FOCUS^SQL System Overview

Financial trading technology has become increasingly expensive and difficult to implement in recent years. We at Intermark do not believe this should be the case. Our solution, FOCUS^SQL, is the most cost-effective industrial-strength trading and risk management system available - without any compromise of functionality. And its typical installation cycle is much shorter and a lot less painful than that of other systems in the market.

FOCUS^SQL is a fully integrated system offering front-to-back-office capabilities, including pre-execution valuation, trade entry, position keeping, counterpart limits, customer margin management, and full post-execution features like reporting, transaction processing, risk management, P&L, Value-at-Risk calculations, cash flow management and more.

FOCUS^SQL covers a wide variety of financial instruments that are grouped into 13 modules. Each module covers different markets and instruments and has full position-keeping, risk management and back-office functionality. Modules can be combined and matched in any combination, and enable a wide range of businesses to manage their entire trading activity, with uniform user interfaces, a common database of trades, counterparts, limits, payments, aggregated portfolios and so on.

FOCUS^SQL is currently being used in major financial institutions worldwide, ranging from banks to hedge funds, corporations to broker/dealers. In just about every case we have provided integration services as well as deep product customization and integration with legacy systems.

Key Features:

Broad market coverage:

• FX/MM
• FX options
• FX margin trading including option margining
• Fixed income
• Emerging markets fixed income
• Fixed-income repurchase agreements
• Equities and equity derivatives
• Base metals and derivatives
• Precious metals and derivatives
• Energy and energy derivatives
• Interest rate derivatives
• Equity/fixed-income margin trading
• Soft commodities
• Weather and emission products, including derivatives

• Spot and forward
• Vanilla and exotic options
• Exchange-traded instruments
• FX, interest rate and commodity swaps
• Baskets, strips, leases and loans

• Pricing and fair-market-value calculations
• Trade entry and position keeping
• P&L, mark-to-market and mark-to-theoretical, including real-time
• Risk scenarios, analysis of sensitivity to price, interest rate and volatility changes
• Value-at-Risk and Earnings-at-Risk calculations
• Middle-office functionality like counterpart limits, books and brokers management
• Back-office features like settlements, payments, events and cash flow management
• Full set of static reports with rich text and graphics, dynamic reports for real-time margining
• Tools for customer sales departments

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