October 2009

Highlights:

SPECIAL FEATURES

ANNOUNCEMENTS

      Product Announcements

      Events Announcements

FINCAD CLIENT SPOTLIGHT

FINCAD PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

FINCAD IN THE NEWS

 

SPECIAL FEATURES

Modeling Assumptions Behind the ISDA CDS Standard Model

In February 2009 the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) released the ISDA CDS Standard Model as an open source project as part of an effort to standardize global CDS markets. This article summarizes the main modelling assumptions made in the ISDA code base, and explains why the ISDA model will give slightly different results to other modeling approaches. » Read more about ISDA CDS Standard Model

 

Counterparty Credit Exposure for Swaps: Revisited

This popular article from the December 2008 issue of the FINCAD e-newsletter explains how FINCAD Analytics Suite can calculate various counterparty credit exposure metrics by adding credit exposure functions for a portfolio of interest rate swaps.
» Counterparty Credit Exposure.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Risk Magazine's 2009 Software Survey

Risk Magazine wants to find out who are the best technology vendors for derivatives trading and risk management! We would appreciate it if you can take a few minutes to vote for your preferred vendor.

Click here to enter the survey. Deadline: Oct. 26th.

 

Product Announcements

Coming Soon: FINCAD Analytics Suite 2010

More instrument coverage, new workbooks, enhanced curve building functions and it now includes holiday calendars for multiple jurisdictions. Additional instrument coverage includes ISDA CDS with comprehensive risk and Credit Value Adjustment (CVA). Be sure to check FINCAD's website in late October for the new product announcement or call your Account Manager today!

North America: 1.800.304.0702

Europe: 00.800.304.07020

Elsewhere: +1.604.957.1200

 

F3 SDK: The Future of Risk

F3 SDK - the Next Generation stateful, Object-Oriented financial analytics library that can be embedded into your applications. Its highly flexible design offers the ultimate in structuring flexibility, allowing you to create any combination of model, trade/portfolio, and valuation method, and providing comprehensive risk reports for any of these combinations.

 

Fair Value Insight Enhancements

ICAP, the world's leading interdealer broker, and FINCAD, the leading global provider of financial analytics, announced enhancements to their web-based derivatives valuation solution, Fair Value Insight. The most recent release of Fair Value Insight now enables users to directly upload market data and trades into the system. Read More.

 

Expanded Coverage for FINCAD Market Data

FINCAD has expanded the coverage in its market data service. FINCAD Market Data now includes more instruments needed in the curve building process. New data includes deposit rates and Eurodollar futures (CME & LIFFE), new commodity data, and additional market data to support valuations of complex products that require cap/floor or swaption volatility data for calibration. Contact your account manager today for more information.

 

Event Announcements

Webinar: Integrated Derivatives Analytics: Accelerate Your Time to Market and Reduce Development Costs

October 28, 2009 | 11:00am EDT | 4:00pm GMT

Despite the market turmoil, the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market is unyielding in its strength and importance. Organizations are increasingly requiring derivatives analytics in their portfolio, trading, OMS and risk systems.

Find out how you can capitalize on this demand. Join FINCAD and global research firm, Celent to learn how the industry is changing and how you can provide your clients better risk management, independent valuations, and transparency for OTC derivatives. Click here to register today!

Training Workshop: Valuing Derivatives Using FINCAD Analytics Suite for Excel

Valuing Derivatives Using FINCAD Analytics Suite for Excel is a 2-day workshop designed for new and existing FINCAD users who value derivatives and measure risk for fixed income and other financial instruments. Join us for this intensive workshop and you'll gain valuable skills for working with interest rate curves, interest rate swaps, options, volatility and variance swaps, structured products, and credit derivatives.

London, UK - Nov 2-3, 2009

 

FINCAD CLIENT SPOTLIGHT

Case Study: Why Startup Hedge Fund Harness Liquid Macro Chose FINCAD Analytics

Harness UK LLP announced that Harness Liquid Macro Fund has selected FINCAD Analytics to provide real time derivatives pricing and risk monitoring. Jonathan Ratcliffe, Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Harness, explains why FINCAD was the logical choice when it came to choosing a reliable and accurate valuation solution. Read More.

 

FINCAD PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

TwoFour Embeds FINCAD Analytics and Expands its Derivatives

Through its collaboration with FINCAD, TwoFour is meeting the growing demand for integrated derivatives analytics in trading and investment management systems. Using FINCAD's financial derivatives expertise and analytics software, TwoFour now offers its clients increased efficiency and productivity in valuing their OTC FX options and measuring the risk of their financial derivatives. Read More.

 

FINCAD IN THE NEWS

FINCAD Offers Consistency in Derivatives Valuations

"Valuing derivatives in a manner compatible with practices followed by other firms or auditors can be a challenge for institutional investors. The Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) found that by using FINCAD Analytics Suite for Excel, a derivatives valuation solution offered by FinancialCAD(FINCAD) Corporation, the plan could value these securities in a manner consistent with that of its auditors." Read More.

 

FINCAD and ICAP Team Up on Derivatives Valuation

Not sure just what those derivatives positions are worth? Not happy about the time it takes to figure it out? A new Web-based product that provides valuations on interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity positions from financial analytics provider FINCAD and interdealer broker ICAP, aims to help." Read More.

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