Financial

Thomson Reuters TopOffice

Thomson Reuters TopOffice is a real-time risk, P&L and liquidity management solution that consolidates key financial information in a timely and effective manner. It leverages a firm’s existing IT investment to provide consolidated risk, P&L and liquidity risk reporting across all portfolios, trading operations and geographies.  

With Thomson Reuters TopOffice, you can:

  • Manage multiple asset classes easily – access cross-asset functionality for the front and middle office, and add new instrument types quickly
  • Bring new functionality to market – reusable components accelerate delivery of new functionality
  • Consolidate your view of risk – to ensure a consistent view across multiple user-defined views including strategies, portfolios and geographies
  • Enhance your performance – generate better investment strategies based on more in-depth insight into your trading performance
  • Speed up integration – bring data, valuation models, pricing libraries and existing trading systems together to complement your infrastructure

Why choose Thomson Reuters TopOffice?

  • Real-time risk and P&L aggregation: integration of risk parameters and real-time consolidation & reporting
  • Rapid Integration of any internal and 3rd party analytics and pricing: consistent & universal risk measurement, comparison and pricing; fully open for integration of any pricing libraries in the matter of days
  • Daily assessment of Liquidity/Funding needs: accurately identify Refinancing Risk and Liquidity Gaps
  • Execution of trading decisions and hedging strategies: highly flexible real-time reporting and drill-down capabilities give better insight into drivers of a portfolio’s risk and P&L
  • Support for rapid product innovation: award-winning cross-asset technology supports GUI driven definition of new products, including complex structures and hybrids
  • Rapid deployment and integration into your IT architecture

Real-time Risk and P&L Aggregation

TopOffice serves as a central middle office repository, delivering consistent risk analyses and P&L across multiple asset classes and instrument types by accurately representing and modeling all data – trade, market, reference – from disparate front-office systems and data sources.

With TopOffice diverse risk and P&L information for credit derivatives, equity derivatives, fixed-income, FX & FX options, interest rate derivatives and foreign exchange/money markets, structured products, hybrids and plain vanilla instruments can be identified and monitored in a timely and accurate manner.

Consistent & universal real-time Risk Measurement

TopOffice provides a future proof system to run profitability measures, VaR measures, duration risk, interest rate risk, and sensitivity/scenario analyses across the largest portfolios.  Its technology allows you to introduce new or bespoke risk measures and scenarios, and integrate proprietary and 3rd party pricing libraries to price and value new products using the most appropriate pricing models.  

TopOffice relies on distributed and in-memory processing for fast computation of the most complex risk measures across portfolios consisting of multiple asset classes by:

Daily Assessments of Refinancing Structure / Liquidity & Funding Needs

TopOffice allows you to proactively manage liquidity risk and interest rate risk across all portfolios - banking, trading, structured - on a daily basis.  

Sophisticated real-time reporting to dirve Trading & Hedging Strategies

TopOffice delivers real-time, interactive risk reporting across all portfolios, trading operations, subsidiaries and geographies.  It allows you to generate dashboard-like reports to achieve fast and meaningful insights into the reporting results.

The interactive, visual capabilities of the dashboard reports allow you to easily see trends and unanticipated relationships in data with unprecedented speed and adaptability.

Rapid Innovation & Integration

TopOffice allows you to rapidly develop and deploy innovative middle-office and front-office solutions.

  • TopOffice provides a highly flexible framework made up of a set of fully supported, packaged objects that can be used to build a solution to meet your specific requirements.
  • Making use of standards-based (J2EE and .NET) development environments, TopOffice provides the infrastructure and tools you need to deploy new business functionality faster. By providing the components, tools, and services infrastructure for building and enhancing strategic applications, developers can easily build sophisticated new components via a plug-and-play approach.
  • TopOffice applications can be deployed via Internet Explorer or Swing. Operating systems supported include Sun Solaris and Windows NT. The TopOffice framework makes use of the following third-party software packages: Oracle, Sun, JDK, TIBCO Rendezvous, BEA Weblogic.
  • To integrate TopOffice applications with a bank's infrastructure, we use TopOffice Interpret - a tool dedicated to the mapping, integration and reconciliation of financial data. Integrating with a bank's existing systems can be up to 80% of the project effort when tens of systems have to be integrated. The use of TopOffice Interpret brings a minimum of 2x productivity increase when compared to traditional approaches.

As the #1 provider of Trade and Risk Management Systems globally, Thomson Reuters has the vision, understanding and technology to provide your organization with open and flexible solutions to address your business needs. Our global teams of risk consultants understand local market specificities and they have the experience and knowledge to help you meet your business requirements. Our goal is simple: to get you up and running quickly, while leveraging your investment in technology to date, allowing you to focus on what matters most - maximizing profit while staying ahead of the competition.

Global & Local

We are the largest risk management provider globally, with over 900+ highly skilled risk professionals serving over 750+ financial institutions in 83 countries. Our strong relationships and deep subject matter experience have made us a partner of choice for leading banks, corporates, institutional asset managers and hedge funds around the world.

Our global network of risk consultants ensures that we understand cultural and local market requirements. We recognize that country and industry specificities, such as regulatory reporting need to be effectively addressed. The building block approach of our flexible and open solutions can be quickly adapted to meet both national and organizational processes.

And as a Thomson Reuters solution, TopOffice is fully compatible across the wider Thomson Reuters product range, including desktop trading systems, data feeds and next generation transaction products.