Pricing Module

Pricing Module

Meet regulatory requirements with our Pricing Module 

Meeting the torrent of requirements for regulation compliance is a top priority for the financial industry. Being prepared with accurate, transparent, consistent data when called upon will ease the process and boost your confidence in your data. The GoldenSource Pricing Module enhances our core EDM solutions.

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Pricing Module Icon Independent Price Verification (IPV) Solution

External regulatory bodies and internal management are driving greater transparency in every capital market organization’s approach to valuing the assets and liabilities on its balance sheet.

For example, the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for accounting have placed tougher requirements on how complex derivatives are valued while EMIR, Solvency II, and Dodd-Frank provisions are all putting transparency at the heart of the valuation process. As such, independent price verification is now firmly in the spotlight.

What is IPV?

Independent price verification (IPV) is the process of comparing internal prices and parameters used to mark positions to obtain position valuations to a corresponding set of independently verifiable external prices and parameters. It requires capital market organizations to access multiple evaluated price feeds from various external sources in order to analyze, compare and determine their own price.

Price validation

Price validation is also needed to ensure that any prices arriving through a data vendor, broker, or evaluated pricing supplier are reasonable and complete. IPV substantiates the valuation of trading assets and liabilities on the balance sheet.

IPV with GoldenSource

The GoldenSource Independent Price Verification (IPV) solution offers a unique pricing preference and vendor hierarchy framework that enables capital market organizations to meet their regulatory, management, and audit requirements for independent price verification.

The solution combines the industry-leading Data Model and maintained Connections with client-configurable price validation rules, to provide a single point of control and a source of clean, validated prices for the front, middle, and back office.

Our Pricing Module integrates with these solutions:

Benefits of our Pricing Module

Define pricing preferences and policy

  • Automatically calculate the effects of price variances where they fall outside of user definable tolerances.
  • Quickly and easily establish processes and workflows that adhere to agreed IPV controls.
  • Control the quality of prices with a comprehensive set of data quality price validation rules, including: Single Vendor Tolerance, Multi-Vendor Tolerance, Calendar Check, Mid Check (verifies consistency of Bid, Mid and Ask prices), Missing, Stale and more.

Access pricing information from multiple sources

  • Take advantage of the GoldenSource Connections interface to prominent pricing and reference data sources and vendor feed management services.
  • GoldenSource maintains the connections and updates them automatically so you don’t have to.
  • Create custom connections to your in-house pricing sources.

Check price sources for data quality

  • Supports intra-day processing.
  • Sophisticated suspect price investigation and resolution framework.
  • Validation rules and integrity checks delivered out-of-the-box.

Validate pricing, compare multiple sources, and measure “market consensus” around pricing

  • Load, maintain and access all prices within a single repository.
  • Cross-check against multiple vendors.
  • Sophisticated vendor source hierarchy rules for golden price creation.

Ensure that preferred prices are distributed to mission critical systems across the enterprise

  • Publish validated golden prices to downstream applications including compliance, risk, accounting, and front-office systems, ensuring that everyone throughout the organization is operating with the same information.
  • Mitigate credit risk problems, compliance issues, and improve profitability by enabling key departments to make their decisions based on the correct valuations.