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By Stuart Grant, Business Development Manager, Financial Services, Sybase, an SAP Company
It was a compelling yet simple question: “Why haven’t we solved risk management problems?” Years after the financial collapse of 2008 — which was years after the warning signs began appearing — risk managers and executives still cannot see eye-to-eye on risk management architecture.
Pricing Partners is meeting growing interest in unstructured products with valuation services for proprietary indexes created by banks to support investment in risky and non-risky assets, while making trading rules transparent to investors.
OpenGamma has released version 1.0 of its open source analytics and risk management platform, promising costs below those of proprietary vendor offerings and a technology roadmap including wider asset class coverage and increased scale to support large installations and portfolios.
S&P Capital IQ has ugraded its fixed income transparency solution by reconfiguring and adding content and functionality to the platform behind its Valuation and Data portal. The upgraded service is intended to help users improve risk management while meeting accounting and regulatory requirements for independent and transparent valuations.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has added exchange-traded options to its Gloss multi-asset trade processing and settlement solution, reducing operational risk and cost around the asset class by supporting it on a unified platform delivering a single view of positions across all asset classes, high level straight through processing (STP) and reduced time exposure to failed settlements.
Inside this Issue:
> Vista Offer for Misys Suggests a Rethink of Product Roadmaps
> Traiana Reduces Risk of Central Counterparty Clearing
> Thomson Reuters’ Sale of Portia Marks End of 2011 Divestiture Plan
> BlueBay Runs Imagine’s Cloud-Based Software for Real-Time Risk and P&L
> Kempen Capital Manages Collateral and Reduces Risk with Omgeo ProtoColl
This white paper is based on primary research by A-Team interviewing senior IT and Data Strategy managers at tier 1 and tier 2 banks.
Risk management has been accepted as the new imperative for financial institutions of all types and sizes. But for Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks and brokerages, the complexity of their organisations is presenting risk professionals with a thorny data management challenge: How to gather, normalise and synchronise information from a broad array of internal and external sources that provide the data required to drive their risk analytics and management systems?

















