Bangalore : 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.

Source : Sachin Murdeshwar