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SOFTWARE
REAL-TIME PORTFOLIOMANAGEMENT,
RISK & REGULATORY SOLUTIONS FOR
FINANCIAL FIRMS
WORLDWIDE
O U R STORY
O U R CLIENTS
O U R SOLUTIONS
LONDON1st Floor, 30-31 HaymarketLondon, UKSW1Y 4EXTel: 44 20 7440 0700
HONG KONG13/F, Tesbury Centre28 Queen’s Road EastHong KongTel: 852 3929 2288
SYDNEYLevel 361 York StreetSydney NSW 2000Tel: 61 2 9350 8800
Corporate Headquarters
NEW YORK22 Cortlandt Street32nd Fl. New York, NY 10007Tel: 1 212 317 7600
CLEVELAND600 East Granger RdSuite 130Brooklyn Heights, OH44131Tel: 1 646 827 4431
CONTACT US
CONTACT US / 2TABLE OF CONTENTS / 3OUR STORY / 4 WHO WE SERVE / 5 IMAGINE BY THE NUMBERS / 6 IMAGINE INNOVATION / 7 APPLICATION SERVICES PROVIDER / 8FINANCIAL PLATFORM / 9DATA MANAGEMENT / 10REAL-TIME RISK & COMPLIANCE / 11RISK AGGREGATION / 12LIQUID ALTERNATIVES SOLUTION / 13CONSULTING SERVICES / 14CLIENT TESTIMONIALS / 15
SOFTWARE
Imagine Software, Inc. | 22 Cortlandt St., 32nd floor | New York, NY 10007 | 1-212-317-7600 (voice) | www.ImagineSoftware.com
Imagine Software provides real-time portfolio, risk management and regulatory solutions for the world’s leading banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, funds of funds and asset managers. Founded in 1993, Imagine delivers institutional-grade functionality and broad cross-asset instrument support for businesses of all size and complexity. Financial professionals around the globe rely on Imagine to launch tailored products, enter new markets, adjust business strategies and scale for growth. Contact us for more information at sales@imaginesoftware.com
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OURSTORYImagine helps financial firms of all sizes and complexity successfully navigate market risk, improve portfolio performance, deliver operational efficiencies and provide regulatory transparency – all from one integrated platform.
Real-Time Financial Risk Management
Whether your goal is to improve portfolio performance, monitor
and report global limits, perform stress tests, aggregate firm-wide
risk or deliver enhanced transparency, Imagine creates the integrated
solutions that fit your firm. Clients have access to live P&L and can
manage risk from anywhere in the world – intra-day, all day.
World-Class Technology Platform Imagine delivers the sophisticated and easy-to-use technology
that drives entire front-to-back office operations across portfolio
and risk management, operations and compliance. Our clients
use Imagine as a full-service cloud-based ASP and an enterprise
installation – we support all proprietary needs.
Imagine Software is a leading provider of real-time portfolio, risk management and regulatory solutions for financial firms worldwide.
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BANKS
Imagine provides institutional-grade
functionality and the broad cross-
asset instrument coverage that
supports every level of the firm and
effortlessly scales for growth. From
trading to operations to compliance
and more, Imagine is the front-to-
back-office engine that firms rely on
for comprehensive risk management.
BROKERAGE FIRMSBroker-dealers turn to Imagine for
our ability to deliver real-time pricing,
exposures and risk management for
the fastest-moving markets, trade-
by-trade and tick-by-tick – and for
solutions that enhance trade
reporting, performance and more.
HEDGE FUNDSImagine was the first to develop a
comprehensive compliance solution
for hedge funds facing increasing
regulatory scrutiny. Working directly
with our clients, Imagine created
a technology solution that simultaneously
tracks real-time limits, performs stress
tests and captures risk across all
portfolios.
WHO WE SERVE
FUNDS OF FUNDSFor funds that may not have direct
access to position-level data, the
Imagine Risk Aggregation Solution
(RAS) allows firms to view, compare
and report risk exposures across all
underlying funds and investments.
