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Dynamic Hedging at Commerzbank
Commerzbank wanted real-time support for its trading operation in terms of what-if, predeal exposure estimates while reducing hardware and maintenance costs. Commerzbank has taken SunGard's Adaptiv Analytics to replace completely its existing risk engine for credit exposure. Adaptiv Analytics incorporates MC˛ - SunGard's unique methodology for computing portfolio credit exposure...
Why Set Limits on Your Sales, Trading and Distribution Platform?
Electronic trading is thriving in North America. The increasing acceptance of a computer interface as an alternative to telephone-based bond trading is not only paying off for the networks that provide access to liquidity, but also increasing efficiency by bringing buyers and sellers together on a single platform. Automating business...
Filenet-Sungard Availability Services: Be Ready to Recover When Disaster Strikes
A study by the University of Texas reveals that only 2 percent of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss survive after one year. The ability to resume normal operations and productivity rapidly is a critical business requirement. This need is paramount for e-Commerce applications and those industries based on...
Fund of Hedge Funds Risk Reporting - Solving the Data Aggregation and Transparency Conundrum
This paper discusses about fund of hedge funds that are experiencing increasing pressure to employ an effective risk management process. Risk analysis enables the fund to provide investors with a better idea of the risks the underlying managers are taking, and when used with performance data can provide a more...
Leveling The Playing Field In Antitrust Merger Litigation: The Sungard Decision
Merger enforcement is unlike many other aspects of government enforcement. Very few cases are litigated, and the vast majority of mergers are resolved either through consent decrees or when the parties “throw in the towel” in face of government opposition. Many mergers collapse based on the mere threat that the...
Banesto Improves ALM With BancWare
Banesto wanted a balance sheet strategy which involved managing the balance sheet by looking primarily at net interest income NII and - to some extent - economic value of equity EVE. The aim was a much more precise management of interest rate risk by taking a global perspective and across...
How HVB Built a Convertibles Business
In 2001 HVB started trading convertible bonds through a proprietary trader based in Munich. It involved spreadsheet-based pricing and analytics models and risk management and trade entry were done in the trading floor's general front- and middle-office system. HVB then decided to move seriously into convertible bonds, both origination and...
Bank of Bermuda Stays Ahead With Independent Transparent Valuations
Bank of Bermuda has a presence in 17 financial centres worldwide. Its Global Fund Services business GFS is a leader in customised fund administration and other related services for traditional and alternative fund managers. It serves almost 1,000 clients with well over $100 billion assets under administration - a figure...
STP at Saint-Gobain
La Direction de la Tresorerie et du Financement DTF - the treasury function of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain - serves over 1,000 affiliates of the Paris -headquartered building materials production and distribution company. Saint-Gobain went live in 2001 with a SunGard solution covering treasury management, deal input, risk management, debt issue...
Bright Capital: Controlling Risk With Panorama
The hedge fund industry is at a key stage of its evolution. So far, it has been a niche area appealing mostly to high net worth individuals. Now it could join the investment mainstream and receive a far larger share of the $50 trillion pool of global financial assets. But...
STP for Carifirenze in OTC Derivatives Trading
Success can bring problems. Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze Carifirenze, a medium-sized bank in Northern Italy, had seen explosive growth in its derivatives trading operation. But systems were struggling to keep up - and the bank also wanted to open up trading to its clients. SunGard's Panorama, which went live...
ABN AMRO Consolidates North American Back Office
ABN AMRO has left no doubts about the importance of technology. They have built their technology base for the future. ABN AMRO has been an Infinity user since 1991. Now the bank's main regional offices in Chicago, New York and Toronto are all live on Infinity. Rapid business growth underlies...
Hot in Hamburg: Hamburgische Landesbank
This case study discusses how two years ago, Hamburgische Landesbank decided to beef up its trading of complex over-the-counter derivatives. Today, although it's only the nineteenth largest German Landesbank, ranked by its assets of 74 billion at end-1999, it is one of the most active German dealers in credit derivatives....
SunGard Delivers a Comprehensive Risk Management Platform for Julius Baer Group
Julius Baer as a private bank and has continuously been headed by members of the Baer family since its foundation. The core businesses of the current Julius Baer Group are portfolio management and investment counselling for private and institutional clients as well as brokerage, securities and foreign exchange trading. Julius...
VP Bank Achieves Integrated Risk Management
For a world class bank like VP Bank, client relationships are of utmost importance. Guided by a conservative risk policy, VP Bank's primary business objective is to preserve and continually grow the assets entrusted to it, whether for high net worth individuals or for institutional clients. The ability to systematically...
Bank of Bermuda Provides Risk Management ASP
Fund administrators hold a lot of information on their hedge fund and fund of fund clients and are often central to most of the activity in the fund. As such, it has become increasingly common for administrators to extend their core back office offering to include value-added technologies that managers...
Italian Banks Use Technology in Changing Markets
Cost cutting, falling interest rates, maintaining profitability through new markets and better controls and new regulations have been the main features of Italian banking in recent years. These have been accompanied by consolidation in the industry with 30% fewer banks than ten years ago How have banks been applying technology...
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Fitch Upgrades SunGard Data Systems' IDR to 'B+'; Outlook Stable
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has upgraded the Issuer Default Rating IDR and the outstanding debt ratings of SunGard Data Systems Inc. SunGard as follows: --IDR to 'B+' from 'B'; --$1 billion senior secured revolving credit facility due 2011 to 'BB+/RR1' from 'BB-/RR2'; --$4.3...
SunGard Acquires Delphi Technologies Limited
DUBLIN, Ireland, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard has acquired Delphi Technologies Limited (http://www.delphi.ie/ ), a Dublin-based provider of consulting services and managed professional services to Ireland's financial services, insurance and telecommunications industries. Delphi Technologies Limited Delphi will become part of SunGard's European Consulting Services business. The transaction, the terms...
ITRC Breach Meter Reaches 342, to Date
2008 Data Breach count is 69% greater than 2007 (Jan 1 through June 27) SAN DIEGO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Identity Theft Resource Center data breach count has reached an all-time high. Between January 1st and June 27th, the total number of data breaches recorded by...
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