Our Experts
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Dan Travers
- product manager, Adaptiv
- SunGard’s capital markets business
- dan.travers@sungard.com
Dan Travers is product manager for Adaptiv Analytics, a leading pricing and simulation engine, and Adaptiv Risk Cube, Adaptiv’s risk analysis tool. He is also responsible for leading Adaptiv’s CVA strategy and crafting the capital markets business’s risk management and credit pricing solutions.
Mr. Travers has more than 13 years’ experience in both trading and risk management within the financial and commodity sectors. His accomplishments include establishing a commodity trading risk management practice in his native Australia, managing SunGard’s Adaptiv Analytics engine from its inception, and providing other vendor solutions for the financial derivatives space. Mr. Travers is an established author who has contributed to a best-selling book on counterparty credit risk as well as written numerous whitepapers and industry commentary pieces.
Commentary
In recent times, due to the volatility in the credit markets, changes in the Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) have caused huge swings for banks' reported earnings. This increased volatility of P&L has elicited a commensurate increase in scrutiny of CVA and how to manage it. CVA is about understanding risk numbers quickly. However, most front-office systems cannot deliver CVA on an intraday or end-of-day basis. There are also challenges around data acquisition, computational performance and model flexibility.