PENSION FUNDSWith Imagine’s advanced data and
analytics, pension funds can monitor
investment, regulatory and demographic
trends – or any other selected field –
that impacts a plan portfolio. Imagine
sources underlying data directly from
administrators and prime brokers.
ASSET MANAGERSImagine’s time-to-market in installing
proper and relevant portfolio and risk
management systems is second to
none. We have managed hundreds
of integrations and built thousands
of ready-to-go interfaces with leading
third-party systems to facilitate the
smooth transfer of data.
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BY THE
MILLION7 A G G R E G A T E D P O S I T I O N S
150+p r o d u c t s c o v e r e d
85%MORE THAN
of Imagine clients run or build applications with the Imagine
Financial Platform
DAILY PRICES ARCHIVED ON
90,000EXCHANGE-TRADED INSTRUMENTS
OVER
Multi-factor tools can shock up to
FACTORS17
NUMBERS
RISK-MANAGED CLIENT ASSETS
$5 TRILLION
ready-to-go interfaces
O V E R 250
of trades per second across
MILLIONSOF POSITIONS
RUN THOUSANDS
15 MILLIONDAILY TRADES
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A G G R E G A T E D P O S I T I O N S
Imagine continues to
outpace the industry
with solutions and
products that address
the complex needs of
our financial clients
around the world.
Our cloud technology – the industry’s
first – is still the most innovative.
Today, users tap directly into our
technology platform to create
bespoke applications for proprietary
and other functionalities that can be
employed in a matter of days – on
their own or with Imagine, as they like.
More than 85% of Imagine’s clients
now run or build apps for a full range
of risk, portfolio management and
compliance operations.
Our newest innovation is a flexibly-
designed margin solution that allows
clients to calculate the margin
requirement on a portfolio utilizing
various exchange rules, Reg T. or
even “house rules” that a prime broker
would use. The margin requirement
calculations can be invoked
programmatically, and clients can
anticipate and avoid margin calls,
especially in turbulent markets.
Imagine’s regulatory and compliance
solutions are much in demand as
firms of all sizes look to manage the
evolving rules and reporting
requirements. Imagine’s ability to
slice and dice risk and portfolio data
helps companies simultaneously
track real-time limits, perform stress
tests, capture risk across the entire
portfolio, spot and correct compliance
breaches and deliver timely
transparency reports.
IMAGINE INNOVATION
APPLICATION SERVICES PROVIDER
With real-time pricing, security master, corporate actions processing, derived market data and 24/7 connectivity, Imagine’s ASP provides rapid, risk-free deployment of software technology, data and a full suite of services across departments and users.
A FULLY-SCALABLE SOLUTION — INTRA-DAY, EVERY DAY
The Imagine ASP solution is user friendly and provides
institutional-grade technology with broad asset class instrument
support. Our cloud-based solution can be accessed anywhere
in the world, at any time— and delivers live P&L and the ability
to manage multiple trading strategies.
w Achieve transparency through powerful and customizable risk
reporting capabilities
w Gain operational efficiencies with a hosted, integrated
system that is expertly maintained, upgraded and retains the
highest security standards worldwide
w Make informed investment decisions and confidently
manage risk
HANDS-ON DEVELOPMENT
Imagine is the only provider that manages the full chain of its hosted
solution— from software research and development to client
implementation and daily business operations. The firm’s expert
technical teams build, maintain and manage the state-of-the-art
technology and have extensive experience integrating Imagine
with all front- to back-end solutions.
INTEGRATED DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Imagine’s data team processes thousands of instrument updates
and corporate actions daily. From real-time ticking market prices,
yield curves, volatility surfaces and correlations, to global security
master and corporate actions processing, Imagine delivers all
the data and services (such as end-of-day marks, archiving, rate
resets, etc.) needed for proper investment management.
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The Imagine Application Services Provider (ASP) platform is a responsive solution for firms looking to upgrade their real-time portfolio management, risk and regulatory reporting capabilities. Imagine removes the burden of maintaining the world-class technology that financial services firms need to scale for growth.
