Regional Banks
By definition, your organisation is well-positioned to work alongside your clients. As their local provider, clients will turn to regional banks for top level service and also for the relationship which has been built and nurtured. A reputation for such service and expertise will allow you to grow your client base; Calypso can provide the support required to drive this growth.
Inadequate systems can restrict the ability to have a dynamic product offering to match global banks.
Calypso software solutions provide broad products coverage in order to meet most of your needs. Calypso allows you to combine different products to create packages. Also the ability to easily define new products with Calypso eXSP, link payoff to different asset classes with no coding and the immediate integration of any new product into the front and back office modules give you a clear advantage in innovation and in time to market.
A single cross-asset system designed to handle numerous products can help improve efficiency.
As the most innovative back office solution available today, Calypso software enables cost-efficient processing for all capital markets instruments. Calypso workflow enables the processing of any type of capital markets instrument with the required degree of STP. Calypso allows you to create different workflows for volume and for high margin businesses. Calypso gives the users one single entry point to monitor all necessary processing tasks. Most importantly the application can adapt to your business logic without the need for coding. The ability to trade seamlessly across asset classes from front to back demonstrates a broad range of expertise to clients and enables greater innovation in terms of generating trade ideas.
Consolidated risk across product areas needs to be accessible in real-time.
As a fully integrated solution with real time capability, Calypso can provide a complete, accurate and timely view of risk exposure. At the desk level, Calypso “What-if” scenario tool provides advanced risk reporting and the ability to drill-down into positions. This scenario tool allows you to apply perturbation to any market data, apply these perturbations on any asset class and get immediate results on your risk, hedge recommendation and P&L. Calypso ERS offers state of the art VaR analysis combined with a powerful real time limit management system for market risk, counterparts, issuer limits, etc.
Horizontal and vertical integration between systems can be a challenge.
The Calypso software solutions have been designed from inception as a single system with rich functionality from the front to the back office. The solutions have been developed in an organic fashion to support a wide range of trading activity, from bonds to structured credit derivatives, from cash FX to exotic FX options, from vanilla interest rate swaps to more complex hybrid products, all these simple and complex instruments are seamlessly integrated into the Calypso front, middle, risk and processing framework. Calypso is a tightly integrated software platform which supports all capital markets trading to create synergies between your trading teams, support teams and enable views across different markets.
Business logic from global players can assist in refining your operating model.
Calypso is a battle-tested solution used by several major banks for both volume business and high margin exotic products. Major global players have been using Calypso modules for years. With information gleaned from numerous successful implementations, Calypso has developed 'Best Market Practice' processes and made these available within the solution. Additionally a suite of market standard interfaces, like DTCC, Reuters, Swapswire, Markit and Bloomberg, complements the rich functionality which exists within the solutions.>
Systems upgrades can result in significant costs in time and resources.
Calypso's incremental approach to providing different versions, backed up with extensive easy to use scripts and a powerful database schema in XML, make the upgrade process straightforward. The separation between Calypso and client code means upgrades can be more easily accomplished. Calypso maintains backward compatibility, regardless of the version you are upgrading to.