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RISK & MARGIN SERVICES

For over three decades, Softek has empowered a wide range of financial institutions with market‑leading technology designed to deliver complete visibility and control over margin and risk. Our solutions simplify complexity, strengthen oversight, and ensure your firm operates with confidence in fast‑moving markets.

POWERING RISK MANAGEMENT FOR MODERN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Softek’s Risk & Margin platform provides the speed, transparency, and depth required by broker‑dealers, prime brokers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and stock loan & repo desks. Our system continuously ingests trading, market, position, and financing data to deliver a complete view of exposure across strategies, asset classes, and accounts. With real‑time margin calculations, configurable rules, and automated controls, your risk, operations, and compliance teams gain the oversight necessary to stay ahead of market moves while supporting clients at scale. High‑velocity analytics allow you to monitor concentration, liquidity, leverage, credit usage, and portfolio‑level exposures—while margin engines ensure appropriate capital requirements in all market conditions.

CONTROL AND CONFIGURE

Designed to deliver overnight, start‑of‑day, and real‑time intraday calculations across all assets classes, Softek provides the flexibility to define exactly how risk and margin controls are applied.

Key capabilities include:

  • Real‑time portfolio, risk or strategy‑based margin calculations,

  • Customizable firm‑specific rules for limits, concentration, and leverage

  • Automated alerts for intraday breaches, exposure changes, or rapidly shifting risk

  • Cross‑asset and cross‑account exposure aggregation

  • Integration with clearing, prime brokerage, lending, and financing relationships

Your teams can configure margin methodologies, haircut schedules, scenario overlays, and liquidation protocols so that risk controls reflect your unique supervisory approach.

TRANSPARENT. REAL‑TIME. ACTIONABLE.

The outcome is a centralized ecosystem that empowers your firm to proactively manage risk, strengthen capital protection, and support more dynamic trading strategies.

You gain the tools to identify issues early, respond quickly, and maintain confidence in both normal and high‑volatility conditions.

Capital & Margin Methodologies

  • Complete US Client Margin Coverage

    • Portfolio Margin

    • RegT including SMA and Day Trading Time-and-tick

    • RegU

    • Arranged Financing

  • 15c3-1 including RBH Firm and Marker Maker

  • CIRO Margin (Canada)

  • Highly Customizable House Margin Frameworks covering portfolio, stress, and/or scenario based methodologies

  • Simulations & WhatIFs

    • Hypothetical portfolio creation and testing

    • Real‑time recalculation of margin and risk impacts

    • Market shock scenarios across asset classes

    • Stress overlays on existing portfolios

    • Pre‑trade risk checks and approval workflows

RISK ANALYTICS

  • Maintain real‑time visibility into risk across all positions and accounts

  • Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho)

  • DV01 and fixed‑income sensitivities

  • Assignment and early‑exercise risk

  • 0DTE and short‑dated option exposures

  • Counterparty and issuer risk

  • User‑defined custom metrics and formulas

  • Holistic Exposure Visibility

    • Single‑name exposure aggregation across all accounts

    • Delta‑adjusted and derivative‑adjusted exposure views

    • Hedging effectiveness and offset analysis

    • Concentration and issuer‑level risk flags

    • Cross‑product exposure mapping

EXCEPTION MANAGEMENT

  • Streamline operational management of regulatory and/or customised exceptions

  • Automatic margin call generation and assignment

  • Real‑time call updates and status tracking

  • Automated attribution of how calls are met

  • Integrated communication and escalation tools

  • Automated exception aging

  • Customisable workflow process for each exception

  • Full audit trail for compliance and supervision

DELIVERY & INTEGRATION

  • SFTP file drops and scheduled report delivery

  • FIX and MQ messaging

  • Robust REST API framework

  • Customizable email alerts and notification

  • Full integration with clearing firms, PBs, OMS/EMS systems & internal book

  • Intraday monitoring of exposure, leverage, credit usage & concentration risk

  • Automated risk alerts and configurable escalation workflows

  • Margin impact modelling for new trades and pending orders

  • Complete calculation transparency for detailed analysis and supervisory controls

Ready to transform your operations? Let's talk about how Softek solutions can deliver the results your firm needs.

Option Risk Monitoring 

Explore how our cutting-edge solutions enabled a client to capture real-time risk exposures effectively. Our case study highlights the innovative approach used to identify high-risk accounts and manage challenges from complex option strategies.

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