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