Press Release: Nasdaq Enhances Risk Platform to Help Banking and Broker-Dealer Community Manage Real-Time Risk

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    Nasdaq Risk Platform

    Nasdaq's Real-time Risk Platform

    Strengthen transparency with sophisticated risk tools and aggregate exposure across markets, asset classes, regions, and accounts, all in real-time with Nasdaq’s SaaS-deployed, cloud-native Risk Platform. 

    Cloud-native Risk Management Technology, Built for Capital Markets

    Manage the risks that matter

    Multi-asset global coverage provides the transparency you need to address risk upfront while protecting at-trade and post-trade impacts across your own book, as well as your clients’ portfolios.

    Multi-asset global coverage provides the transparency you need to address risk upfront while protecting at-trade and post-trade impacts across your own book, as well as your clients’ portfolios.

    Change the paradigm of real-time risk

    With streaming real-time risk analytics available via Kafka, you can ensure that your analyses are always leveraging the latest data to empower critical decisions with stress test results, VaR results and ability to position P&L and market data details.

    With streaming real-time risk analytics available via Kafka, you can ensure that your analyses are always leveraging the latest data to empower critical decisions with stress test results, VaR results and ability to position P&L and market data details.

    Get to market faster

    Nasdaq Risk Platform’s cloud-native infrastructure coupled with pre-configured & built connectivity across a wide range of markets, instruments and data execution providers empowers client onboarding in as little as 6 weeks.

    Nasdaq Risk Platform’s cloud-native infrastructure coupled with pre-configured & built connectivity across a wide range of markets, instruments and data execution providers empowers client onboarding in as little as 6 weeks.

    Continuously enhance your risk practices

    New releases are deployed every 3 weeks so that you’re always aligned with the latest enhancements and product evolution.

    New releases are deployed every 3 weeks so that you’re always aligned with the latest enhancements and product evolution.

    Driving Risk Agility for a Wide Array of Capital Markets Constituents

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    Improve capital efficiency while elevating customer relationship management

    For prime brokers

    Aggregate live positions with views of margin and exposure across trading venues and across your book of business to help you protect your business while improving capital efficiency and empowering growth. Offer users a consolidated view of risk across a broad range of asset classes including Fixed Income, Equities and Equity Options, Exchange Traded Derivatives and Foreign Exchange

    Aggregate live positions with views of margin and exposure across trading venues and across your book of business to help you protect your business while improving capital efficiency and empowering growth. Offer users a consolidated view of risk across a broad range of asset classes including Fixed Income, Equities and Equity Options, Exchange Traded Derivatives and Foreign Exchange

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    Accelerate revenue impact, decreasing operational risk and regulatory exposure

    For investment banks & broker-dealers

    Manage market swings with confidence leveraging aggregated live positions and transparency into trading exposure across exchanges in a single view. Help manage regulatory needs under MiFID II, RTS, SEC rules 15c3-1 a (6) and 15c3-5, while also empowering capital deployment optimization.

    Manage market swings with confidence leveraging aggregated live positions and transparency into trading exposure across exchanges in a single view. Help manage regulatory needs under MiFID II, RTS, SEC rules 15c3-1 a (6) and 15c3-5, while also empowering capital deployment optimization.

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    Service your clients more effectively, increase profitability and facilitate growth at scale

    For clearing brokers

    Gain real-time visibility into trades, positions, margins and exposures across exchanges, clearinghouses and your entire book of business to identify cross-client risk upfront while enabling improved capital allocation and client responsiveness.

    Gain real-time visibility into trades, positions, margins and exposures across exchanges, clearinghouses and your entire book of business to identify cross-client risk upfront while enabling improved capital allocation and client responsiveness.

    commodity brokers and energy trading firms

    Limit exposure to price swings and distortions in supply and demand

    For commodity brokers & energy trading firms

    Increase agility in your business strategy. Nasdaq Risk Platform provides visibility and controls to help you become more sophisticated in your hedging strategies while helping you unlock capital to deploy on opportunistic investment activities.

    Increase agility in your business strategy. Nasdaq Risk Platform provides visibility and controls to help you become more sophisticated in your hedging strategies while helping you unlock capital to deploy on opportunistic investment activities.

    Press Release

    Nasdaq Enhances Risk Platform to Help Banking and Broker-Dealer Community Manage Real-Time Risk

    This major release includes enhancements to help the sell-side better navigate extreme market conditions, providing a live view of risk across proprietary and client trading portfolios with detailed analytics to support real-time decision making. 

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    Key Features of Nasdaq Risk Platform

    See Why Nasdaq Risk Platform is Growing 50% YoY

    Number of customers using Nasdaq Risk Platform increased by over 50% in the last 12 months, reflecting substantial increase in demand for real-time risk capability.

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    24/7 multi-asset coverage across equities, derivatives and commodities venues globally

    Real-time margin replication to reduce credit and liquidity risks

    Exposure management related to Regulatory Capital and Client Asset Protection

    Calculate Value-at-Risk (VaR), risk scenarios, portfolio margin, and limit checks for each account

    Cloud-native SaaS solution built using an open-source software stack

    Rapid delivery of new functionality in line with market changes every 3 weeks

    Real-time P&L, theoretical pricing, stress testing and VaR calculation of fixed income products, such as government bonds, corporate bonds, and convertible bonds.

