Deployment of a unified interface for pricing of FX and Equity Derivative products, enabling significant efficiency, for a large Europe based Investment Bank

Client: A Europe based large investment bank

 

Objective

 

  • Develop a single interface for pricing FX and Equity Derivatives structured products

 

Challenges

 

  • Multiple pricing systems and inconsistent market data feeds
  • Different naming conventions and formats of the data across Pricing and booking systems

 

CRISIL's solution

 

  • Designed and developed highly scalable, customizable, XML template-driven framework for rapid development
  • Developed workflow support, PV, Greeks, market data manipulators, straight-through booking to Murex/Imagine, Chat, Transitions, Archiving, REST-based access to trade data also used for effective reporting
  • Developed risk farm interface for complex calculations 
  • Used technologies such as WCF C#.NET and Oracle Coherence Cache
  • Provided BAU support in pricing and generation of risk numbers
  • Provided customized and auto-generated term sheets, which significantly improved efficiencies

 

Client impact

 

  • Reduced development effort for exotic products and vanilla strategies using a template-driven framework
  • Resulted in effective reporting of the trade data due to auto generated terms-sheets
  • Reduced the time to market the new complex exotic product to less than 80 man hours, on average

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