### 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.

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#### 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