Risk Analysis Tool to Reduce Trading Risks
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, May 16, 2008

Sybase, an enterprise software and services company focused on managing and mobilizing information, has launched the trading edition of market analytics platform -- RAP. RAP claims to enable capital markets firms make better trading, risk, and portfolio decisions with less risk.

It's designed specifically for high-volume, high-velocity trading environments, and accelerates varying analytics requirements for all asset classes in a single platform.

It also enables capital markets firms to capture and consolidate high volumes of market data feeds by efficiently storing multiple years of trade and other data in real time. Sybase claims RAP compresses stored data by up to 70 % and is capable of storing up to terabytes of data, while delivering 10 to 100 times faster analytics performance than traditional data management platforms.

"The risk analytics market has barely been tapped. There's a huge growth opportunity to be seized for vendors providing innovative offerings to optimize performance," said Tom Price, senior analyst at TowerGroup. "Wall Street is hurting and they need to look at solutions that will provide them with better efficiencies in their trade lifecycles."

Other key beneficiaries of the solution include quantitative analysts, risk managers, and compliance officers. Analysts can run powerful quantitative models against years' worth of time-series market data, trading histories, and reference data, with complex analysis running in minutes vs. hours; risk managers can monitor balance sheet exposure hourly to reduce firm-wide risk; and compliance officers can audit the trade flow to meet the latest market compliance requirements.


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