LexiFi Apropos

Use One System to Develop, Market, and Manage Tailored Financial Products

ap·ro·pos  adj  :  being both relevant and opportune

Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary

LexiFi Apropos is an application for the analysis, sales, trading, and management of both simple and complex financial products. Designed to serve as an in-house system of record for non-standard transactions, LexiFi Apropos brings together all data and services required to develop, market, and manage tailored financial solutions.

LexiFi Apropos addresses the needs of providers, distributors, and users of structured products who wish to build a business that scales. Users rely on an authoritative source of product, trade, and market data and on shared analytical and processing services to streamline key functions:

• Sales. LexiFi Apropos facilitates the design of distinctive investment, financing, and risk transfer solutions and automates the production of sales and marketing documents, including term sheets and pre- and post-trade customer reports.
• Trading. Users accurately record the terms and conditions of candidate transactions in trading-quality entry screens, access analytical tools to gain insight into the economics of complex products, and calculate prices with proven implementations of industry-standard models developed by LexiFi or with in-house models.
• Risk management. LexiFi Apropos enables the ongoing control of positions, valuations, and risks, at any level of detail, thanks to combined pricing and event management capabilities, centralized access to market data, a powerful scenario analysis framework, and specialized displays and reports.
• Processing. LexiFi Apropos automates post-trade processes: the system detects and handles product life cycle events, updates product definitions in response to such events, and calculates cash and security positions.

8 Reasons to Use LexiFi Apropos

	Comprehensive Instrument Coverage
	Start working immediately with out-of-the-box analytical and management support for more than 100 structured, flow, and cash instruments, including most popular structured investment products.
	New Financial Products Added Quickly
	Move swiftly from prototyping to production: define product variations in trading-quality entry screens or create entirely new structures with LexiFi Apropos’ Extension Kit.
	Trading-Quality Entry Screens Define product variations and complex schedules interactively with graphical user interfaces. Click image to enlarge.
	Pricing and Structuring
	Quantify the value, risks, and rewards of each product with proven implementations of industry-standard pricing models and a collection of analytics.
	Simulation and Pricing Analyze the behavior of a contract along one or more market scenarios and calculate its residual value on future horizon dates. Click image to enlarge.
	Control of positions, valuations, and risks
	Calculate positions, estimate portfolio values and risks, and present the information with specialized displays and reports.
	Scenario Analysis Create risk analyses with a powerful framework for designing and managing market scenarios and measure the impact of modified market environments on portfolio values. Click image to enlarge.
	Automated Contract Management
	Automate the life cycle management of tailored products: systematically detect and process events such as payments, fixings, option expiries, and equity corporate actions; monitor barriers; maintain an up-to-date definition of each contract as it ages; and keep a full history of events.
	Uniform Representation of Financial Products
	Rely on a uniform representation of financial products to meet your current and future analysis and processing needs: LexiFi Apropos is powered by MLFi, an original formalism that supports the description, pricing, analysis, and management of financial products. MLFi is the result of a long-term research and development effort that received both industry and academic awards.
	Open Pricing Architecture
	Leverage existing valuation algorithms and calculation platforms thanks to a clear separation among pricing-related data and services.
	Integration and Extension Tools
	Deploy tailored software solutions with LexiFi Apropos' integration and extension tools: Integration APIs enables the automatic control of the data entering and exiting the application. The LexiFi Apropos Extension Kit enables financial engineers and programmers to independently add financial products, pricing model implementations, product and portfolio analytics, and processing capabilities to the system.
	Integrated Development Environment Customize your system with LexiFi Apropos' integrated development environment. Click image to enlarge.