    Intraday stress testing tools that are help isolate and manage specific risks within large and complex scenario sets

    24/7 multi-asset coverage across equities, derivatives and commodities venues globally

    Real-time margin replication to reduce credit and liquidity risks

    Exposure management related to Regulatory Capital and Client Asset Protection

    Calculate Value-at-Risk (VaR), risk scenarios, portfolio margin, and limit checks for each account

    Cloud-native SaaS solution built using an open-source software stack

    Rapid delivery of new functionality in line with market changes every 3 weeks

    Real-time P&L, theoretical pricing, stress testing and VaR calculation of fixed income products, such as government bonds, corporate bonds, and convertible bonds.

    Intraday stress testing tools that are help isolate and manage specific risks within large and complex scenario sets

    Nasdaq Pulse: Nasdaq Risk Platform V4.0

    Malcolm Warne, Vice President & Head of Risk Product discusses the latest enhancements to the risk management platform, how Nasdaq Risk Platform is well positioned to help market participants meet the needs of today’s markets, and more.

    Asset Class Coverage

    Cash Equity & Equity Options

    Exchange Traded Derivatives & Fixed Income

    FX

    Bullion

    Energy Futures & Options

    ETD Commodities

    What are the Benefits of Nasdaq Risk Platform?

    How Can Nasdaq's Risk Platform Help You?

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    Flexible and functionally rich, Nasdaq Risk Platform can benefit organizations firmwide to efficiently assess, understand and proactively manage risk exposure in aggregate. Empowered with real-time insights and risk analytics, key team members can communicate with clients earlier and optimize capital allocation and deployment while mitigating operational and regulatory risks upfront.  

    Traders

    Monitor the real-time effects of market swings on your entire portfolios with deep visibility into P&L, limits and open order exposure for a holistic, aggregated view of your book. Leverage what-if analysis and other sophisticated tools to assess the impact of additional trades on your book.

    Risk Managers

    Understand firmwide trades and positions in real-time against defined limits with proactive notifications before a limit is breached. Employ real-time analytics across a portfolio of tools to evaluate your risk profile against several scenarios and parameters.

    Account Managers

    Assess clients’ trades and positions in real-time against the account-level limits and receive notifications when a client is in breach of a limit, to proactively communicate.   

    Executive Management

    Dive into both client-by-client and desk-by-desk exposure over a time horizon to empower constructive discussions on limit utilization, capital utilization, performance, regulatory or operational risks and a variety of other time-sensitive strategic decisions.    

    Traders

    Monitor the real-time effects of market swings on your entire portfolios with deep visibility into P&L, limits and open order exposure for a holistic, aggregated view of your book. Leverage what-if analysis and other sophisticated tools to assess the impact of additional trades on your book.

    Risk Managers

    Understand firmwide trades and positions in real-time against defined limits with proactive notifications before a limit is breached. Employ real-time analytics across a portfolio of tools to evaluate your risk profile against several scenarios and parameters.

    Account Managers

    Assess clients’ trades and positions in real-time against the account-level limits and receive notifications when a client is in breach of a limit, to proactively communicate.   

    Executive Management

    Dive into both client-by-client and desk-by-desk exposure over a time horizon to empower constructive discussions on limit utilization, capital utilization, performance, regulatory or operational risks and a variety of other time-sensitive strategic decisions.    

    Nasdaq Risk Platform enables us to generate historical activity and allows us to get as granular as we want. In short, the flexibility has given us greater data insights into a single source of truth

    HilltopSecurities Bolsters Trade Visibility with Nasdaq Correspondent Clearing

    One of the largest clearing firms in the US improves operational efficiencies and clearing services by upgrading to Nasdaq Risk Platform

    Get Started with Nasdaq

    Request a Demo of Nasdaq Risk Platform

    Get in touch to see an in-depth demo of Nasdaq Risk Platform in action. 

    Effective risk management is essential for our diversified operations. We have worked with Nasdaq to develop a powerful real-time multi-asset risk management platform, which will further improve efficiencies within the business. 

    Sucden Financial Adopts the Nasdaq Risk Platform to Power Its New Multi-asset Risk Management System

    Sucden Financial, the global multi-asset execution, clearing and liquidity provider, has tapped Nasdaq to power its risk management system. Now live on Nasdaq Risk Platform, Sucden Financial has a fully interactive, cloud-based system that enables better visibility into real-time risk control and risk analysis.

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    Risk Platform Resource Library

    Information ranging from factsheets and informational documents on Nasdaq Risk Platform, to multimedia on Nasdaq products and related trends, to news and videos.

    Risk Platform Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

    Don't see your questions listed? Get in touch!

    A risk platform provides wide-ranging risk management infrastructure tools to help customers minimize risks in regulated, latency-sensitive, high-volume and global trading environments. With a risk platform like the Nasdaq Risk Platform, you can monitor and manage your aggregate risk exposure across markets asset classes, regions, and accounts in real-time. 

    Leveraging a cloud-based platform enables rapid scaling and real-time performance. Via a consolidated risk infrastructure, firms can generate efficiencies by removing multiple legacy solutions, helping to minimize operational risks and allowing firms to focus on core revenue generating activities. A SaaS deployment method can shorten customer time-to-market, increase customer ROI, and ensure a more frequent delivery cycle.  

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