volumes. We are uniquely positioned in the marketplace, as we have bilateral commitment from buy-side and sell-side, including representatives of each sitting on our board. Learn more: www.neptunefi.com.

Portfolio & Risk Analytics

Numerix

Since our founding in 1996, Numerix has been at the vanguard of financial technology, providing groundbreaking expertise, quantitative analytics, and software that redefines pricing and risk management in the financial markets. With the strategic acquisitions of FINCAD and PolyPaths, Numerix has further strengthened its leadership position, empowering financial institutions worldwide to transform risk into opportunities with confidence.

Numerix is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world in major financial centers which allows for immediate access to the latest trends, innovations, and thought leaders in the industry. This extensive network across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific enables Numerix to offer localized support and services to its diverse clientele while drawing on global insights and expertise. Learn more: numerix.com.

Data

BondCliq

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BondCliQ is the first consolidated, institutional quote system for the corporate bond market. The platform’s unique protocols facilitate broader access to critical institutional pricing information while incrementally improving the quality of pre-trade data. The solution is specifically designed to work collaboratively with other technology partners to accelerate distribution and enhance institutional corporate bond trading workflow. BondCliQ offers several options for consuming pre-trade institutional pricing data and post-trade TRACE information. Learn more: bondcliq.com.

TCA & Trade Analytics

ChartIQ I S&P Global

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ChartIQ is a data visualization and charting solution that brings any dataset to life with interactive graphic displays designed for the financial industry. Retail brokerages and trading platforms use ChartIQ to elevate their user’s trading experience. Financial institutions and banks use ChartIQ to provide their end users with powerful data visualization tools that facilitates discovery of critical information. ChartIQ is now a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Learn more: spglobal.com.

Middle Office

Cassini Systems

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Since 2014, Cassini has been a leading innovator and developer in the margin and collateral analytics industry. Its award-winning analytics have become essential for asset management firms, hedge funds, pension funds, commodity trading companies, clearing brokers, and prime brokers.

The company is unique in combining advanced algorithms with intelligence-driven analytics to provide derivative users improved returns, reduced operational risk, and fast margin calculations on any cleared or uncleared derivatives asset. Cassini enables visibility and control over margin, liquidity, and collateral costs and is able to analyse margin exposure and maximize margin efficiency across the whole trade lifecycle. Learn more: cassini.com.

Liquidity & Trading

Trumid

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Trumid is a financial technology company building tomorrow’s trading network. The company optimizes the credit trading experience by combining agile technology and market expertise, with a focus on product design. The result is a differentiated and easy to use trading solution for its community of users. Learn more: trumid.com.

Liquidity & Trading

Adroit Trading Technologies

Charles River’s Order & Execution Management System (OEMS) integrates with Adroit to streamline trading across OTC Derivatives. This integration provides seamless access to key OTC liquidity and data providers. Learn more about Adroit at: adroit-tt.com

Data

ICE

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By combining world class technology with leading data services and operating expertise, we add transparency and enable customer efficiency gains that advance both our networks and solutions for customers. As our electronic markets and demand for clearing grew, access to new sources of information became central to our customers. We saw this evolution and consistently we advanced our capabilities, building a data business which is complementary to every part of our solution. Learn more: theice.com. 

Liquidity & Trading

Luminex Trading

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Luminex Trading & Analytics offers low-cost trading and superior execution quality with minimal information leakage by interacting only with venue-approved participants. Our collaborative approach seeks to improves trust, liquidity, and control, and help buy side traders execute large block trades with little market impact. Rather than retain profits for the benefit of consortium members, Luminex is committed to reinvesting excess cash flow to deliver continued improvements in trading performance. Learn more: www.luminextrading.com.

Portfolio & Risk Analytics

Northfield

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Northfield is a leading risk management analytics provider known for its research based applications and industry wide thought leadership. Founded in 1985, we provide our risk forecasting services to over 200 asset manager and asset owner clients world-wide with offices in Boston, London and Sydney. We model each instrument and portfolio position in a bottom-up, granular fashion. Our factor models span public and private markets in economic, intuitive and statically robust way. Learn more: northinfo.com.

Middle Office

AcadiaSoft

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Acadia is a leading industry provider of integrated risk management services for the derivatives community. Our risk, margin and collateral tools enable a holistic risk management strategy on a real-time basis within a centralized industry standard platform. Acadia’s comprehensive suite of analytics solutions and services helps firms manage risk better, smarter, and faster, while optimizing resources across the entire trade life cycle. Through an open-access model, Acadia brings together a network of banks and other derivatives participants, along with several market infrastructures and innovative vendors. Acadia is used by a community of over 3,000 firms exchanging more than $1 trillion of collateral on daily basis via its margin automation services. Acadia is headquartered in Norwell, MA and has offices in Boston, Dublin, Dusseldorf, London, New York, Manila, and Tokyo. Acadia® is a registered trademark of AcadiaSoft, Inc. Acadia is a LSEG Business within the Post Trade division. Learn more: acadia.inc.

Liquidity & Trading

360T

360T is uniquely positioned to help connect the global FX industry via our proprietary suite of web-based technology solutions. Part of Deutsche Börse Group, we are a fully regulated entity offering access to the complete spectrum of FX and Short-Term Money Market products, in addition to listed derivatives. Our suite of innovative products and services enables clients to streamline their workflows across the entire trade lifecycle, reduce operational risks and enhance their execution outcomes. Learn more: 360t.com.

Regulatory Services

TRADEcho

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TRADEcho is a best-in-class MiFID II transparency service to help firms ensure trade reporting compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. TRADEcho is formed of a team of industry, regulatory and technical experts, bringing together the complementary strengths of OTC reporting and the LSE’s expertise with on-exchange reporting to offer an unparalleled breadth and quality of service. Learn more: www.tradecho.com.

Regulatory Services

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Established in 2001, we deliver high quality online legal risk management products which help you operate more efficiently. We seek to understand what types of legal information would make your lives easier. You pay an annual subscription fee and we deliver our promises. Learn more: aosphere.com.

Regulatory Reporting

Regulatory Reporting

Regulatory Reporting, an LSEG business, part of our Post Trade offering, is a regulated platform that helps clients meet their reporting compliance obligations and reduce operational and regulatory risk through reporting, reference data and analytics solutions. Regulatory Reporting helps thousands of firms reporting more than 13 billion transactions annually for global regulations, including SFTR, EMIR and MiFID II. Regulatory Reporting also helps firms make more from their data, with advanced analytics that helps improve data quality assurance and provides peer-to-peer analytics. Regulatory Reporting is also the source for a range of unique reference data such as SEDOL and LEI and can help firms enrich their own data sources with eligibility files. Learn more: lseg.com.