Armanta’s customers include investment banks, hedge funds and some of the largest money management firms in the world – several with over 500 billion USD under management.
Some typical uses of Armanta in financial services:
A $300 Billion international fund manager needed to overhaul its manual, spreadsheet-based portfolio management operation. In just six weeks, Armanta went from specification to production deployment greatly automating the investment process and adding levels of sophistication that were not previously possible.
A large US-based institutional manager was using aging systems that could not handle complex structured products. Within two months, a system was delivered to portfolio managers that was able to provide all of the desired capability. In addition, the added capabilities of the Armanta platform enabled the delivery of capabilities that would have been too complex to consider in the existing technology.
Armanta replaced three maintenance-intensive, home-grown legacy systems with a single, integrated system for one of the largest investment managers in the world. The solution greatly reduced the workload on the end-user while providing more capability and significantly better performance and capacity. This solution was integrated and running within two months. Deployment of the Armanta solution was done without any impact on existing systems.
Portfolio Management Managing today’s sophisticated portfolios requires technology that can easily integrate a diverse set of complex investment instruments in a manner that fits seamlessly into unique investment processes. Armanta can quickly integrate with the most complex sets of data, calculations, and wide-ranging user interactions to meet the most complex needs with much less effort than previously possible.
Enterprise Risk Management Enterprise risk management is a complex analytical activity which requires the incorporation of data and calculation from large numbers of systems and sources. Armanta’s scalability enables the integration of huge amounts of information and the related calculations in a manner that allows for both systematic and ad hoc analysis. Deployment of these solutions is accomplished in a fraction of the time and effort typically required.
Cross-asset Trading It is a truism in financial services that today’s high-value innovation is tomorrow’s low-margin commodity product. Cross-asset trading requires integration across markets and data types that have operated independently, often with completely separate sources of data and separate management. Armanta can link the necessary data, feed the analytical engines and support automated trading.
“Armanta was able to meet a very specific set of requirements and address our unique investment process needs in much less time than we would have thought possible.”
Hans Lanslots, CTO
APG Investment US Inc, a wholly owned US subsidiary of APG Algemene Pensioen Groep NV,
a Netherlands based company that manages all assets of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP
one of the largest pension funds in the world.
