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Global Margin Server
Global Margin Server (GMS) serves trading houses, CTAs, CPOs and hedge fund operators in the exchange traded derivatives and related options/futures business that have ongoing needs for accurate and timely margin calculations. GMS allows users access to initial margin calculations as well as intra- and inter-day variable margin calculations.


Decalog
Portfolio Management & Trading Solution for the Buy-side Investment Management Industry- Streamline your Investment Operations


Almonde ALM+
Almonde ALM+ adds IAS and FTP functionality to Almonde ALM. For IAS, it provides hedge effectiveness testing and reporting, IAS 32 reporting, fair value and amortized cost calculations, IAS compliant accounting entries and back-office hedge tagging and tracking. For FTP, it calculates FTP rates for determining commercial margins (for ex-ante product/customer pricing and ex-post profitability analysis) and balance sheet term mismatch margins (for evaluating the interest margin due the bank’s interest rate risk exposure). Hedging performance is measured and monitored via FTP.


Almonde ALM
These new regulatory requirements call for ALM solutions that provide increased assurance and reliability by offering more advanced analytics housed in processes that give greater structure and enable clear auditability.


Almonde Basel II
Receiving regulatory approval under the internal rating based approaches and improving risk control strategies requires a sound approach to validating and forecasting regulatory capital estimates and the drivers used to calculate them. Almonde Basel II Scenario Analysis & Testing enable banks to achieve these aims.


Charlotte
A fully-featured trust accounting and investment management solution installed in more than 500 independent banks and trust companies. Charlotte incorporates Windows-based client/server technology at the user location with remote processing and outsourced services provided by SunGard.


Tesseract
Tesseract is a new decision support tool for all asset classes.


Minerva
Minerva is our 24x7 global order management and trading system. It is a truly real-time platform, with highly configurable workflows and tradescreens designed to fully support trading of all instrument types (equity, debt, money market, mutual funds, derivatives and currency). Minerva offers full FIX (Financial Information eXchange) support, easy integration with exchanges, ECNs and various liquidity sources. It works seamlessly with any front, middle or back office technology.


Misys Loan IQ
With multiple lenders, multi-tiered deals and major complexities, loan investment and syndication is a daunting business. But Misys Loan IQ tames the entire loan management process, enabling you to maximise proven workflows and generate new forms of revenue.


AvantGard for Financial Institutions
AvantGard Treasury and Capital Markets solutions offer a unique technology infrastructure that provides business executives with economic alternatives to leverage efficient processing of financial transactions such as asset and liability management and high-end risk management, with the security that their major financial market risks are properly managed to a policy and reported accurately.


AudiTrade
AudiTrade is a Web-based order entry and trading application that integrates with clearing and accounting systems, including GMI, to provide remote access and straight through processing for futures, futures options, and equity orders. It was designed to make online trading fast, cost-effective and efficient without limiting the user to specific software or equipment requirements.


Adaptiv Trading
A real-time, straight-through trading, portfolio analysis and processing solution, SunGard Adaptiv Trading provides cross-asset trading tools that support high volumes and simplify the process of trading complex derivatives. Adaptiv Trading’s trade administration and integrated back-office modules provide a complete solution for the operational processing needs of financial services institutions. Its ease of integration with third party systems using industry standard messaging means trades can be processed in-house or via a secure Web browser.


Adaptiv Risk
A real-time, integrated market and credit risk solution for banks, asset managers, hedge funds and insurance companies, SunGard Adaptiv Risk supports global exposure aggregation and limits management in real-time. Adaptiv Risk’s comprehensive risk analytics and collateral management tools, combined with Web-based delivery, offer a consistent view of market and credit risk across an organization. Adaptiv Risk’s advanced portfolio analytics, including MC2, can be used on the trading desk and enterprise-wide, to achieve rapid credit updates and trading decisions.


Adaptiv
SunGard Adaptiv enables financial services institutions to implement trading and risk management solutions customized to their specific needs. Adaptiv Trading provides real-time, straight-through trading, portfolio analysis, risk management and processing. Adaptiv Risk provides enterprise-wide, integrated market and credit risk management. Adaptiv’s modular, extensible architecture helps financial services institutions to streamline trading and risk management operations while benefiting from lower implementation, upgrade and migration costs. Available on an in-house or hosted basis, Adaptiv uses Microsoft. Net.


Global One
More than 70 financial institutions with over 1,700 users worldwide use Global One for real-time administration and management of their international and domestic securities lending programmes.


Quantifi Risk
Quantifi Risk is a suite of pricing and risk applications which leverage the Quantifi Toolkit. These applications provide pricing and extensive risk analysis for all the products supported by the toolkit. These applications are designed from the ground up using the latest object-oriented multi-tiered architecture.


Fixed Income Front Office
To succeed in today's hybrid electronic markets all your unique needs must be met within one system, available for you and your clients to use, tailored to suit any purpose.  With solutions already live at top financial institutions, Iris Financial’s Fixed Income Front Office solution provides a sound tool for any competitive fixed income desk.

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