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Areas of Application

GAIN Risk Management can be applied in many areas

  • Market Risk Management: Calculate Value at Risk | Calculate other risk and performance measures | Attribute specific risk components | Easily switch valuation currencies, benchmarks and yield curves | Actively identify and steer risk exposures

  • Credit Risk Management: Analyse the influence of term structure effects | Support of JPMorgan CreditMetrics® and CreditRisk+| Define custom yield curves and apply shocks to yield curves

  • Operational Risk Management: Basel II compliant operational risk module | Definition of mitigating actions | Data quality checks | Workflow control and exception handling

  • Pricing / Mark-to-market: Compute theoretical prices with extended support for derivative instruments and structured products | Define proprietary benchmarks using model portfolios or synthetic instruments and baskets

  • Asset Allocation: Assign positions to portfolios using Boolean operators | Extract user specific reports and store allocation definitions for further use

  • Simulation: Apply scenarios, stress tests and simulations to portfolios and groups | Use Monte Carlo simulations to analyse the foreign exchange and price effects of buy and sell transactions | Supports Boolean operators for defining groups

  • Workflow Management: Define conditions and rules for routing and archiving data and reports

  • Exception Handling: Clean and reconcile several data sources | Define the desired exception handling and quality checks for faulty data

  • Limit Management: Use flexible triggers and alarms if limits or thresholds are broken | Initiate workflows (e.g. notification by e-mail) | Support of volume, performance and risk limits

  • Data Visualization: Use consolidated out-of-the-box or customized risk and performance reports and enrich them with data from your internal applications


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