SunGard has been positioned as a category leader in a new RiskTech Quadrant^® from Chartis, “Sell-Side Risk Management Technology 2015,” which focuses on aspects of risk management that are relevant to the capital markets trading concerns of the sell-side across the front, middle and back office.

SunGard’s solutions for risk management cover pre- and post-trade risk; integrated, enterprise-wide market, liquidity, credit and operational risk; asset liability management; and trade surveillance. SunGard provides a front to back risk infrastructure for capital markets sell-side  firms which consists of SunGard’s Adaptiv for trading book market and credit risk; Ambit for ALM, liquidity risk and loan assessment; Protegent for ALM and fraud; Apex for collateral management; and Front Arena for position management. These solutions can be used across trading and clearing platforms and multiple asset classes to help organizations better understand their exposure, improve the visibility and understanding of risk across the enterprise, and comply with regulations globally.

“Regulatory pressure and scarcity of capital, coupled with advances in technology, have raised demand for systems able to carry out risk management under tight time constraints. In addition to completeness of product and technology capabilities, leading vendors need to provide flexible architectures and modeling to allow their customers to adapt to a changing marketplace and to changing regulation, as well as data management capabilities to support a more enterprise-wide approach to risk management for the sell-side. SunGard’s extensive risk management capabilities across risk types, industry sectors and geographies have helped earned its position as a category leader.” – Peyman Mestchian, managing partner, Chartis Research

“Risk management has scaled capital markets firms’ agendas to analyze risk and exposure throughout the trade life cycle and across the organization. SunGard’s completeness of offerings, ability to combine risk solutions targeted at middle-office risk departments, as well as embedding risk management measurement and practices directly in the front office are essential to helping firms effectively meet regulatory and internal demands. In addition, our component-based technology strategy gives firms the option of employing individual components or using them as part of a complete risk infrastructure.” – Craig Costigan, president, risk and compliance, SunGard

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