Products
DealRunner™
DealRunner Pro™, the core platform within the BookRunner Product Suite, is a comprehensive leading edge software package for institutional trading, servicing front and middle-office users. Designed to function across multiple trading desks and security types, DealRunner™ is a sophisticated real-time position keeping and risk management system, intended for use by global investment banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and hedge funds.
In an era of unprecedented volatility, DealRunner™ is particularly attractive to hedge funds and money managers looking for a one stop, scalable and cost effective solution; it combines sophisticated realtime position keeping, risk management, analytics integration, and middle ofice functionality. With its thin client architecture and ASP modules, DealRunner™ attains superior performance while requiring minimal infrastructure and support.
As part of its financial software suite, BookRunner offers a number of integrated solutions, which are designed to streamline global trading operations and facilitate STP.
Key Features
DealRunner™ offers specialized functionality for fixed-income products, with full support for Mortgage Agency Trading. It's position aggregation functionality coupled with a sophisticated pricing matrix make it the ideal platform for the modern Pass-Thru desk.
DealRunner™ supports most security types, including multi-currency fixed-income instruments and their associated hedging strategies. Traders have access to the following capabilities:
- Support for most financial products, with extensible data model
- Structured products and fixed-income derivatives
- Specified pools
- Portfolio Management, Pricing, and Analytics brought together in one concise interface
- Trading Strategies
- TBA matrix
- Rule-based bucketting
- Automated factor rebill
- Forward pricing
- Post-pool allocation upload
- Scenario analysis tools
- Hypothetical trades and positions
- Multiple prices per security
- Multi-Entity account setup
- Multi-Currency
- Integration with Bloomberg, Intex, and EMBS
- Integration with Analytics providers for realtime and overnight pricing
- Open architecture
- Flexible reporting engine, configurable by the user
- ETL Tools
- Robust APIs for custom development and integration
- STP with external systems, such as market data providers, ECNs, etc...
- Order Management
- Sales and Customer Breakdowns
Information Architecture
DealRunner™ leverages familiar GUI elements that have become common to most modern windows applications, arriving at a user interface that is state-of-the-art. It features an intuitive navigation system, floating windows, and extensive configuration options, setting a standard for Trading Software design for years to come.
Key features include:
- Uniform interface for accessing current and historical data - everything is in realtime!
- Extensive data mining tools with access to up to one year worth of transactions
- Highly flexible screen design lets the user filter, sort, aggregate, and define totals
- Excel-style grid configuration, with sophisticated options for formatting and formula assignment
- Configurable screen layouts saved with the user profile
- Floating windows
- Ability to open multiple blotters and position screens at any one time
- Familiar menu system conforming to today's UI design standards
- Sophisticated monitoring tools