Beacon Platform
Beacon Platform provides cloud-native solutions for portfolio management, sales and trading, risk management, and application development, serving various industries including banks, investment management, and energy and commodities.
Services
Beacon Platform provides a cloud-native solution for portfolio management, sales and trading, risk management, application development, and cloud migration. The company offers tools for pre-trade structuring, post-trade management, marking tools, and research. Additionally, they provide orchestration and workflow automation to streamline manual tasks in the deal approval process. For operations, Beacon Platform supports with dashboards for confirmations, broker reconciliation, invoicing, and shadow settlement.
Industries Served
Beacon Platform caters to several industries including banks, investment management, energy and commodities, and alternative asset management. Their solutions enable these industries to model and manage risk across all asset classes from a unified platform. Asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, and pensions use Beacon Platform to optimize position and portfolio management, while energy and commodities firms use their tools to adapt to rapidly changing markets.
Cloud-Native Platform
Beacon Platform offers a cloud-native platform that unifies products, data, analytics, and workflows for capital market firms. The platform includes a shared code repository for rapid building, testing, and deployment of trading and risk applications. It also provides scalable and controlled cloud environments, enabling firms to shift resources from infrastructure to innovation. The platform is designed with elastic compute functionality for large-scale risk calculations.
Developer Tools
Beacon Platform equips developers with an open and customizable code base and a suite of tools to enhance efficiency. They offer continuous integration and delivery pipelines, security scanning, and cloud deployment tools for application development. Additionally, they provide tools for integrating proprietary models and libraries, remote procedure calls, and spreadsheet integrations. The company also supports a developer network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and innovative products across capital markets.
Trading and Risk Management Applications
Beacon Platform provides a comprehensive suite of trading and risk management applications for capital markets. These tools include book and portfolio management, risk and PnL reporting, stress testing, scenario analysis, and value at risk calculations. The platform supports a wide range of asset classes, including energy and commodities, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, credit, securitized products, structured products, and alternatives. Additionally, the Beacon App Store serves as a digital marketplace for distributing and consuming apps and analytics.