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Centerprise's solutions and services incorporate the best-of-breed providers for
market data, instrument reference
data, counterparty data, analytics, audit
and assurance, and technology solutions and services.
Our partners share the understanding of the importance of efficient,
enterprise-wide platforms for delivering cost effective business-to-business
solutions for the financial services industry.
Centerprise has formed strategic partnerships with numerous
firms to implement its objectives. The key partners include technology companies,
data content providers, system integrators and large public accounting firms.
As its technology partner, Centerprise has selected IBM based on its strength
in e-commerce software products and solutions to support Web-enabled, distributed
application frameworks. Centerprise is making use of various IBM products,
including IBM SanFrancisco, IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM MQSeries.
Partnerships among content providers include: Dun & Bradstreet for counterparty
reference data and LJS Global Information Services and FAME for market data,
time series and instrument reference data. Partnerships with analytic vendors
include Andrew Kalotay Associates, Inc. and Andrew Davidson & Co. A partnership
has also been formed with Intex Solutions to provide Centerprise with both instrument
data and analytics. Discussions are currently being held with several other
data content and analytic vendors. Below is a more detailed description of our
current reference data and analytic vendors with links to their respective websites.
Technology Solutions and Services
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate. It is focused on delivering customized,
flexible and scalable Internet solutions for companies of all sizes.
Centerprise has built a large number of application services
upon key IBM technology platforms and products as they enable us to seamlessly
integrate our applications and data with those of our partners and clients.
As a result, our solution is well- suited for the needs and demands of e-business
applications as well as enterprise-wide applications. Our partnership with IBM
also provides access to its global network of infrastructure and integration
support services, which is key to a successful deployment of CenterSphere within
your enterprise.
Market, Time Series, and Instrument Reference Data
FAME Information Services, Inc.
is a global leader in delivering time-series data management solutions for quantitative
and economic analysis and risk management and research. FAME serves 80% of the
top global investment banks, 80% of the top US fund managers, 11 of the largest
European central banks, the US Federal Reserve System and leading financial
Internet sites. FAME is also one of the largest suppliers of historical data,
providing over 60 commercially-available, historical databases covering pricing,
index, reference, fundamental and estimates data, which are cleaned and reformatted
by FAME and updated nightly.
Centerprise has integrated FAME's time-series database technology
into its architecture. Data supplied by FAME is used to calibrate Monte Carlo
simulations, drive historical simulations and for reference data management
purposes.
LJS
is well-known for its Fixed Investment Securities Database (FISD), the most
comprehensive collection of publicly offered U.S. corporate bond data available.
FISD contains issue detail on over 90,000 corporate, corporate MTN, supranational,
U.S. Agency and U.S. Treasury debt securities with over 450 fields of information
on a wide range of debt securities. FISD supports Centerprise’s portfolio and
analytics modules.
Analytic Libraries
Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc.
provides consulting services, litigation support, and risk analytics for mortgage
and asset-backed securities. The Vectors™ analytics library currently offers
prepayment models for both fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, prepayment models
for asset-backed securities, option-adjusted valuation and risk management tools
for MBS, ABS, CMOs, and interest rate processes. The company's unique blend
of consulting experience and expertise with cutting-edge quantitative methods
allows it to combine decades of Wall Street experience with the most advanced
modeling techniques to produce informed, effective third-party software. CenterCalc
includes these high quality, broad mortgage-backed and asset-backed analytics
as part of its analytic offerings.
Andrew Kalotay Associates,
Inc. (AKA) is a leading authority on corporate and municipal debt management.
AKA provides trading-quality analytics to fixed income market participants,
including major investment banks, financial information services, and asset
managers. AKALIB™ is a rigorously developed, thoroughly tested library of valuation
functions for the universe of fixed coupon bonds, including step-up coupon,
callable, putable, amortizing and sinking fund bonds. It has been widely implemented
in trading and risk management systems by major investment banks and global
financial information services. CenterCalc incorporates AKALIB™ for valuing
straight and embedded-option bonds.
Intex provides an extensive, accurate, and timely set of structured securities
deal models and data, covering a wide range of ABS (home equity, manufactured
housing, credit card, auto, student loan, etc.), CMBS, residential CMO,
and CDO (including CBO and CLO) deals. Intex provides a complete set of
analysis for any tranche within its structured securities database of over
10,000 deals. This information is kept as fresh as the latest available
data. CenterCalc provides ABS and CMO analytics from the Intex Subroutines
library and databases, in concert with Andrew Davidson & Co.’s Vectors™.
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