Insights
Business Intelligence Internship – Summer 2016
As part of our continuing effort to foster excellence in our product offerings, we host a demanding, ongoing internship program for college students. We’ve offered internships for more than a decade, but this season’s effort was different, as it focused on combining modern business intelligence tools with our own risk analytic platforms and APIs to develop financial dashboards and reporting tools for the investment community.
Negative Interest Rates
Negative interest rates are a new and strange phenomenon. This concept causes a lot of head scratching, particularly regarding option valuation and VAR calculation, since the lognormal paradigm, applied for the last thirty years, breaks down.
Brexit: Imagine the Consequences
This month, June 23rd to be precise, is set to deliver a potentially very large shock to financial systems in the UK, across Europe, and globally too. Both the buy and sell side point to sharp falls in risk asset valuations in the event of a Brexit.
Imagine Software Announces Most Popular Risk Apps
NEW YORK– May 10, 2016 – Imagine Software provides front-to-back office risk and portfolio management to asset managers, investment banks, prime brokers, hedge funds, and institutional investors of all sizes, strategies and complexities.
Imagine’s Pre- and Post-trade Compliance Solution
Imagine empowers users to make informed, risk-compliant decisions in the ever-changing regulatory environment with its robust Pre- and Post-trade Compliance Solution.
An Industrial Strength Recon System
In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, another layer of complexity in regulatory requirements has been added to the operational structure of investment management firms.
A Client Pain Point, Adding Securities, Solved
Did you know the most common request our clients send to our Data Support team is to add securities to the shared (or global) security master?
Imagine Wins Best Risk Management Product at US HFM Awards
NEW YORK– Febrary 25, 2016 – Imagine has been awarded "Best Risk Management Product" at the US HFM Technology awards held in New York City on February 22, 2016.
Applications for Every Financial Need
Imagine has off-the-shelf apps, creates custom apps – and our clients use our technology to create their own – with or without Imagine.
Imagine Takes Consecutive Win as Best Real-Time Portfolio, Risk and Regulatory Solutions Firm
LONDON – Febrary 1, 2016 – For the second consecutive year, Imagine Software has been named the "Best Real-Time Portfolio, Risk and Regulatory Solutions" firm by The Hedge Fund Journal. The award was announced at the January 27th celebratory dinner in London.
SITKA I/O Services Dashboard Demo
Imagine’s I/O Service users will delight in using the SITKA I/O Services Dashboard. This dashboard has the ability to easily setup and run I/O services without dealing with command lines and batch files while showing real-time progress.
’40 Act Dashboard Demo
Clients needed a solution to handle both portfolio and risk management while maintaining government compliance. The liquid alternative investment arena has grown rapidly, catching the attention of the SEC.
Imagine Software Starts 2016 With Five Award Nominations
NEW YORK – January 8, 2016 – Imagine Software, leading global provider of portfolio management, risk and regulatory solutions for financial firms worldwide, has been shortlisted in the following categories for the 2016 Hedge Fund Magazine (HFM) US Technology Awards:
The ’40 Act Solution: Easily Monitor Compliance for Liquid Alternatives
Imagine maintains a comprehensive database of their client’s portfolio data. What we’re best at is figuring out how to aggregate that data for an investor or the government in a way that allows us to provide limit data and transparency. We've become adept at reacting to the government and clients quickly with new aggregations of information.
Monitor Limits with the UCITS Dashboard–Flexible, Transparent, Customizable
Investment funds authorized for sale in Europe are governed by a set of regulations. These regulations are called Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities (UCITS).
Imagine Software Wins “Best Risk Management Product” at HFM Week’s European Technology Awards
NEW YORK – December 3, 2015 – Imagine Software, leading provider of portfolio management, risk and regulatory solutions for financial firms worldwide, received the award for "Best Risk Management Product" at the 2015 HFM Week European Technology Awards ceremony in London.
A Dashboard for any Imagine Implementation
Imagine’s I/O Services are an indispensable command line tool that invokes Imagine’s APIs for uploading, processing, and downloading data. This tool is a critical component of virtually every client’s use of Imagine, providing nearly one hundred different services. But have you heard about the SITKA I/O Services Dashboard?
We Have a Stress Test App – Check It Out
The Stress Test App is the latest addition to the current collection of customizable apps available in the Imagine Marketplace. Similar to the other simulation tools in Imagine, the Stress Test App uses archived data to stress current portfolios and generate robust historical simulations that estimate how a portfolio would perform under documented periods of extreme risk volatility.
A New, Flexible Stress Test Product
The stress test app is built on Imagine’s Consulting Team’s modus operandi, “Tell us what your risk technology need is and we can tailor whatever Imagine has to offer for you.”
Imagine Software Receives “Best Risk Management Technology Provider” Award from HFM Week
NEW YORK – November 4, 2015 – Imagine Software, a leading provider of global portfolio and risk management solutions for financial firms worldwide, received the award for "Best Risk Management Technology Provider" at the 2015 HFM Week US Hedge Fund Services Awards ceremony last week.