Insights
Analysis on Bloomberg AIM, Charles River IMS, and the decisions that shape buy-side operations. Written from implementation experience, not vendor literature.
License costs represent 15–25% of actual 36-month TCO. The rest is everything the vendor does not scope. Practitioner ranges for Bloomberg AIM and Charles River across all five cost buckets, by firm size.
Read article →Compliance rule mapping is where most CRD implementations either succeed or unravel. The problems are rarely technical — they are definitional. Here is what actually happens when you build a ruleset from scratch at a major custodian.
Read article →Both platforms handle OMS and compliance at institutional scale. The differences that matter are not in the feature lists — they are in how each system behaves under the constraints real buy-side firms actually operate under.
Read article →