Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Bloomberg Integrates LCH.Clearnet's Swaps Margin Calculator
Bloomberg's Professional Service can now directly access LCH's SwapClear Margin Approximation Risk Tool (SMART) to determine capital funding requirements for swaps.
SunGard Upgrades Asset Arena InvestOne for ‘Multiple Books of Record’
SunGard has released the latest version of its Asset Arena InvestOne accounting platform and it now has functionality for Multiple Books of Record, as well as the launch of a new operational management and monitoring solution.
Numerix Integrates FVA Framework
The analytics provider has added a new framework for sell sides to calculate funding valuation adjustment (FVA) for arbitrary instrument types, including bespoke instruments with optionality, callability, and triggers such as Bermudan swaptions.
Open Platform: Value at Risk - The New Data Challenge
Following the financial crisis, the industry is reevaluating how it uses and calculates Value at Risk. But more accurate and frequent VaR needs the ability to capture and analyze more frequent underlying data, requiring a new approach to risk data…
Deloitte Study Finds Increased Risk Management Tech Spend
The eighth biennial survey on risk management practices concluded that almost two-thirds, or 65 percent, of financial services firms have upped their risk management and compliance spend. 58 percent say more increases are expected in the next three years.
Anthony Malakian: No Reconciling Dependency on Excel
According to some reports, 70 to 80 percent of reconciliations at major financial institutions still take place through the use of manually intensive, spreadsheet-based platforms. Anthony says that in today’s environment, this is simply unacceptable.
Risk Management a Challenge When Algos Go Rogue
In an article published in May, Waters explored the problematic task of performing market surveillance in automated, high-frequency trading environments. Another challenging area for algorithmic trading is that of risk management, when questions of risk…
AQR's Path to Reconciliation
In order to improve its reconciliations capabilities, AQR Capital decided it needed to replace its legacy reconciliation system, which relied largely on manual processes. The Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund turned to Electra Information Systems for…
Risk Management Budgets to Fall by 2014
Sell-side institutions are likely to spend 25 percent less on risk management by 2014, according to a recent survey by Risk Nation.
SimCorp, AcadiaSoft Partner on Margin Calls
The investment management solutions provider will use AcadiaSoft's MarginSphere instant messaging service, which provides automation of dispute-based processing for collateral issues and exceptions.
The World is at War (Online)
Dealing with the increasing threat from cyberspace.
Risk Management: Time to Get Real
It wasn’t long ago that it was acceptable for capital markets firms to manage their risk on an overnight basis, computing their various measures through lengthy batch processes while the markets slept. But that all changed with the 2008 credit crisis as…
Woodfield Fund Administration Taps Smonik for Reconciliations
Illinois-based Woodfield Fund Administration has chosen back-office solutions provider Smonik Investment Systems' Recon solution to manage its portfolio reconciliations processes.
Markit Readies Front-Office Upgrade for OTC Charges
Markit has announced new calculations in its front-office analytics suite, designed to help customers cope with a range of complex regulatory calculations from a single application.
Chief Data Officer: A Role Under Construction
Over the past few years, the capital markets have witnessed the promotion of data executives to the role of chief data officer (CDO), elevating data issues to the C-level. Marina Daras looks at how CDOs are making their way to the top of primarily sell…
SS&C GlobeOp Opens Cloud Portal to the Buy Side
SS&C GlobeOp, the fund admin unit of SS&C Technologies, has extended its cloud-based portal to all of its global fund administration service clients, including hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity and managed accounts clients.
HDFC Taps Numerix for Risk Management
Mumbai-based HDFC Bank has selected Numerix Portfolio to help consolidate its risk processes.
Linedata Adds Private Equity Capabilities
Linedata has added private equity administration functionality to its back office platform.
eClerx Unveils ISDA CSA Solution
Business processing provider eClerx has launched a new product to allow firms to better manage ISDA credit support annex (CSA) documents. The new product, called ISDA CSA Document Risk Review, is designed to help firms better manage their credit risk.
Counterparty Credit Models Herald New Workflows
Initial cost and hardware limitations are often tallied as potential problems for sell-side firms complying with new capital-charge requirements by optimizing netting strategies and collateral usage. Now those firms face a different challenge: where to…
Six Partners with swissQuant for ImpaQt Launch
Data services provider Six Financial Information and swissQuant have launched ImpaQt, a portfolio risk-management system, to support the wealth-management industry in meeting regulatory requirements for client protection, pre-trade suitability and risk.
SEC Announces Quant Analysis Unit
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a number of new initiatives designed to combat fraud and market abuse, including a unit dedicated to risk and data analysis, within its enforcement arm.