Arcesium Unveils Opterra Investment Lifecycle Management Platform Empowering Investment Firms to Drive Operational Alpha
July 16 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Arcesium launches next iteration of its
operational platform allowing investment managers to unlock growth
through optimized operations and accelerated data strategies
Arcesium, a leading provider of investment lifecycle and data
management technology for the global investment industry, today
launches its next-generation operational platform, Opterra,
designed to enable investment managers to thrive in complexity,
drive competitive edge through any asset class or investment
strategy, and simplify even the most complex workflows through a
unified thread of data.
Opterra brings together numerous technological advancements
throughout Arcesium’s products and solutions in one interconnected
platform that optimizes all middle- and back-office functions
across asset classes and provides innovative operational
infrastructure capable of matching any front-office ambition.
Opterra introduces a myriad of new capabilities designed to
empower investment firms to future-proof operations and unlock
growth. Opterra gives investment firms expanded self-service
reporting abilities so that they can rapidly leverage datasets from
across their business in new and more insightful ways, as well as
extended reach across today’s fastest-growing asset classes. The
new platform introduces increased operational support for assets
including private credit and cryptocurrency, enabling firms to
efficiently support any front-office strategy, and introduces more
comprehensive regulatory reporting capabilities helping firms
maintain compliance with evolving regulations. Opterra also enables
advanced margin simulation calculations via API for the first time,
uniting the front, middle and back offices with a golden thread of
data for more intelligent enterprise-wide decision making.
“In developing this latest iteration of our technology, our
product team took an approach uniquely crafted for today’s complex
financial markets, and I am proud of the enhancements to our
technology that makes Opterra the most advanced operational
infrastructure in the ecosystem,” commented Arcesium CEO, Gaurav
Suri. “Our clients need to be able to drive alpha through
operational efficiency, they need the capability to deploy any
strategy at scale, and they need to be able to harmonize vast
amounts of data. This new platform is the culmination of our
mission to match the sophistication of today’s - and tomorrow’s -
investment industry and demonstrates our commitment to servicing
the entire investment lifecycle for any asset class our clients
want to trade.”
Opterra was developed to bring precision to all operational and
data-based workflows across the investment lifecycle – from
reporting to accounting to treasury and reconciliation – and was
designed to intelligently fit the unique operating environments of
hedge funds, institutional asset managers and private markets
funds. Firms will have the opportunity to deploy Opterra by itself
or synchronized with Arcesium’s enterprise data management
platform, Aquata.
“In today’s complex landscape, market participants can’t drive
the competitive edge they seek if their front-office ambitions are
hamstrung by inferior middle- and back-office workflows,” said
Arcesium’s Head of Product US, Alex Dobson. “Opterra is a
boundary-breaking platform that turns market complexity into an
asset instead of an obstacle. It’s the culmination of years of
advancements which bring order, insight, and ease to all
post-investment processes – while feeding the value of advanced
data back to the front-office. It’s all there in the name: ‘Opt’
for optimal and ‘terra’ representing the solid ground on which
funds can expand in any direction.”
Other functions introduced with the launch of Opterra include
enhanced amortization calculators for the private credit space,
increased operational support for whole loans, and enhanced
transaction management capabilities for crypto assets.
On the heels of the today’s Opterra launch and 2023’s Aquata
launch, Arcesium’s industry-leading product team continues to
advance its ambitious roadmap, responding to investment managers’
pressing need to bring a new standard of control, collaboration,
and trust to all their operations and data use-cases.
For more information on the Opterra platform, visit
https://www.arcesium.com/opterra.
About Arcesium:
Arcesium is a global financial technology company delivering
pre- and post-investment and enterprise data management solutions
to some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions,
including private market firms, hedge funds, and institutional
asset managers. Expertly designed to achieve a synchronized golden
source of data throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’s
cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex
workflows and help clients achieve scale.
Today, Arcesium services over $4.3 trillion in gross AUM and
over $550 billion in sell-side capital balances, and has modelled
over 125 million investments to date. Arcesium was built from a
platform developed and tested by investment and technology
development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, and launched as a joint
venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan,
another large client, later made a strategic investment in the
company, helping Arcesium further its mission: to power the entire
investment lifecycle. Arcesium currently has a staff of over 2,000
software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury
professionals.
For more information about Arcesium and its capabilities, visit
www.arcesium.com and follow the firm on LinkedIn.
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