Numerix & Eikos To Offer 'Numerix Powered' For epCatalyst Platform Users

Numerix, the provider of cross asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, along with Eikos Partners, a specialist in trading and risk applications for the financial industry, today announced their partnership to offer integrated access to Numerix Powered interactive

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Numerix, the provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, along with Eikos Partners, a specialist in trading and risk applications for the financial industry, today announced their partnership to offer integrated access to Numerix Powered interactive pricing, analytics and risk display solutions within the Eikos epCatalyst platform dashboard which is available now.

Users of the Eikos epCatalyst platform dashboard, based on the powerful and flexible Microsoft Silverlight technology, which includes portfolio managers, traders and risk managers, will be able to access the extensive Numerix CrossAsset library of independent pricing models and methods to price and generate risk sensitivities across all asset classes. The flexibility of the Numerix CrossAsset library coupled with the rapid development capabilities of epCatalyst, will allow developers to tie into the Numerix pricing and risk environments to create robust solutions. Eikos epCatalyst enables front and middle office professionals to do deal structuring and trade entry on the fly, as well as calculate pricing-risk analytics and drill down on the aspects of virtually any Numerix defined or structured deal via a high impact GUI dashboard and series of interactive display gadgets.

The tight integration of Numerix analytics within the Eikos epCatalyst platform offers users a powerful and robust pricing and risk solution. The wide variety of display solutions and available models means users can now value virtually any deal type using Numerixs different methodologies and custom model calibrations. We look forward to a successful partnership with Eikos and to providing our customers with new and exciting ways to access and display our world class analytics, said Steven R. OHanlon, President and COO of Numerix.

We developed epCatalyst to create a highly flexible environment with a superior user experience, which enables users to be able to visualize and interact with the complexities of the information and services supporting their business, states David Lattimore-Gay, Partner, Eikos. The combination of epCatalyst and Numerixs industry leading analytics services, brings this concept to an entirely new level, and allows our clients to create and view any pricing model and complex risk scenario using an intuitive interface in a few minutes across a diverse set of source systems.

The epCatalyst framework coupled with Numerixs pricing and risk management capabilities provides users with a stable platform, with all the display, communication, data, process management and integration tools needed to build sophisticated risk management applications that are essential for the financial industry.

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