Waters Rankings 2023: Best data analytics provider—RiskVal Financial Solutions
Product/service: RVFI
Overview
RiskVal’s flagship offering, RVFI, is a fixed-income pre-trade analytics solution used by a large number of top-tier buy-side and sell-side firms for the past 20 years. It allows traders and portfolio managers to analyze, monitor, and generate trading ideas in real time on fixed-income products such as bonds, futures, swaps, and volatility for G30 countries.
“What makes RVFI unique is that we have made meaningful software enhancements every single week for the past 20 years to push our solution forward and stay ahead of the curve. We have a great partnership with our clients to thank for this. Winning this award is recognition of everyone’s joint efforts.”
Jordan Hu, CEO, RiskVal Financial Solutions
The solution
Data-driven analytics are key to capital markets traders’ success. RVFI uses data analysis to drive trade idea generation by calculating large numbers of relative value measures for all securities in real time and provides users with a flexible interface so that they can monitor and identify opportunities in the market.
Secret sauce
RiskVal’s competitive advantage comes from its partnership of over 20 years with traders and portfolio managers who continually discuss with the firm the latest challenges facing fixed-income markets. RiskVal delivers these solutions with weekly enhancements to the software and has been doing so since the inception of RVFI in 2001.
Recent milestones
As market volatility remains high and interest rates continue to rise, RVFI has made a number of enhancements to allow traders to navigate the market around bond future delivery scenarios, central bank rates, and volatility products. With the cessation of Libor now finalized, widespread changes that were prepared over the last year have been implemented within RVFI.
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