Your All-In-One Platform:
Integrate, Build, Test, Deploy

Our open platform and shared code repository equips your teams with everything they need to integrate with existing systems and data, rapidly build, test, and deploy trading and risk applications, and customize analytics and models with unparalleled speed and efficiency.

Integrate

Learn how to integrate Beacon with your in-house systems, how to ingest and/or produce market data, trades, analytics and reports.

Amid growing pressure to operate in a multi-asset capacity, investment management firms of all stripes are looking to rapidly implement new strategies and adopt new instruments, considerably increasing the challenges of risk and data management.

We help you gain a consolidated view of risk and build new capabilities quickly, so your traders, risk professionals, and quant developers never miss an opportunity to drive greater portfolio returns.

Market Data Framework

plugin builds on the Market Data Framework to provide a simple and configurable way for users to access financial Data 

Integrate Services with Beacon

  • Excel Parser
  • AEMO Systems
  • ERCOT Systems
  • Snowflake
  • FIX-STP
  • RABBIT MQ
  • CONDA PYTHON

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Trade Ingestion Framework and Application

  • Load from a legacy system
  • Intraday booking from an external system
  • Synchronization with a master system

 

The Trade Ingestion Application sits on top of the Trade Ingestion Framework 2.0 to make it easier to visualize and interact with the APIs used to book deals.

Build

Beacon is a platform designed to help developer productivity by providing them with advanced enterprise infrastructure, services, controls, analytics, and toolkits. It is a top-to-bottom platform that includes a production environment with enterprise-class controls and resiliency, and lets developers focus on working closely with commercial users to build out their businesses.

WMP

Beacon’s elastic grid scheduler used for parallel compute jobs.

In Beacon desktop, the WMP Dashboard shows the status of the various compute pools and allows you to monitor jobs in real-time.

Each environment is configured to have a number of pools. WMP runs against the same elastic compute pools as Bob

Beacon IDE

The Beacon IDE is a customized version of  Visual Studio Code, integrated and tuned to work seamlessly within the Beacon Platform. 

Bob

Bob is Beacon’s native job scheduler. Its main user interface is the Bob dashboard, which you can use to see the real-time status of various jobs that has been set up for your domain. Bob can be used to run end-of-day batch jobs or start-of-day batch jobs, or to run intraday reports, and so on.

SDLC and BPM

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

SDLC is a process which defines how to develop, alter, maintain and replace a software system. A critical part of any SDLC workflow is the sign-off or approval process of new code before going into production.

Beacon Package Manager (BPM)

The Beacon Package Manager (BPM) Dashboard is a Beacon application that gives the ability to view and manage your SDLC Code Environments. 

Test

Asset Management

With increased competition, asset managers need to prioritize product innovation and operational efficiency to generate higher returns. Our cloud-based platform enables asset managers to centralize critical data and analytics, streamline trading and risk activities, and identify new opportunities in real-time.

Insurance

Inflation and interest rate uncertainty has pushed insurance companies to reach for yields in more complex financial instruments. With Beacon, insurers can centralize data and analytics across assets and liabilities, ensuring consistency of results, improving collaboration across teams, and optimizing yields while balancing risk.

Hedge Funds

Increased market volatility and regulation make it difficult for hedge fund managers to manage risk while remaining agile. Our cutting-edge technology is tailored to the unique needs of hedge funds, offering flexibility and customization to support complex trading and risk management strategies and regulatory reporting requirements.

Pension Management

Recent growth in pension assets has encouraged fund managers to increase their alternative asset allocation to deliver higher returns. Beacon’s cross-asset analytics, comprehensive risk monitoring, and flexible reporting tools enable pension managers to confidently meet long-term obligations while optimizing returns.

Our Packages

Over the years, our solutions for application development, cloud migration, and risk management have helped investment management clients overcome business and technology challenges and accelerate time to value. Here are some of the highlights.

 

The base application package builds on top of Beacon’s extensible platform and offers powerful, modular, and extensible cross-asset financial applications, instrument support, and elastic cloud infrastructure to accelerate trading and risk management use cases. This includes:

  • Pre-trade analysis
  • Trade capture
  • Post-trade analysis
  • Intraday risk and PnL reporting 
  • Scenario modeling
  • life cycle management
  • Workflow applications
  • Out-of-the-box support for rates and FX Instruments

 

This add-on includes everything from the Trading & Risk Package, plus flexible and integrable models to support high-volume equity trade aggregation and analysis, including:  

  • High-volume trade capture
  • Intraday risk reporting
  • Robust security measures
  • Integration of third-party tools
  • Streamlined workflows
  • Extensive coverage for equity instrument

 

This add-on includes everything from the Trading & Risk Package, plus comprehensive energy and commodities instrument support and powerful analytics, including:  

  • Risk and PnL reporting, stress testing, VaR, XVA
  • Tade ingestion framework e.g. Trayport
  • Back-office and operations applications
  • Flexible marking tools
  • Out-of-the-box support for North American and European energy & commodity instruments

Challenge

Extending capabilities of commodities portfolios to include real-time risk reporting, backtesting, and stress testing

Solution

A partnership to develop needed functionality on top of existing trading, risk management, and development platform

  • Integration with existing books of record and other legacy systems
  • Combination of standard and proprietary models and analytics
  • Transparent source code licenses for ownership of intellectual property
  • Front-office tools for analytics, visualizations, and risk and data management

Result

A flexible platform for aggregated exposure reporting, risk reporting, and stress and scenario analysis

Our Technology. Your Vision

Our platform is as powerful as it is versatile, helping investment management firms take full advantage of powerful cloud infrastructure tools, advanced application development workflows, and front-office applications.

Cloud Infrastructure

Scalable and controlled cloud environments delivering performance, security, and cost savings

Developer Experience

Collaborative tools and workflows to increase software development efficiency and accelerate time to market

Applications

Prebuilt and extensible tools for analysis, trading, and risk management

Portfolio Management

Optimize your trades and holdings with comprehensive and customizable analytics across the enterprise

Risk Management

Aggregate, model, and manage risk across all asset classes from a single platform, using standard or proprietary pricing models and analytics

Sales & Trading

Integrate diverse datasets and analytics to evaluate performance across books, portfolios, and asset classes

Application Development

Build, test, configure, and deploy cloud-native applications at scale through our developer platform

Cloud Migration

Leverage cloud computing resources for faster results and better insights from your secure, automated, and cost-effective cloud domain

Hear from Our Clients

Let some of the markets’ most innovative investment management firms tell you how Beacon improved their risk management, increased developer productivity, and enabled rapid response to emerging opportunities

Go Deeper

News and perspectives on how fintech is changing risk analytics, alternative asset management, and instrument adoption for the modern investment management firm.

Learn how a global digital and alternative asset manager is using Beacon’s customization capabilities to quickly comply with regulatory reporting requirements, building credibility and expanding

Learn how alternative investment management firm IPI is using Beacon to accelerate innovation and developer productivity to the speed of markets. “These solutions are highly

JULY 13, 2023 – NEW YORK – Beacon Platform is delighted to announce its recognition in the Chartis BuySide50 report, securing a top 20 placement.