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REAL-TIME PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT, RISK & REGULATORY SOLUTIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT FIRMS WORLDWIDE BY THE NUMBERS
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Stress testing tools can shock up to HIGH VOLUMES SUPPORTED HUNDREDS REAL-TIME 17 RISK and P&L ANALYTICS FACTORS HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS OVER POSITIONS & ACCOUNTS 11,000,000 ACTIVE SECURITIES WITH TERMS & CONDITIONS MILLIONS VALUATIONS & RISK ANALYTICS TRADES PER DAY SOFTWARE OUR STORY / 1 WHO WE SERVE / 2 REAL-TIME RISK & COMPLIANCE / 3 MARGIN SERVICE / 4 APPLICATION SERVICES PROVIDER / 5 FINANCIAL PLATFORM / 6 DATA MANAGEMENT / 7 RISK AGGREGATION / 8 LIQUID ALTERNATIVES SOLUTION / 9 CONSULTING SERVICES / 10 WHAT CLIENTS SAY / 11 INDUSTRY RECOGNITION / 12
Imagine Software, Inc. | 22 Cortlandt St., 32nd floor | New York, NY 10007 | 1-212-317-7600 (voice) | www.ImagineSoftware.com
Imagine Software provides real-time portfolio, risk management and regulatory solutions for the world’s leading banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, funds of funds and asset managers. Founded in 1993, Imagine delivers institutional-grade functionality and broad cross-asset instrument support for businesses of all size and complexity. Financial professionals around the globe rely on Imagine to launch tailored products, enter new markets, adjust business strategies and scale for growth. Contact us for more information at [email protected] OUR STORY Imagine Software is a leading provider of real-time portfolio, risk & regulatory management solutions for institutional investment firms worldwide.
Imagine helps financial firms of all Real-Time Financial Risk Management sizes and complexity successfully Whether your goal is to improve portfolio performance, monitor and report global limits, perform stress tests, aggregate firm-wide navigate market risk, improve risk or deliver enhanced transparency, Imagine creates the integrated portfolio performance, deliver solutions that fit your firm. Clients have access to live P&L and can manage risk from anywhere in the world – intra-day, all day. operational efficiencies and
provide regulatory transparency – World-Class Technology Platform
all from one integrated platform. Imagine delivers the sophisticated and easy-to-use technology that drives entire front-to-back office operations across portfolio and risk management, operations and compliance. Our clients use Imagine as a full-service cloud-based ASP and an enterprise installation – we support all proprietary needs.
1 / IMAGINE SOFTWARE WHO WE SERVE
BANKS BROKERAGE HEDGE FIRMS FUNDS
Imagine provides institutional-grade Broker-dealers turn to Imagine for Imagine was the first to develop a functionality and the broad cross- our ability to deliver real-time pricing, comprehensive compliance solution asset instrument coverage that exposures and risk management for for hedge funds facing increasing supports every level of the firm and the fastest-moving markets, trade- regulatory scrutiny. Working directly effortlessly scales for growth. From by-trade and tick-by-tick – and for with our clients, Imagine created trading to operations to compliance solutions that enhance trade a technology solution that simultaneously and more, Imagine is the front-to- reporting, performance and more. tracks real-time limits, performs stress back-office engine that firms rely on tests and captures risk across all for comprehensive risk management. portfolios.
FUNDS OF PENSION ASSET FUNDS FUNDS MANAGERS
For funds that may not have direct With Imagine’s advanced data and Imagine’s time-to-market in installing access to position-level data, the analytics, pension funds can monitor proper and relevant portfolio and risk Imagine Risk Aggregation Solution investment, regulatory and demographic management systems is second to (RAS) allows firms to view, compare trends – or any other selected field – none. We have managed hundreds and report risk exposures across all that impacts a plan portfolio. Imagine of integrations and built thousands underlying funds and investments. sources underlying data directly from of ready-to-go interfaces with leading administrators and prime brokers. third-party systems to facilitate the smooth transfer of data.
IMAGINE SOFTWARE / 2 REAL-TIME RISK & COMPLIANCE
The Imagine Real-Time Risk & Compliance (RRC) solution supports clearing houses, prime brokers and asset managers working in high-speed and high-volume environments.
