Our Solutions for Commodity Firms
Manage margins and ensure collateral liquidity in volatile markets
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Use our predictive analytics to calculate current and future margin requirements, providing the insights you need to maintain liquidity in challenging market conditions.
Clearing Broker
Reconciliation
Independently verify broker margin amounts to challenge discrepancies.
Margin Drivers & Attribution
Pinpoint positions and factors driving daily margin and the reasons for day-to-day changes.
Margin Efficiency & Optimization
Reduce margin usage while maintaining your risk profile and hedging strategies.
Pre-trade Margin Analysis
Real-time understanding of the margin and cost generated by each new position before trade execution.
UMR Compliance
Meet regulatory initial margin calculation and backtesting obligations efficiently and with enhanced transparency.
Margin Stress Testing & Forecasting
Stress-test and forecast future margin, collateral, and funding needs.
Manage liquidity
Validate current and forecast future margin requirements.
Stress test collateral assets and derivative positions to model future liquidity.
Validate margin calculations
Verify your FCM and bilateral margin requirements.
Independently calculate CCP/Exchange and Regulatory (e.g., SIMM) margin models.
Spoiler alert!
Avoid unexpected margin calls and liquidity squeezes by forecasting future margin and collateral needs.
Analyze drivers
Attribute margin cost to hedging strategies or positions.
Identify strategies, positions, or instruments that could be closed to raise funds at short notice.
Regulatory compliance
Reduce regulatory risk and avoid expensive threshold breaches.
Calculate industry-standard AANA, SIMM, and GRID results for UMR compliance.
“We recognize the value in Cassini’s ability to connect with our brokers…and [how their analytics] will enhance our risk management framework. Cassini has shown us they can provide precisely what we seek regarding margin management and analytics.”
Director of Quantitative Analytics at CF Partners