BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side risk management product—Numerix

Overview

Numerix Oneview is designed to support the pricing, valuation, position-keeping, hedging, lifecycle management, risk analysis and reporting of over-the-counter (OTC), listed and structured products. With real-time agility, it enables buy-side firms to respond swiftly to market fluctuations, allowing them to price, manage and report trades or portfolios instantly. Oneview’s up-to-the-minute data supports traders to make more judicious, accurate decisions in volatile markets, ensuring optimal outcomes and unmatched precision for buy-side risk management.

The solution  

Numerix Oneview addresses buy-side firms’ needs for a robust risk management solution by offering cross-asset depth, easy-to-use analytic functionality, and precise analytics. Its user interface ensures optimized TCO while enabling firms to confidently manage complex portfolios across OTC, listed, fixed income and structured products. By providing real-time insights and enhanced decision-making capabilities, Oneview supports firms in seizing trading/investment opportunities and mitigating risks, delivering a competitive advantage in both volatile and stable market conditions.

Secret sauce  

Key to Numerix Oneview’s uniqueness is its sophisticated analytics, including complete fixed-income coverage and built-in market data integration. It delivers regulatory compliant calculations, transparent drill-through insights, and full documentation for user clarity. Built on serverless technology, it guarantees cloud scalability while its pay-per-use model ensures cost efficiency. This combination of analytic breadth, advanced architecture and optimized TCO positions Oneview as the solution for clients seeking innovation and reliability in risk management.

Recent milestones

Numerix recently:

• Introduced enhancements tailored for buy-side clients, including advanced value-at-risk (VAR) methodologies with Monte Carlo simulation for precision and flexibility in risk assessments
• Enhanced VAR decomposition metrics to deliver granular insights for informed decision-making, while the new scenario engine enables full revaluation decomposition of P&L
• Added features like back-testing for VAR validation to ensure compliance and a data-driven UI for XVA sensitivity reports, boosting usability. Numerix Oneview features serverless cloud architecture to support scalability, optimizing performance and operational efficiency.

Future objectives

The 2025 roadmap highlights significant improvements aimed at enhancing usability, efficiency and risk management. Key initiatives include refining the pre-trade experience, integrating live trading books with market data, and expanding trade lifecycle event workflows. Advanced features like P&L revaluation methodologies, FX position aggregation, and automated processes for fixings and settlements will bolster operational effectiveness. Additionally, tools such as an interest rate curve viewer and equity volatility viewer will drive deeper market insights for strategic decision-making.

Why they won

Numerix’s win in this category is courtesy of its Oneview platform, a suite of applications that provide firms on both sides of the industry with real-time, end-to-end solutions supporting the pricing, trading and management of derivatives and structured products. Key to Oneview’s continued success in these awards is its impressive suite of real-time risk analytics and the flexibility it offers across all asset classes.

Designed to support buy-side firms in fast-changing markets, Oneview combines pricing, valuation, lifecycle management, and risk reporting within a single, cloud-based platform. Its analytics engine supporting OTC, listed, fixed income and structured products, enables data-driven decision-making and proactive risk mitigation. Oneview is built on serverless cloud technology and ensures scalability and cost efficiency through its pay-per-use model, while recent innovations to the platform include enhanced Monte Carlo VAR methodologies, revaluation P&L scenario analysis and automated VAR back-testing. With its intuitive interface, integrated market data and ever-impressive analytics library, Numerix Oneview delivers the speed, depth and precision modern investment firms are looking for to help them manage their risk proactively and turn it into a strategic advantage.

Numerix won this category in last year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards and the corresponding category of the 2025 Waters Rankings.