RRC can calculate hundreds of FAST AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK ANALYSIS The Imagine RRC solution gives managers the ability to view intra- real-time risk and P&L analytics day risk across positions, identify distressed situations, on millions of trades per day on, drill down to spot problem accounts and take immediate steps to reset portfolio risk. hundreds of thousands of w Achieve rapid real-time processing and risk aggregation positions across thousands of across portfolios accounts. Keeping Risk Managers w Simultaneously track regulatory limits and investment risk to remain in compliance informed of their client’s exposures w Identify potential breaches of capital utilization and perform tick by tick and trade by trade. institutional-grade due diligence across all asset classes
THE IMAGINE REAL-TIME ADVANTAGE Imagine delivers a tangible benefit for financial firms worldwide with our ability to combine user-defined analytics and highly-customizable aggregation rules into a configurable solution. We provide risk managers with a single tool to investigate, identify and correct risk across the portfolio. “Imagine came highly recommended by a pioneer of the SIMULTANEOUSLY CONDUCT CRITICAL FUNCTIONS mainland financial services industry w Perform account triage with full drill down into suspect and, after using the system, it is clear why. positions and trades Imagine’s highly flexible and extensible risk w Set limits for user-defined analytics and multiple levels of management system is years ahead of what is aggregation w Quickly address client-driven changes across all variables offered by most local vendors. This ability to scale w Configure accounts with limit alerts and prevent further trades is an essential element for us, along with Imagine’s w Integrate Imagine’s metrics for “what-if” scenarios capacity to support risk analysis and valuations w Perform pre-trade risk compliance checks based on liquidity, encompassing the global derivatives market...” factor exposure or any user-defined need w Access Imagine’s margin engine KONG WEI CHENG VICE GENERAL MANAGER w Expand your real-time environment as needed GF SECURITIES | CHINA w Deliver timely and well-presented transparency reports
3 / IMAGINE SOFTWARE MARGIN SERVICE
The Imagine Margin Service is a complete state-of-the-art solution for both buy- and sell-side institutions, bringing automation, flexibility, and transparency unavailable in legacy implementations. Many methodologies and regimes are supported, including regulatory, exchange and easily-customized house rules.
The Imagine Margin Service is a managed solution that reduces ATTRIBUTION overhead and operational costs. It is a hosted service that Imagine’s margin attribution methodology enables drill-down to the includes all the necessary data and exchange interfaces needed to position level, showing every position’s individual contribution to the compute margin requirements using best practice workflows. The total portfolio margin, handling offsetting positions. comprehensive service delivers complete transparency and intra-day analytics with unparalleled flexibility. SCALABLE & EXTENSIBLE The margin calculators are easy to modify and create when INTRA-DAY ADVANTAGE methodologies change. Imagine’s flexible technology platform Portfolio managers can help clients avoid untimely margin calls, enables margin requirements to be integrated with risk analytics, such especially in fast-moving markets. Managers can quickly perform as stress tests, sensitivities and Value at Risk. account triage for clients with margin at risk. • Full intra-day and end-of-day margin calculation FUNCTIONALITY • Real-time monitoring of margin excess The Margin Service is a flexible solution with configurable Margin • Plug-and-play style rule updates create efficient workflow administration Plans that calculate any waterfall of margin methodologies and roll them back up into a total portfolio margin. The house rule engine also UNPRECEDENTED TRANSPARENCY supports customized margin rules and grids. The imagine margin Our margin reports break down every component of every margin service can model any regulatory, exchange or prime broker margin calculation. Advanced margin visualizations allow users to explore requirement. margin data more intuitively. Custom reporting supports compliance and regulatory needs.
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Client Portfolio Request a margin calculation
Report Aggregator Assembles a set of dashboards Optimizer Database with detailed report results Optimize how the Stores all results for portfolio should execution requests be allocated to the margin plans Margin Options Imagine Margin Server A tree document that describes Executes the margin plan all available margin options
IMAGINE SOFTWARE / 4 APPLICATION SERVICES PROVIDER
The Imagine Application Services Provider (ASP) platform is a responsive solution for firms looking to upgrade their real-time portfolio management, risk and regulatory reporting capabilities. Imagine removes the burden of maintaining the world-class technology that financial services firms need to scale for growth.
With real-time pricing, security A FULLY-SCALABLE SOLUTION — INTRA-DAY, EVERY DAY master, corporate actions The Imagine ASP solution is user friendly and provides processing, derived market data institutional-grade technology with broad asset class instrument and 24/7 connectivity, Imagine’s support. Our cloud-based solution can be accessed anywhere in the world, at any time— and delivers live P&L and the ability ASP provides rapid, risk-free to manage multiple trading strategies. deployment of software technology, data and a full suite w Achieve transparency through powerful and customizable risk reporting capabilities of services across departments w Gain operational efficiencies with a hosted, integrated and users. system that is expertly maintained, upgraded and retains the highest security standards worldwide w Make informed investment decisions and confidently manage risk
HANDS-ON DEVELOPMENT
“I’m continually impressed with Imagine is the only provider that manages the full chain of its hosted the speed at which Imagine is able to solution— from software research and development to client add coverage and capabilities, as well implementation and daily business operations. The firm’s expert as its flexibility in creating new solutions technical teams build, maintain and manage the state-of-the-art that make it easy to slice and dice data technology and have extensive experience integrating Imagine with all front- to back-end solutions. so my team can quickly see the possibilities across all of our holdings INTEGRATED DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES and make more informed decisions.” Imagine’s data team processes thousands of instrument updates HENDERSON GLOBAL INVESTORS and corporate actions daily. From real-time ticking market prices, yield curves, volatility surfaces and correlations, to global security master and corporate actions processing, Imagine delivers all the data and services (such as end-of-day marks, archiving, rate resets, etc.) needed for proper investment management.
5 / IMAGINE SOFTWARE FINANCIAL PLATFORM
The Imagine Financial Platfrom (IFP) is a cloud-based environment that provides users with programmatic access to Imagine’s risk and portfolio management analytics and data universe through standards-based web and desktop technologies.
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