Acadia

Acadia is the leading industry provider of integrated risk management services for the derivatives community. Our risk, margin and collateral tools enable a holistic risk management strategy on a real-time basis within a centralized industry standard platform.

Acadia’s comprehensive suite of analytics solutions and services helps firms manage risk better, smarter, and faster, while optimizing resources across the entire trade life cycle. Through an open-access model, Acadia brings together a network of banks and other derivatives participants, along with several market infrastructures and innovative vendors.

Backed by 16 major industry participants and market infrastructures, Acadia is used by a community of over 2000 firms exchanging more than $1 trillion of collateral on daily basis via its margin automation services. Acadia is headquartered in Norwell, MA and has offices in Boston, Dublin, Dusseldorf, London, New York, Manila, and Tokyo. Acadia® is a registered trademark of AcadiaSoft, Inc.

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Acadia News

Derivatives

Acadia releases 12th update of ORE

The latest release of the Open Source Risk Engine completes a financial instrument rollout across all risk classes covered by the service

Regulation

EBA releases final draft standards for IM model validation

The European Banking Authority has released its final draft regulatory technical standards on Initial Margin Model Validation under EMIR which will be implemented through a phased approach dependent on a firm's size

Technology

Acadia launches Settlement Manager

The derivatives risk management specialist indicates that this will be first in a series of combined initiatives that will accompany London Stock Exchange Group’s proposed takeover of Acadia, announced in December

Technology

Acadia launches initial margin calculation tool

IMRA enables users to see the impact of changes on their initial margin calculations by automating tasks such as counter-party viewing and netting set level exposure changes

Acadia Features

Reducing the cost of capital through workflow automation

Acadia’s chief operating officer Scott Fitzpatrick says a continued focus on automation is required to mitigate the growing funding, liquidity and capital costs of posting collateral and represents a “game changer” for derivatives

A new era in collateral management

Collateral management in the derivatives space has been on a decade long journey that is nearly at its end with the final two phases on UMR on the horizon. AcadiaSoft’s head of community development Mark Demo, explores what happened and outlines what’s to come

A new collateralised world

Chris Walsh, CEO of AcadiaSoft, sits down with SLT to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on collateral management by accelerating automation, and explain the new concept of deep straight-through processing

Acadia Interviews

Donal Gallagher CEO Quaternion

Chris Walsh CEO AcadiaSoft

AcadiaSoft CEO Chris Walsh and Quaternion CEO Donal Gallagher discuss how their new joint entity brings a strong commitment to developing integrated risk management solutions that will help the industry navigate the many regulatory and cost challenges it faces