Front Office Capabilities To Support Trader Activities

Real-time position, risk and P&L

The ability to analyze and monitor risk and P&L in real-time is fundamental to any financial institution. Misys Opics Plus allows traders and risk managers to monitor P&L, position exposures, and Value at Risk (VaR) in real-time - as well as providing full support for 'what-if‘ scenarios.

The system's real-time blotters track scenario linear and non-linear risk statistics, P&L, interest rate gaps and currency positions across asset classes. Users can customize position and risk views, or the views can be set by the head of the desk. Traders can also use the blotters to drill down to a deal level to perform further analysis, or perform deal activity such as reversals, triggering and exercising, directly from within Misys Opics Plus.

In addition, users can 'slice and dice‘ P&L by drilling down to the detailed trade level if necessary, to examine exactly which elements of the portfolio or market have contributed most to the bottom line.

Advanced risk and compliance management Market risk

Misys Opics Risk Plus is an advanced market risk and portfolio management solution aimed at monitoring and controlling a financial institution's risk exposure. It is a complete risk management tool for traders, portfolio managers, risk managers, asset/liability managers, corporate treasurers, government agencies and hedge funds.

The solution's depth of functionality enables financial institutions to manage, model, forecast and report risk for all levels - the institution itself, the controllers of the institution and its clients. Misys Opics Risk Plus provides real-time position updates, P&L and risk management including Greek and VaR statistics via its comprehensive selection of VaR sensitivity methodologies.

Market data analysis and trade pricing

Misys Opics Plus supports market data from both internal and external sources. Market data is published and distributed and includes yield curves, volatilities, FX rates, securities, equities and futures prices along with interest rates, money market rates, MBS cash flows and prepayment speeds.

The solution has integrated deal pricing that supports both internal and external pricing models from third party vendors including NumeriX, Fincad, Fenics and Savvysoft, as well as financial institution's in-house pricing libraries. Using Misys Opics Plus allows users the flexibility to choose from various pricing sources and models at deal entry.