Financial Instruments

Comprehensive instrument coverage

The universe of financial instruments is constantly expanding. New instrument features, asset classes and methods of packaging risk and return are continuously being brought to market. This trend is expected to continue and will present new investment opportunities. However, it also poses new operational challenges and risks. Crucial to SimCorp Dimension’s effectiveness is both its broad and comprehensive instrument coverage, and its built-in pricing and valuation capabilities, which extend across front-, middle- and back-office operations.

Broad instrument coverage

SimCorp Dimension can handle a truly exceptional range of financial instruments. It supports equities and fixed income securities, money-market instruments, foreign exchange contracts, standard exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, complex structured products and exotic derivatives. The system handles and supports events such as fixings, options exercising, resets, corporate actions and cash or physical settlement. Relevant event types can be generated automatically across portfolios on the basis of market holdings and securities held.

Support for new structured products and exotic derivatives

XpressInstruments is SimCorp Dimension’s award-winning solution for supporting the handling of complex and non-standardised instruments in a seamless environment. XpressInstruments dramatically cuts the time-to-market of investment ideas, and automates the handling of these instruments, thereby reducing operational risk. In addition to backing operational processes, XpressInstruments supports multiple market-tested pricing and valuation models delivered by FINCAD™.
FINCAD™ is a registered trademark of FinancialCAD Corporation and is used under license.

'Future-proof' – continuing commitment to R&D

New instruments and innovative ways of using existing instruments are constantly being devised. SimCorp’s commitment to the investment management industry is underlined by the company’s continued investment in R&D, in order to broaden the scope of instrument coverage as required and to ensure that all market challenges for the industry are addressed thoroughly.