Front Arena for the Sell-Side

SunGard’s Front Arena delivers the performance, control and flexibility you need to compete more aggressively in today’s volatile and fast-changing markets.  Accurate pricing, hedging and quoting, support for virtually any instrument and a scalable, user-friendly interface make Front Arena one of the top programs for financial institutions worldwide.  It covers all traded products, liquid and illiquid, OTC and exchange-traded, standardized and structured. True straight-through processing and intelligent workflows helps give your firm greater control over the entire trade process.

Features

  • Boasts fully integrated workflows from trade capture, pricing, position keeping and P&L to risk management and processing
  • Provides more accurate risk assessment for structured products and easy identification of risk in cross-asset-class portfolios
  • Accesses internal pools of liquidity with MiFID-compliant Systematic Internalization functionality
  • Represents a configurable, scalable and open architecture
  • Has extensive open documentation detailing all models and workflows complementing our Front University certification process
  • Utilizes the power of grid computing

Benefits

  • Helps automate trading processes across the entire trade lifecycle
  • Helps enhance performance and deliver superior calculation speeds for large portfolios
  • Offers flexibility in user interface and open architecture functions on Unix, Linux, and Windows
  • Supports settlement, confirmation, accounting and middle-office functions to help automate front- to back-office operations
  • Empowers your IT department with the knowledge and ability to fully add new derivatives instruments to your STP workflow
  • Demonstrates solid performance with benchmarked processing of 400 trades per second