Americas
“Our strategy is to meet both the current and emerging needs of the hedge fund industry. Paladyne’s fully-hosted technology solution will enable Credit Suisse to provide our clients the first “out of the box” technology platform that integrates front, middle and back office capabilities.”
Philip Vasan, Managing Director and Head of Prime Services, Credit Suisse, New York City, USA
“After extensive due diligence, it was clear to us that Paladyne offered the most flexible and comprehensive solution for meeting GoldenTree’s operational objectives. Paladyne will significantly enhance our ability to manage our growing and complex business, and will enable us to reduce operational cost and business risk while providing increased value and services to our investors.”
Bill Christian, Chief Operating Officer, GoldenTree Asset Management, New York City, USA
“Selecting Paladyne as our technology partner for the fixed income investment strategy was a great fit. The Paladyne suite offers a lot of value as a front-, middle-, and back-office solution combined with a full-service IT infrastructure. The ease of timing and accuracy of financial reporting are significantly enhanced using Paladyne. We were impressed with Paladyne’s service team. Paladyne consultants worked closely with our team to analyze our complex workflow and to implement the products accordingly. Their technical staff are available as needed to support all of our IT requirements. The technology allows us to reconcile assets and performance to our fund administrator each month.”
Steven Higgins, Chief Financial Officer, Vision Capital Advisors, New York City, USA
“Maintaining consistent data across a disparate set of applications is a significant challenge that is a manually intensive and error prone. By leveraging Paladyne Security Master, we plan to automate the setup of new securities to ensure that our securities data is consistent across our front-, middle-, and back-office applications.”
Jerry Goersch, Chief Information Officer, Chilton Investment Company, New York City, USA
“After an extensive due diligence process, we concluded that the core functionality provided by the Paladyne platform would not only allow us to streamline our operations at significantly less cost, but would provide us with a platform to build out a comprehensive middle-office services solution for our clients. We believe that Paladyne’s platform, when combined with the bespoke integration and custom reporting solutions developed by our in-house IT professionals, provides us with a significant competitive advantage amongst fund administrators in terms of scale, control, and scope of services.”
Matt DesChamps, Chief Operating Officer, Kepos Capital, New York City, USA
“Paladyne allowed us to complete our goal of designing a state-of-the-art operational infrastructure. Our team has deep experience with the nuances of handling a broad universe of investable assets in global markets, and Paladyne addresses our high expectations for intelligent functionality, open interoperability, and flexible customizability necessary to support our institutional infrastructure and meet client expectations both today and in the years ahead.”
Scott Somerville, CEO, Maples Fund Services, Cayman Islands
“As fund managers demand more services from their fund administrators, we have responded with a revolutionary offering inclusive of technology, middle-office support, and traditional fund administration services. By providing our client base with direct access to Paladyne’s front-to-back office technology platform, we can assist managers through the full transaction lifecycle of trading, portfolio management, pricing and valuation, and investor reporting, while gaining operational efficiencies, scalability, and cost savings. This offering reinforces Admiral’s continuing commitment to providing clients with solutions that meet the rapidly evolving and complex requirements of the alternative investment industry.”
Canover Watson, Managing Director, Admiral Administration, Cayman Islands
“We faced a number of operating inefficiencies given our limited portfolio management tools and manual middle-office processes. Paladyne’s combined order and portfolio management capabilities have completely streamlined our operations. We now have single-entry trade processing, automated trade file delivery and reconciliation with our service providers, real-time position and P&L tracking and NAV reporting.”
Jacqueline Walker, Chief Operating Officer, Linzor Asset Management, Santiago, Chile
“By adding Paladyne Portfolio Master to our existing infrastructure, we have significantly improved our trading and operational workflow and eliminated hours of daily manual work. Paladyne’s full service hosted platform automates our daily processes and provides direct communication to brokers and market data providers with a full monitoring service to ensure that all of our processes run successfully and on schedule.”
Chris McGuire, Chief Investment Officer, Phalanx Capital, Chicago, USA
“Paladyne Credit Master™ was the only solution that we found that could support the entire workflow of our specialty lending and bank debt portfolio.”
Jesse Watson, Managing Partner, Virgo Investment Group, Palo Alto, USA
“We were able to implement Paladyne’s hosted platform, Paladyne ASP™, in a matter of weeks which significantly reduced our total cost of ownership. Virgo’s investment operations platform is focused on redundancy, procedural checks and balances, and scalability, and Paladyne Credit Master™ helps us to achieve these goals particularly for the middle-market specialty lending activities of our business.”
