Sharper Insight with The Razor™ Risk Management Platform

With our real-time capabilities, including pre-deal calculations, The Razor™ Risk Management platform  enables management to view their total exposure to individual entities as well as to the Market as a whole. Compliance with new Regulatory requirements relies on 'best practices' and high performance, the flexibility built into the Razor™ Risk Management framework, the experience and expertise of our consultants and the continuing use of the latest technologies means that Razor remains in the vanguard of solution vendors.

In today’s challenging and competitive environment, solutions need to be deployed quickly, cheaper to deliver and own and provide on-going cost benefits, which is why our approach and the ongoing investment in our people, product and technical capabilities means that we can deliver powerful, robust and flexible solutions whatever the complexity of the risk requirements or the size of the firm’s portfolio.

The Razor™ Risk Management platform has been specifically designed to cope with the number and complexity of trade types, transaction volumes and risk measurement treatments typically seen in banks, brokers, dealers, investment firms, clearing houses and treasury management offices. From the moment a trade, position, market-data update or end-user request hits the system a response is returned at the speed needed to ensure operations are maintained across the impacted business processes in line with productivity and client service targets.

The unique balanced distributed processing capability efficiently organizes and caches the multiplicity of risk valuations over the networked servers, delivering exceptional performance and scalability at a fraction of the cost of alternative technologies. In memory functions ensure risk and capital calculations are always 'up-to-the-minute'. Benchmarks demonstrate the outstanding performance and linear scalability of the Razor™ Risk Management platform.

The Razor™ Risk Management platform supports a broad range of instruments within all asset classes: Interest Rates, Inflation products, FX, Equities, Credit Derivatives and Energy & Commodities. Another key feature of the Razor™ design allows new, third party or proprietary pricing modules and analytics to be quickly configured and added to the system. Where specific compliance or regulatory approvals have been established, the Razor™ Risk Management platform provides an ideal environment to protect and document relevant performance and operational uses.

The platform has helped improve the way Central Clearing Counterparties, Stock Exchanges, Banks, Hedge Funds and Brokers across the globe measure their risk and manage their capital. Razor™ Risk Management platform is the leading risk management framework around the Central Counterparty 12 (CCP12) members, the industry association of the world’s principal clearing organisations.