Horizon Suite for Back Office Users in Broking Companies

The Horizon products that are likely to be of interest to back office professionals that work in broking, banking, hedge funds and similar institutions are as follows:

Whilst our database is very extensive, the bias on the data that we have collected has been in the interest rate derivatives area as this was the group of traders that the application was originally designed for.

Having access to the same data as used by the front office enables back office personnel to verify trade prices and to check the accuracy of some of the analysis carried out by the traders.

Horizon is the product name of a suite of software products designed and built by Derivative Trading Systems (“DTS”) to provide state of the art analytics and financial market data, to customers that work in the treasury and compliance areas of financial institutions including banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, institutional investors and corporate organizations.

The range of Horizon products include the following:

Horizon Premium
Open Horizon
Horizon Direct
Horizon COM.

Horizon is not a replacement for other real-time data applications but has traditionally been used to complement those other applications.

Some of the main reasons that Horizon has been chosen by our back office users are as follows:

• Horizon has one of the most extensive and accurate historical market rate databases. To see an up-to-date list of our historical data click on horizon database.

• One of the most powerful aspects of the Horizon suite of products is the highly powerful and flexible Graph Definition Dialogue (“GDD”). The GDD gives the user the ability to easily create simple data expressions all the way up to the most complicated data analysis expressions. All without the need to write complex computer code.

• The quality of the data is highly regarded by our customers who tend to be very loyal to our Horizon application, even though they may have other real-time data applications that also provide some of the data they need to access. When you are analysing data there is no substitute for quality information.

• Unlike some of the competition, DTS is not a big monolithic company and has a reputation for being very responsive to users requests for data anomalies to be investigated. On the rare occasions that we or one of our customers finds a data problem, we investigate it immediately and correct it if appropriate. We then send the corrections out on a timely basis, as we know how important accurate data is to our users.

• As well as all the normal data analytical functions, Horizon has a range of analytical functions that are not available in other applications. Some of these are based on the extensive database of value added market data that is distributed with the Horizon database.
  

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