“I’m continually impressed with the speed at which Imagine is able to add coverage and capabilities, as well
as its flexibility in creating new solutions that make it easy to slice and dice data
so my team can quickly see the possibilities across all of our holdings
and make more informed decisions.” HENDERSON GLOBAL INVESTORS
FINANCIAL PLATFORM
For complex business needs, clients access Imagine’s full range of custom applications and utilize our technology in a limitless manner to develop dedicated APIs and interfaces for proprietary system functionalities.
COMPREHENSIVE CROSS-ORGANIZATION SOLUTIONS
Clients looking to develop solutions for ever-more-complex
business needs tap directly into IFP’s full range of products,
services and applications that can be tailored for every client.
IFP makes building financial applications fast and easy:
w IFP provides standards-based APIs including web services,
JavaScript, Java and C# that deliver up-to-the-second data.
w Imagine supports proprietary institutional systems and works
closely with administrators worldwide.
w Clients have access to Imagine’s full-spectrum support and
consulting teams for daily and strategic developments.
The Imagine Financial Platfrom (IFP) is a cloud-based environment that provides users with programmatic access to Imagine’s risk and portfolio management analytics and data universe through standards-based web and desktop technologies.
of IMAGINE’s clients are deploying unique custom apps that cover the full range
of risk, portfolio management and
compliance operations.
85%
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SECURITY
MASTER
DERIVED
MARKETDATA
CLIENT
DATA(optional)
DATAUNIVERSE
MAR
KET
DATA
ENGINERISK & PORTFOLIO
APPs & APIs
DATA MANAGEMENT
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IMAGINE delivers real-time data on every listed product globally and the ability to aggregate firm-wide risk exposures, intra-day, all day.
w Portfolio Managementw Real-Time and Historical P&Lw Standard Risk Analyticsw Custom Risk Analyticsw Flexible Viewsw Data Visualizationsw Reporting
w Global Security Masterw Real-Time Market Dataw Historical Positions and Pricesw Correlations & Betasw Cross Asset Global Market Curves
Volatility • FX • Interest Rates • Dividends • Credit
w Full-Service Cloud-Based ASPw Traditional In-House Enterprise Solutionw Rapid Tailored Appsw Full-Access Imagine Marketplace
w Daily P&L w Position Maintenance of Supportw Corporate Actions Processingw IT Securityw Redundancy, Disaster Recoveryw Software Release Managementw Network and Database Administrationw Managed Third-Party Interfaces
Sof
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Platform Service
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Imagine supplies secure and reliable market data to facilitate pricing, valuations, risk management and compliance reporting.
COMPREHENSIVE DATA MANAGEMENT
Imagine ensures that the data required to make informed
investment decisions is accurate, readily available and delivered
directly through real-time data feeds.
From real-time ticking market prices, yield curves, volatility
surfaces and correlations, to global security masters and
corporate actions processing, Imagine delivers all the data and
services (such as end-of-day marks, archiving, rate resets, etc.)
needed for investment management, as part of the comprehensive
hosted ASP solution.
Imagine Data Center
Imagine provides cost-effective access to the data needed for all
day-to-day operations so clients can make immediate and sound
investment decisions – and deliver timely regulatory reports.
Global Security Master
Accurate global security terms and conditions for listed
securities and their derivatives, convertible bonds, fixed-income
instruments, credit indices and foreign exchange products.
Real-Time Feeds
Market data, including ticking market prices, is delivered through
real-time data feeds directly to the end user, enabling fast
analysis of investment risks and opportunities.
Operational & Strategic Efficiency
Imagine delivers software, data and services from a single
integrated platform and frees up clients’ internal resources to focus
on strategic demands.
RRC gives managers the ability to perform calculations on thousands of trades per second across millions of positions – and report regulatory data within compressed timeframes.
FAST AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK ANALYSIS
The Imagine RRC solution gives managers the ability to view
intra-day risk across positions, identify distressed situations,
drill down to spot problem accounts and take immediate steps to
reset portfolio risk.
w Achieve rapid real-time processing and risk aggregation
across portfolios
w Simultaneously track regulatory limits and investment risk
to remain in compliance
w Identify potential breaches of capital utilization and perform
institutional-grade due diligence across all asset classes
THE IMAGINE REAL-TIME ADVANTAGE
Imagine delivers a tangible benefit for financial firms
worldwide with our ability to combine user-defined analytics
and highly-customizable aggregation rules into a configurable
solution. We provide risk managers with a single tool to
investigate, identify and correct risk across the portfolio.
