In today’s digital landscape, online systems may face relentless automated attacks that typically progress through four stages: Beacon Platform was designed from the ground up to withstand and counter these threats. With defense-in-depth as our guiding principle, we use strategies
Increasing competition in the hedge fund industry is encouraging funds to explore multi-asset, multi-strategy models that can return better risk-adjusted performance and can scale to meet the complexity this entails. Complications arise from trying to stitch together multiple legacy or
A recent project I worked on, enhancing Beacon’s regression testing process, called for the development of some new and enhanced features for Beacon’s Test Dashboards. Just four weeks into my time at Beacon, this was my first experience using the
Security incidents always present valuable opportunities for us to review and, where necessary, revise Beacon’s security and deployment processes. Deploying urgent and important updates, quickly, safely, and securely Getting urgent and important updates out to clients is a core requirement
The financial markets technology race is emphasizing the need for real-time data analytics. It has also become increasingly clear that legacy end-of-day approaches to trading book risk assessment are in urgent need of modernization. In this context, ActiveViam’s strategic partnership
We recently celebrated Beacon’s tenth anniversary, which this year coincided with our annual Inspire conference, held on March 14th in New York City. It was very rewarding to hear about the many applications and tools that our clients, partners, and
The top themes at the E-world 2024 event in Essen, Germany last month were the energy transition and the security of supply. People who visited our booth at the show had deeper questions about Beacon’s capabilities in the areas of:
As the finance industry trading volumes increase, end-of-day or even hourly modeling of position risks and portfolio exposures are not enough. Higher uncertainty and market volatility have been driving demands to significantly increase the performance interval of our risk analytics
Machine learning (ML) is becoming an important part of the technology toolkit in financial services. Companies are using these tools to better understand and evaluate models, find investment opportunities, expand portfolios, and adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. Perhaps the
Resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from unexpected events or challenges Resilience is a critical attribute of financial systems. There have certainly been no shortage of challenges and unexpected events in the past year that have strained the resilience of
