This buyer’s guide assesses seven technology vendor solutions that address market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and counterparty risk in the capital markets space. The vendors reviewed in this report are: Calypso, Imagine Software, Murex, MSCI, Orchestrade, Prime Analytics and The Technancial Company. These technology vendors are risk management system providers for both buyside firms and investment banks, and they target a global client base. Additional functional aspects considered as part of the systems’ assessment include traceability and alerting, reporting, research and models, stress-testing, limit management and data.
The report sets out the depth and breadth of functional coverage of the seven surveyed vendors, rather than undertaking a comparative analysis to determine the quality or rank of each solution across functional areas. Each solution is taken as a market offering with a functional set that ranges from elementary through intermediate to advanced.