Bob Racusin, Head of Operations, Virgo Investment Group, Palo Alto, USA
“As a start-up manager, we required a robust trading and portfolio management system that was affordable and that we could implement in a very short time frame. It needed to work seamlessly with our prime brokers, counterparties and administrator. Paladyne’s fully hosted solution integrates all of our trading, portfolio management, accounting and risk requirements into a single platform and offers significant operational and IT support which reduces our personnel needs.”
George Roeck, CFO/COO, Charter Bridge Capital Management, New York City, USA
Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)
“In order to realize our vision of streamlined middle- and back-office administration and technology services, we needed to complement our Advent Geneva® software with Paladyne’s integrated suite of products. We plan to grow our business significantly and with the Paladyne partnership, we now have tremendous scalability and flexibility to expand the scope of our services and provide technology infrastructure directly to our customers.”
Joan Kehoe, Chief Executive Officer, Quintillion, Dublin, Ireland
“It was imperative that we could get up and running in a short timeframe, and with a minimum amount of cost and effort. Paladyne Portfolio Master™ offers us one flexible solution that now forms the entire backbone of our firm – everything from trade capture to real-time P&L to NAV generation. Paladyne, with its comprehensive solution and exceptional client service, has proven to be the ideal solution, especially when compared to our past IT experiences. As our firm continues to expand the Paladyne relationship offers us multiple options for future functionality.”
Emanuele Antonaci, Founding Partner, Farema Capital, London, UK
“Once we decided to make the switch to Paladyne’s all-in-one solution we gave their services team a very aggressive migration timeline. We were really impressed by the speed and thoroughness of the entire Paladyne FastStart™ implementation, and look forward to a close partnership with Paladyne in the coming years.”
Zain Naqi, Chief Executive Officer, Zan Partners, London, UK
“Paladyne offers a compelling value proposition with a fully integrated front-, middle-, and back-office suite of products that streamlines our operations and meets all of Belay’s core business functions in a cost-effective manner,” said Andrew Wall, COO of Belay Partners. “We now have a one-stop technology partner as our enterprise software platform, hosting provider, and full service IT solution, which is unique to the European marketplace.”
Andrew Wall, Chief Operating Officer, Belay Partners, London, UK
“Just to let you know that I’m on a laptop currently looking at real-time P&L , trading equities DMA and futures while driving round the M25 on route to Centre Parcs …. Now that’s impressive !!”
Lewis Kadwill, Head of Operations, Belay Partners, London, UK
Asia-Pacific
“This single relationship with Paladyne provides us with one cost-effective solution that covers our needs from trade capture to reconciliation and reporting, and eliminates the need to have a separate OMS and PMS system, as well as, the necessary IT support for integration and management. The unique product functionality, together with the Paladyne ASP delivery model and the outstanding quality of Paladyne’s support, has made us very satisfied with our partnership with Paladyne.”
Andrea Sorani, Chief Operating Officer, Riley Paterson Investment Management, Singapore
“We have been very impressed with Paladyne’s technology as well as the caliber of their support team. Everyone we work with at Paladyne is extremely professional and has a clear understanding of what is required for a hedge fund business in Asia.”
Lawrence Parsons, Chief Operating Officer, Saka Capital, Singapore
“Our experience has been first rate with Paladyne, and they have been very responsive to our requests. One of the main factors in our decision to go with Paladyne was that they have demonstrated a clear long-term commitment to our region.”
Guan Ong, Principal, Blue Rice Investment Management, Singapore
“We are working very closely with Paladyne to make it the premier software solution in Asia and there are a number of initiatives we are currently working on with them. I was very impressed with their desire to improve their software and to address the issues that Asian Hedge Funds in particular face with the local Asian market nuances and quirks. A lot of other vendor software solutions are primarily geared for US or European Hedge Funds and are not willing to put the required resources forward to make their software compatible for their Asian client base. It is also worth noting that their Asian Support Desk is very strong and it is very important for us being in Asia to have a strong support desk working in the same time zone and in our case only being a couple of buildings away.”
Guy Commaille, Chief Operting Officer, Boyer Allan Investment Management, Hong Kong
