Thursday, December 5, 2013

SunGard Tops Risk Magazine’s 2013 Technology Rankings

SunGard has been ranked top technology vendor in Risk Magazine's annual Technology Rankings for Enterprise-Wide Market Risk Management and Asset and Liability Management (ALM).

The Risk Technology Rankings are compiled from the votes of Risk Magazine readers and financial institutions that use the vendor systems. The awards identify the best product offering based on functionality, usability, performance, return on investment and reliability in a wide range of categories including trading systems, pricing and analytics and risk management.

SunGard's market risk solutions help deliver greater visibility of risk across the business with accurate information and enhanced reporting to help address complex regulatory requirements. These include SunGard's Adaptiv and APT, which provide enterprise-wide credit and market risk management and risk pricing solutions to help financial institutions measure, manage and monitor market risk.

Adaptiv also helps provide a true portrayal of positions, which supports risk reporting and helps firms meet regulatory requirements. APT helps business effectively monitor and manage its investment risks while maximizing portfolio-level returns.

SunGard's Ambit Asset and Liability Management (ALM) helps organizations minimize liquidity risk and strategically manage the balance sheet. Providing an integrated risk management solution that provides full and multi-dimensional analysis of the balance sheet, Ambit ALM also helps banks to accurately model customer behavior, economic valuation, interest rate scenarios and a wide range of other variables. In so doing, it helps them optimize both the size and use of their surplus cash reserves which may allow them to release strategic cash for revenue generation.

About SunGard Financial Systems
SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. The primary purpose of these systems is to automate the many detailed processes associated with trading, managing investment portfolios and accounting for investment assets. These solutions address the processing requirements of a broad range of users within financial services, including asset managers, traders, custodians, compliance officers, treasurers, insurers, risk managers, hedge fund managers, plan administrators and clearing agents. In addition, we also provide professional services that focus on application implementation and integration of these solutions and on custom software development.