CCP Risk Technology
Yields cross-asset, real-time risk controls to safeguard CCPs and optimize their business.
Full Risk Coverage – From Position Keeping and Collateral to Dynamic Limits and Data Aggregation
Specifically designed to address the sophisticated risk management needs of today's CCPs and exchanges, Nasdaq’s CCP Risk provides the functionality required to measure and manage risk in both cash and derivatives instruments, helping to ensure that risk breaches and violations do not go undetected. The solution takes a holistic, enterprise-wide approach to risk, leveraging multiple safeguards to empower early identification and resolution of issues before they become critical. A single implementation of CCP Risk can serve multiple clients or aggregate risk across multiple CCPs.
Because CCP Risk operates on the dynamic Nasdaq Financial Framework infrastructure, CCPs can expect industry-leading throughput and performance coupled with the scalability and reliability to keep CCPs successful and operational at all times.
Key Features of Nasdaq CCP Risk
By setting enterprise-wide limits, Nasdaq CCP Risk helps CCPs better manage their health and mitigate risk upfront by ensuring member activities meet pre-defined parameters without crossing risk thresholds. Additionally, risk checks cover cross-asset, cross-market analysis, ensuring a consistent, complete view of risk across the enterprise.
Comprehensive Risk and Collateral Management
Real-Time Position Keeping and Allocations
Robust Functionality for Setting Static and Dynamic Limits, Business Rule Definitions, Automatic Escalation
Root Cause Analysis for Limit Breaches
Plug-and-Play Risk Models with Ability to Leverage Proprietary Models
Seamless Integration to Trading and Clearing Solutions, Including Nasdaq-Built, Proprietary or Third-Party Systems
David Hoag, Chief Information Officer, OCC Read About OCC's Cloud JourneyWe started down this path to replace our core clearing and risk settlement systems with the objective of delivering a resilient and adaptable solution to be able to not only provide our core client services in a reliable way, but also add new capabilities quickly and bring things to market with a lot more agility.
Protect and Optimize your CCP with Nasdaq CCP Risk
Holistically Identify Risk Across Your Enterprise
A holistic view supports simple and complex data aggregation, enabling risk management on an integrated basis enterprise-wide across millions of transactions in multiple markets, currencies and asset classes.
Improve Transparency and Uncover Unidentified Risks
Strong data visualizations intuitively emphasize key risk indicators so that critical information is fully visible from a single screen at all times.
Reduce Excessive Margin Requirements and Optimize Use of Capital
Leveraging a number of risk models in parallel, CCP Risk provides the clarity and confidence required to lower excessive margin requirements.
Respond Quickly to Market Changes
Adaptable and flexible controls and infrastructure enable quick response to new market opportunities, crises or regulatory changes.
Reduce Operational Complexity
Lower complexity, minimize risk in manual error-prone processes and reduce total cost of ownership using a single, real-time, multi-asset class solution.
Improve Member Communication
Transparency into risk calculations, tests and margins enable more productive conversations with clearing members.
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