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Keeping tabs on value at risk across an investment organisation poses significant challenges. Implementing systems to bring all instruments into a timely 'apples with apples' comparison is tricky enough. Once the information has been collated, understanding the overall picture of exposure while maintaining a sufficient level of granularity is essential to complete control.

Fractal:Edge software provides a unique picture of detail and overview that enables you to spot individual and overall exposures at a glance and drill into areas of concern instantly. Colour coding and other visual cues can be easily configured to highlight the information that interests you, while real-time capability means that if you can collect the appropriate information tick-by-tick, we can show it. Connecting to a wide range of industry-standard data sources, Fractal:Edge technology can also assist in collating information from disparate systems.

Fractal:Edge technology has been deployed in risk management functions in both buy-side and sell-side organisations and across a range of instruments.
 

The Fractal Map shown to the right is a simple map of the Fractal:Edge website. Each circle represents a page in the site starting with the largest, outer circle representing the homepage. If there are further links from that page they will be shown as smaller circles within it.

Fractal Map with the homepage highlightedBy moving your mouse over a circle and "hovering" over it (by keeping the mouse still) for a short time, you will see labels appear to show you the titles of the page you are hovering over (at 12 o'clock) and the pages it is linked to.

Clicking on a circle opens the relevant page in your browser window.

Fractal Map with the homepage highlightedIn addition, the Fractal Map will show a "crumb trail" for the page you are viewing by highlighting the relevant circles in red. The smallest red circle represents the page you are viewing and any "parent" pages higher up in the website structure will also be highlighted red showing you the route you would take to reach the page. Note that the homepage itself is never coloured red in this way.

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