Self-employed Business Consultant
Rebranding of FRONT ARENA
In February 2021 the software vendor FIS has renamed the product FRONT ARENA to FIS®Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Platform. To make it easier to find and read my consulting services on my homepage and in consultant profiles, I will continue using the established and well known name FRONT ARENA.
Overview of FRONT ARENA
The FIS trading and risk management system FRONT ARENA is a modular, expandable, cross-asset, real-time, front-to-back solution for all companies involved in global capital market trading.
FRONT ARENA offers, among diverse other features, the following functionality:
- Order and execution management (including internalisation)
- Sales, trading and market making
- Pricing, position keeping and risk management
- Excellent integration into existing system and process architectures
- Individual parameterization and almost unlimited possibilities of functional extension
- Extensive and high-quality documentation
FIS®Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Platform, FRONT ARENA and PRIME are registered trademarks of the software vendor FIS located in Jacksonville (Florida, USA).
Project Positions
- Project Lead
- Expert & Solution Architect for FRONT ARENA /PRIME
Expert for AEF (ARENA Extension Framework)
- Python
- ARENA Class Model (ACM)
- ARENA Extension Language (AEL)
- ARENA Data Flow Language (ADFL)
- ARENA SQL (ASQL)
- ARENA Message Broker (AMB)
- Further AEF Technologies and API`s (e.g. Proprietary Valuation)
FRONT ARENA Focal Points
- Expert for the professional validation of valuation, risk measurement and profit & loss determination in FRONT ARENA / PRIME
- Functional enhancement and integration of the system
- Expert for the integration of external pricing libraries
FRONT ARENA Network
- Trustful collaboration with product managers, project managers and the support of the manufacturer FIS
- Proven cooperation with the FIS Gold partners through many successfully completed projects
- Excellent contacts to relevant FRONT ARENA experts in the market
Selected FRONT ARENA Projects
- Preliminary studies and proof of concepts to prepare appropriate implementation projects, e.g.:
- Proof of concept for the migration of the OTC interest rate & credit derivatives portfolio to FRONT ARENA / PRIME
- Preliminary study on the organizational and technical merger of the ETF trading unit with commission trading based on FRONT ARENA
- FRONT ARENA system launches and migrations as well as various release upgrades
- Implementation projects to extend the functional scope or tradable asset classes in the system, e.g.:
- Introduction of FRONT ARENA ALGO Trading Strategies for EUREX Futures (Commission Trading)
- Introducing Fixed Income and Securities Finance Trading (Repo, Securities Lending, Buy / Sellback)
- Setup line organization for the operation and further development of FRONT ARENA / PRIME
- Introduction of structured OTC interest rate, credit, FX and equity derivatives
- Integration of External Valuation Libraries via the Proprietary Valuation API
- Expansion of the trading infrastructure for the market maker in ETF trading
- Introduction of Collateral Management in FRONT ARENA for the BackOffice
- Overview of the mentioned projects and their details: Projects
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