Motivation

RiskWin is a trading and risk management product developed for the Windows® platform.

The framework underlying RiskWin was developed with the following specific goals in mind:

General Approach To Finance Problems: It had to have a general representation for solving arbitrary Investment Finance problems. This general representation had to unify the diverse areas involved (Market Data, Security Details, Portfolio Holdings) into one framework which could then be used to specify and solve arbitrary finance problems - such as Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Valuation and Forecasting.
Capable of Being Extended: It had to be capable of being extended to accommodate the frequent changes caused by innovations in financial markets. That is, as new security types are created by the markets, it should be possible to extend the product in a natural way to handle these new security types.
Affordable: The overall cost of using the product had to be within the consumer's scope of control.