Energy & Commodity Risk Management Software

Configurable, Easy-to-Use & Cost-Effective

VaR Edge is a VaR (Value at Risk) based Commodity Risk Management System that provides Deeper Insights and Control on your business. An easy-to-use web-based Solution, VaR Edge enables physical commodity trading companies reduce costs, improve profitability & get better at Risk compliance. It is an Integrated Risk Analytics Platform so companies can manage Commodity Price Volatility and Credit Risks on their Portfolios easily.

Why VaR Edge?

Here’s Why it is Better than any other Software you’ve come across !

World’s Largest Pricing Library

  • Price any Exotic or Strcutured Derivative Instrument, including Multiple Excercise, Asian, Barrier, Binary and Spread Options
  • Algorithms custom-built for Commodities Industry
  • World’s Largest Library in a Commodity Risk System, designed to easily accommodate many more algorithms !

Measure Risks Accurately, Faster

  • Measure and Track Price / Market, Counter-party Credit, Operational risks seamlessly
  • Unique Risk Perspectives for different Teams for better Visibility into Business
  • Our hyper-threading feature enables powerful computing with more accurate results, faster.

Automate Risk Processes

  • Automation of several inter-related Risk Processes saves significant time and effort
  • Teams spend more time analysing Reports rather than creating them

Flexibility to Suit your Business

  • High Configurability allows you to scale the system with Business needs
  • Easy tweaking of settings enables best – suited configuration for your unique Business needs

Manage Data Better

  • Replace all Risk related Excels / legacy systems with a Single, web-based Solution
  • Get rid of reconciliation issues, data & formulae errors between systems

A Risk System you’ll Actually Use !

  • Most Organizations have a Risk System, but do not use it as it is cumbersome !
  • Enabled for touch-based devices as well, teams can easily make RiskEdge a part of their daily activity

Why VaR Edge?

Here’s Why it is Better than any other Software you’ve come across !

Auto Position Import

Control your Position and Price data
  • Data Management is one of the biggest needs for any Risk Solution – VaR Edge Software addresses this need comprehensively !
  • VaR Edge automatically imports your position and price data from your excels / other systems and maintains a historical database, giving you a Single Source of Truth.

VaR Edge White-Box

Understand how VaR really works
  • VaR Edge gives complete visibility into how your transactions are being validated, rolled-up and merged / split at every stage before it enters the RiskEdge VaR Engine.
  • It enables a good understanding of Risk for people handling the Risk Management function, and makes reconciliation between systems really easy.

Real-Time Calculations

Mark-to-Market and Instrument Pricing
  • VaR Edge covers a whole gamut of Instruments, from Physicals, Basis, Price-to-be-Fixed contracts to Swaps, Plain Vanilla Options, Asian Options and Swaps, Option Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho) and many other Exotic Derivatives.
  • With VaR Edge, you’ll have real-time M2M (mark-to-market) and Pricing of all your positions and portfolios. The pricing is done using Full-revaluation method through thousands of simulations with Monte-Carlo.

VaR Edge - VaR Engine

Sophisticated Algorithms, accurate results, delivered fast
  • VaR Engine uses latest advancements in technology to deliver more accurate results through intense processing, faster.
  • User-Defined VaR methodologies – Parametric, Monte-Carlo, Historical and Volatility Methods – Unconditional (Standard), Conditional (EWMA).
  • User-defined Settings for Holding period, data range, Confidence Interval and many more.

VaR Edge Simulate

Simulate your way through the shocks, be better prepared
  • Simulate allows users to import any kind of portfolio, apply an event / scenario to it and see how the results would be.
  • Any of the basic position / risk parameters or curves can be changed and the resulting impact can be viewed, compared and reported.
  • Stress scenarios / what-if scenarios can also be applied on portfolios to test their behaviour under such circumstances.

Auto-Alerts

Automated Monitoring from your mobiles
  • Set Limits on your portfolios, traders or business units for quantities, risk, P&L or market prices.
  • Receive Alerts on Limit breaches in your email, automatically. Limit Utilization helps you track both over and under-utilization of your limits.

Flexible

Suited to your unique needs
  • Most features are user-defined, from VaR Settings, position mappings and pricing algorithms, to accessibility to portfolios / modules, triggering of alerts, and reporting formats.
  • All historical risk and exposure numbers are saved in the system, enabling you to plot trend reports.

Flexi-Reporting

Your Reports, delivered your way
  • In VaR Edge, you can create your own reports by adding what you’d like to see and hiding what you don’t. You can sort, filter, re-size the report on the screen to suit any specific requirements.
  • In-built Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities allow you to group portfolios by one or more parameters, and even drill-down to position level details.
  • All reports and charts can be exported to Excel to allow you flexibility of your own analysis.

Multi-Dimensional Approach

The hallmark of a sophisticated system
  • View your risk and exposure for multiple dimensions such as Commodity / Product, Profit Center, Legal Entity, Market, Instrument Type, etc.
  • VaR Edge calculates Risk and Exposures for hundreds of portfolios based on your dimensions and configurations.
  • Any of the basic position / risk parameters or curves can be changed and the resulting impact can be viewed, compared and reported.

How do our Customers use VaR Edge?

Flexible Delivery Methods

On Cloud

If quick and cost-effective implementation is your need, VaR Edge delivered on Cloud is your solution ! You can save on expensive Hardware and Software costs, and also on technical teams to monitor the system up-time. What’s more, VaR Edge Cloud is paid on annual subscription basis, which is far easier on the Cash Flows for the company !

On Premise

For those who have significant customization needs or do not want to share control on their data, VaR Edge delivered On-Premise is the answer. On-premise delivery allows you to utilize the massive computational power of VaR Edge, along with a complete set of features customized to suit your specific business needs.