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1 | RiskTech100® 2020 Winners’ Review

Powerful, interconnected forces are driving radical change in capital markets, including technology innovations, new business models, escalating client expectations, stiffer competition and complex regulatory requirements. It is imperative for market participants to adapt, and FIS has been recognized for the technology and risk services it offers to help firms meet these challenges.

FIS’ cross-asset solution covers all major risk types, including market, credit and liquidity risk. Its end-to-end solution covers processes from loan origination to balance sheet optimization, while also delivering liquidity management and stress-testing via a single, consolidated, front-to-back technology platform. It also ensures compliance with a wide range of regulatory and reporting requirements.

The company’s real-time capabilities gather, cleanse and validate all the market data

required for its clients’ calculations, providing independent valuations, running calculation models and reporting on results. Its solutions make complex calculations and risk analytics easier and more affordable for buy- and sell-side firms, while delivering the most complex calculations, such as valuation adjustments. Additionally, FIS’ solutions enable the alignment of traditional risk silos by supporting current and forthcoming regulations – such as the

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, the standardized approach to counterparty credit risk, uncleared margin rules and the standard initial margin model – from the same technology stack and data.

Its regulatory reporting service is built on its sophisticated balance sheet management platform, providing advanced analytics, a detailed audit trail, drill-down capabilities and the ability to demonstrate 100% accuracy to regulators.

Front Office Risk Management and Sell-Side FIS

Martin Boyd, FIS

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The evolving profile of risk management within financial institutions is leading to trading, portfolio management and risk moving closer together. Covering both the trading and banking book, FIS’ integrated services provide a single, enterprise-wide view of risk, with real-time calculations and limit checks, aligning trading, treasury, risk, finance and regulatory reporting.

Martin Boyd, President of Capital Markets Solutions at FIS elaborates: “Future front-office decisions will be increasingly dependent on the enterprise-wide portfolio. It is imperative to connect the front-office platform with a robust risk solution. Such integration will support user-friendly interfaces that smoothly deliver position and portfolio data to the people who need it. It also streamlines data and processes for efficiencies and insights through the front, middle and back offices – supporting multi-asset class electronic trading and complex investment strategies.”

The launch of RaaS Within Capital Markets has been one of the biggest developments for FIS in the past year. “RaaS provides our clients with the flexibility to augment their existing in-house risk functions, or alternatively outsource. It significantly reduces the time taken to adopt the latest risk measures. By investing in well-integrated, multi-asset class

technology and cloud services that provide flexibility, we are helping to simplify complex technology landscapes and reducing the cost of ownership, while increasing insight. And, with each component available as a microservice, this provides rapid access to the analytics that clients need – at the point of need.”

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