SIMULTANEOUSLY CONDUCT CRITICAL FUNCTIONS w Perform account triage with full drill down into suspect
positions and trades
w Set limits for user-defined analytics and multiple levels of
aggregation
w Quickly address client-driven changes across all variables
w Configure accounts with limit alerts and prevent further trades
w Integrate Imagine’s metrics for “what-if” scenarios
w Perform pre-trade risk compliance checks based on liquidity,
factor exposure or any user-defined need
w Access Imagine’s margin engine
w Expand your real-time environment as needed
w Deliver timely and well-presented transparency reports
“Imagine was the only third-party system we reviewed
that delivered the analytics needed to calculate the real-time risk on
cleared arbitrage trades.”
G.H. FINANCIALS
REAL-TIME RISK & COMPLIANCE
The Imagine Real-Time Risk & Compliance (RRC) solution supports clearing houses, prime brokers and asset managers working in high-speed and high-volume environments.
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The Risk Aggregation Solution (RAS) provides a comprehensive snapshot of firm-wide risk.
REVEAL YOUR TRUE RISK EXPOSURE
RAS gives financial firms that invest across multiple funds and
asset classes the ability to provide internal and external
stakeholders with meaningful risk reporting and transparency.
By independently sourcing, verifying, aggregating and normalizing
the fund-level data that investors typically cannot access —
then applying common sets of risk exposures and scenarios —
Imagine’s RAS provides a world-class framework for
comprehensive risk analyses.
RELIABLE FUND-LEVEL DATA
Imagine’s RAS sources the underlying funds’ position-level data
directly from administrators and prime brokers. Our data analyses
and slice-and-dice capabilities enable clients to:
w Calculate VaR across all underlying funds and at the total fund
level using a single methodology
w Conduct scenario and what-if analyses to assess potential
changes in risk levels
w Provide consistent sets of risk exposures and risk scenarios
IMAGINE’S RISK AGGREGATION TRACK RECORD
Imagine has more than two decades of real-time portfolio and
risk management experience working with financial institutions
worldwide. Our innovative data visualization is coupled with our
seamless loading of fund data and professional reporting
capabilities to produce an easy-to-use product for manging
complex financial data.
The Risk Aggregation Solution (RAS) provides a comprehensive snapshot of firm-wide risk.
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RISK AGGREGATION
The Imagine Risk Aggregation Solution (RAS) provides clients who do not have direct access to position-level data with the ability to view, compare and report risk exposures and analyses across all underlying funds and investments.
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Imagine delivers the ability to simultaneously track real-time limits, perform stress tests and capture risk across the entire portfolio to spot and correct compliance breaches.
Whether for Form PF, OPERA, 40 Act, AIFMD and newly-emerging
reporting requirements, Imagine’s technology platform can
automatically track and report firm-wide, country, sector and
industry limits, perform pre-trade compliance, deliver breach
notifications – and update as needed for the evolving rules.
Imagine’s Liquid Alternatives Solution puts time-sensitive
information right at the manager’s fingertips in a customized
dashboard that provides the ability to perform a range of
essential functions:
w Drill down to see and correct real-time limits breaches
w Create alerts for positions that are nearing limits
w Track trades that keep the fund in compliance
w Create a watch list to capture risk across the entire portfolio
w Stress the portfolio to see how market events can impact
performance
COMPREHENSIVE AND INTERACTIVE SOLUTION
Imagine Software manages and processes data on every listed
product globally and integrates it with our flexible portfolio and
risk management system. The result is a highly interactive
limits-monitoring tool that enables a fund, global administrator,
custodian or investor to keep track of positions, portfolio
restrictions, market risk and exposures.
LIQUID ALTERNATIVES SOLUTION
Asset managers of all sizes and complexity use the Liquid Alternatives Solution to expand into new markets and meet a range of regulatory demands with our comprehensive limits and tracking tools.
