Aladdin (Asset, Liability, Debt and Derivative Investment Network) is an electronic system by BlackRock Solutions, the risk management division of the largest investment management corporation, BlackRock, Inc. It handles about $15 trillion in assets (including BlackRock's $6.0 trillion assets), which is about 7% of the world's financial assets. It keeps track of about 30,000 investment portfolios.
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Popular references
Adam Curtis's 2016 documentary HyperNormalisation cites the Aladdin system as an example of how modern technocrats attempt to manage the complications of the real world.
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Technology
Aladdin uses the following technologies, Linux, Java, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, Zookeeper, Splunk, ELK Stack, Git, Apache, Nginx, Sybase ASE, Cognos, FIX, Swift, REST, AngularJS, TREP.
See also
- BlackRock
References
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