March 24, 2021
New Issue Management and Market Data Aggregation in Charles River
Join Charles River's Explore & Learn webinar series. Discover new ways to leverage the Charles River Investment Management Solution as our product experts discuss and demonstrate the latest product capabilities.
Charles River’s product specialists continue our Explore & Learn webinar series with a look at how Buy-side firms are often challenged by the opaque, manually intensive process involved in acquiring newly issued securities. Concurrently, traders still struggle to obtain accurate and timely pricing data in corporate bond markets.
This webinar will explore how Charles River has built out significant new capabilities to address these needs, by partnering with leading providers to streamline and automate new issue workflows. Additionally Charles River now offers aggregated fixed income inventory and composite pricing from several data vendors, accessible from our multi-asset order and execution management system.
Highlights include:
- Market Data Aggregation
- New Issues Management
- Attribute Based Trading
The webinar is a 35 minute presentation and discussion followed by Q&A.
Presenters
Vidya Guruju
Senior Product Manager
Vidya is responsible for managing and enhancing Charles River’s Fixed Income & OTC Derivatives Trading functionality, and prioritizes the product enhancement roadmap by tracking industry developments and gathering feedback from clients. Prior to joining Charles River, Vidya was Director of Product Management at SunGard and Director of Professional Services at Cortera. Vidya has an MBA with a concentration in finance from Babson College, a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, and is a CFA charterholder.
Michael Beattie
Director, Product Strategy
Michael is responsible for Charles River Development’s global trading product strategy and plays a lead role in shaping the firm’s long term vision for global trading. Michael has focused his 20 year career on financial services technology and the role it plays in shaping market structure. In previous roles, Michael has held numerous roles at Fidelity Investments, most recently serving as the Head of Product Management for Fidelity Stock Plan Services. Michael earned an MBA from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a BS in Economics, Finance, and Econometrics from Boston College.