“Imagine was able to provide a customized, all-in-one solution
to simultaneously track regulatory limits and investment risk – which is
crucial in alerting us to potential breaches of guidelines and supports our ability to perform institutional-
grade due diligence.”
LARCH LANE ADVISORS LLC
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CONSULTING SERVICES
As business models evolve, companies tap into Imagine’s consulting expertise to support cross-organizational needs and ensure that every strategic development is explored to the fullest.
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Business leaders planning for the future work with our consulting
team to identify strategic needs, and Imagine delivers best-
practice recommendations, training and custom application
development. These services address client-specific requirements
—all while optimizing efficiencies across the firm.
CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT
Clients often identify the need for advanced customizations to take
full advantage of the extensible Imagine Trading System. Imagine’s
consulting team offers a variety of bespoke solutions to address a
full range of operational and strategic needs.
IMPLEMENTATION AND TRAINING
From onboarding through every facet of our clients’ strategic
development, Imagine is dedicated to ensuring that company
visions become reality through best-practices leadership, efficient
technologies and applications, product implementation, training
and support at every level.
Imagine Software’s consulting team works hand-in-hand with clients to ensure they derive the best value from our deep resources and targeted business solutions. Our global consulting team supports the full range of our clients’ business opportunities during the entire lifecycle of the relationship.
Client Expansion
Long-Short SupportA client began using Imagine to support the portfolio and risk management needs of its long-short business.
Expansion & Development The client expanded with a global macro strategy and additional offices.
Imagine created proprietary functionality and APIs that improved the processes for real-time risk analyses, added support to optimize specific strategies and automated manual tasks to mitigate errors.
Worldwide Risk ManagmentThe client now uses Imagine as its centralized portfolio and risk management system for its worldwide operations.
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Imagine can easily aggregate extremely complex
positions, capture risk, and manage derivatives, allowing us to successfully generate the returns expected by our
Wealth Defender investors. DAN BOSSCHER
PORTFOLIO MANAGER AT
PERENNIAL VALUE, AUSTRALIA
WHAT CLIENTS SAYFor asset managers who do not have a traditional
risk management background, or even for those
that do, Imagine can help to efficiently monitor and
assess risks, such as breaches in real-time, and
easily evaluate exposures, conduct stress testing,
and measure VaR. These are essential capabilities for firms looking to build investor confidence.
CHUDE CHIDI-OFONG CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER LEDBURY CAPITAL PARTNERS LLP | UK
SkyBridge became the
first customer to sign
up for Imagine’s new Risk
Aggregator product. Given
that risk management is so
critical to our business, we
evaluated the product and
several alternatives
very closely. It quickly became apparent that Imagine’s aggregation offering was the most sophisticated and flexible solution on the market.
TATIANA SEGALCHIEF RISK OFFICER | SKYBRIDGE CAPITAL | USA
We performed our due diligence and researched other
options but quickly realized that our old friends at Imagine
were still providing the best solution to meet our needs.
All these years later, I still trust them to look after us and help us manage our portfolios and minimize risk with their system and services.
HENRY KENNERCEO | ARROWGRASS CAPITAL PARTNERS | UK
We are delighted with the integration of
Imagine as our primary risk system
and Trading Screen as our major
Order Management System.
We needed to ensure seamless connectivity, and the Imagine and Trading
Screen teams successfully
launched full STP.
ELAINE DAVISCHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
NINE MASTS | HONG KONG
Imagine’s highly flexible and extensible risk management system is
years ahead of what is offered by most local ven-dors. This ability to scale is an essential element for us,
along with Imagine’s capacity to support risk analysis and
valuations encompassing the global derivatives market.
KONG WEI CHENGVICE GENERAL MANAGER OF RISK DEPARTMENT GF SECURITIES | CHINA
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IMAGINE real-time portfolio management, risk and regulatory solutions. Intra-day, all day.
Real-Time Solutions for Your WorldWhen markets are moving and clients, investors and regulators
are asking for transparency, can you measure your risk in real
time? Imagine gives you the ability to process and aggregate
risk across portfolios – across the entire firm – in real time.
We’ll deliver that solution for you.
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