FIX-related products and services

Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS)

Charles River Development FPL
7 New England Executive Park
Burlington, MA 01803 US

The Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) is a comprehensive front-to-middle-office software suite for all security types that includes Charles River Manager for portfolio management and modeling; Charles River Trader for order management and electronic trading; Charles River Compliance for real-time pre-trade and end-of-day compliance; and Charles River Post-Trade for the centralized management of trade matching, confirmation, and settlement workflow. The system incorporates real-time FIX trading via the Charles River Network, a reliable, secure, private financial network.
Charles River IMS features a modern, proven, N-Tier service oriented architecture (SOA) that is highly scalable and supports continuous 24x7 operations. Charles River combined state-of-the-art (Java, Microsoft .NET and Web Services) and industry-standard technologies to ensure Charles River IMS is open, flexible, scalable, functionally rich, and easy-to-use. Message-based APIs and exposed Web Services facilitate rapid systems integration.
The company offers many services to complement its software including implementation services and managed services (hosted and remote application management).

Architecture

J2EE, .NET

Asset Class

Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Listed Derivatives, OTC Derivatives

Course Type Offered

Overview, Practical

Coverage

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Central America, Europe, Japan, Middle-East, North America-Canada, North America-USA, Russia, South America

Domain

Front Office, Middle Office, Order Routing, Proprietary Trading

FIX Version

4.2, 4.2, 4.4, 4.4

Functionality

Allocations and Settlement Instructions, E-mail, Indications of Interest, News, Orders and Execution Reports

Language

C#, Java, Perl

Licensing

Application Service Provider, License + Maintenance

Middleware

IBM MQ Series, JDBC, JMS, Microsoft MQM, TIBCO Rendezvous, Web Services

Platform

Linux, Solaris, Windows NT/2k/XP

Service

Business Analysis / Requirements, Development, Management Consulting, Outsourcing - offshore, Outsourcing - onshore

Services

Application Services, Best Execution Tools, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, FIX Gateway, FIX Messaging and monitoring, FIX point-to-point connectivity, IP VPN, Managed Hosting, Network, Trading Applications

Supports

Windows NT

Topic

FIX 4.4, Order routing, Post trade processing

Type

Onsite Custom

Used by

Putnam Investments

Web site

http://www.crd.com/sof_ims.html

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