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Since our founding in 1996, we have been at the vanguard of financial technology, providing groundbreaking expertise, quantitative analytics and software that redefine pricing and risk management in the financial markets. With the strategic acquisitions of FINCAD and PolyPaths, Numerix has further strengthened its leadership position empowering financial institutions worldwide, to transform risk into opportunities with confidence.

As a leader in analytics, SAS has more than 40 years of experience helping organisations solve their toughest problems. SAS' unrelenting commitment to innovation enables the financial services to modernise and sustain a competitive edge. SAS provides an integrated, enterprise-wide risk management platform for managing risk in an organisation, from strategic to reputational, operational, financial or compliance-related risk management. Learn more about how SAS is driving innovation and business value for risk and finance professionals at www.sas.com/risk.

S&P Global Market Intelligence integrates financial and industry data, research and news into tools that track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. It offers investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities the intelligence essential to make business and financial decisions with conviction.

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The Derivatives Service Bureau, DSB, is the global golden source of reference data for Over the Counter (OTC) derivatives. Serving over 4,000 users spanning approximately 500 institutions, the DSB enables market participants to meet their regulatory reporting obligations to trade repositories, and for post- trade transparency and market abuse reporting related to MiFID II. A global utility with widespread industry representation, expertise and collaboration at its core, the DSB provides its reference data on a cost-recovery basis to increase transparency, efficiencies and interoperability through the use of standards. Users can access the DSB’s automated zero-touch technology platform through an open and easily accessible web interface that can handle multiple taxonomies of definitions and descriptive data for near real-time allocation.

Founded by the Association of National Numbering Agencies, ANNA, the DSB is the sole source of multiple ISO standards for OTC derivatives, including International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Unique Product Identifiers (UPIs), Classification of Financial Instruments Codes (CFIs) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISNs). In addition to its ISO mandates, the DSB has been nominated by the Financial Stability Board of the G20 to be the exclusive global operator of the UPI Service. This service will enable authorities to aggregate data on OTC derivatives transactions by product or by any UPI reference data element.

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The DSB’s core purpose is to serve as a global numbering agency, providing unique identification of OTC derivatives to serve the needs of market participants and regulators through allocation of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI), International Securities Identification Number (ISIN), Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI) and Financial Instrument Short Name (FISN), as OTC products are created. The UPI, ISIN, CFI and FISN are globally recognized and adopted ISO standards for identifying and classifying financial instruments. 

Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of inter-broker dealer TP ICAP, is a leading global provider of OTC Market Data. From pre to post trade, their solutions help clients manage complex markets more effectively.

In May 2022, the firm became an FCA authorized benchmark administrator. This license has allowed the company to take on administration of the nine TP ICAP interest rate swaps benchmarks that were previously administered by Moorgate Benchmarks.  In April 2023, the firm was also approved as an ESMA authorised benchmark administrator, making it the first IDB to administer OTC benchmarks and indices across Europe AND the UK.

Central to Parameta’s purpose is partnering with clients to create true value. The team is focussed on helping clients navigate changing market conditions, not only by providing world-class proprietary data but also the analysis and insight that will fuel their strategies.

Get closer to the market with TraditionData. With over 1 trillion data points across 200+ products and 200k+ instruments going back 15+ years, as well as a global presence with 40+ offices in 30 countries, we provide precision OTC market data and analytics to our customers that is used daily for trading and business decisions.

Enhanced global FX coverage includes deliverable FX forwards, spot crosses, non-deliverable forwards in both outrights and point, IMM fixed settlements dates, as well as starting and ending quarterly turns fixed settlement date instruments.

Our Interest Rate data products, including real-time, intraday, end of day and historical pricing for the global interest rate derivative marketplace is made up of over 19,000 unique instruments from across the entire yield curve, with coverage across 34 currencies. We also offer a market-leading SOFR Indicative Rate Service, the first true intraday “day-ahead” insight to the next day’s SOFR rate.

TraditionData is part of Tradition (Compagnie Financière Tradition S.A. (SWX: CFT)), one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter financial and commodity products. Tradition’s long history of managing pricing liquidity and trade execution across multiple asset classes in vanilla and complex products in primary and emerging markets enables us to access prices in many of the world’s most dynamic and traditionally opaque markets. 

Website: www.traditiondata.com/

From the board room to the engine room, McKinsey & Company Risk & Resilience equips organizations to boldly embrace uncertainty, embed resilience, and enable growth. We drive impact by combining a holistic view of the risk landscape with deep industry and regulatory expertise. By leveraging proprietary solutions, advanced analytics, and proven change management tools, we partner with clients on strategy, implementation and capability building – and everything in between.

Cassini Systems is a leading provider of pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics for derivatives market participants.

Buy-side firms can leverage the platform to monitor, optimize and ensure transparency on their margin, as well as achieve collateral liquidity and efficient utilization, lowering the carry cost of derivatives.

Cassini’s platform provides the only full front-to-back solution covering margin, collateral and cost analytics for all classes of cleared and uncleared over-the-counter derivatives as well as futures and options. 

It integrates into post-trade collateral management, treasury and risk systems – enabling clients to bring post-trade cost analytics into the pre-trade process. Cassini is also integrated into key asset management platforms to facilitate leveraging analytics with little implementation overhead.

Top-tier hedge funds, asset managers, and global banks rely on Cassini for powerful, flexible, automated tools to manage their portfolios of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives products. Cassini was named Best Analytics Solution to Address Capital Requirements/ Liquidity Risk in the RegTech Insight Awards 2023 and Named one of the Most Influential FinTech Firms 2023.

About Murex

Murex, a global leader in the capital markets, provides award-winning solutions in cross-asset trading, risk management and post-trade processing. For 35 years, Murex has provided enterprise-wide, cross-asset financial technology solutions to capital markets players. Its cross-function platform, MX.3, supports trading, treasury, risk and post-trade operations, enabling clients to better meet regulatory requirements, manage enterprise-wide risk and control IT costs. With more than 57,000 daily users more than 60 countries, Murex clients span the financial services industry, from banking and asset management to energy and commodities. Murex is an independent company with over 2,500 employees across 19 locations. Murex is committed to providing cutting-edge technology, superior customer service and unique product innovation. MX.3 is specifically designed and engineered to meet the multifaceted challenges of a transforming financial industry. To find out more, visit www.murex.com. 

Since 1985, WatersTechnology have been serving the financial community with independent expert journalism.

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Central Banking is firmly established as the industry’s leading information resource; it delivers unrivalled coverage of the market, with in-depth analysis of all the latest industry news.

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