Insights

Chartis RiskTech BuySide 50 report: TS Imagine wins Technology and Techniques Category
TS Imagine is proud to announce that we have been ranked no 1 in the Technology and Techniques category by Chartis Research in the Chartis RiskTech Buyside 50 report.

TS Imagine – One Year in Business
Hear from Andrew Morgan, President and Chief Revenue Officer, about the exciting journey during our first year - the alignment of the companies and products, the amazing reception we’ve had from clients and the market, and our thoughts on the future.

A new era for fixed income trading
Fixed income veterans are all too familiar with the workflow and until recently, the vast majority of bond trades (other than for U.S. Treasuries) were traded over the phone. Although stock markets hadlong since moved away from open-outcry to electronic trading, bond traders often still rely on manual practices and phone calls to locate liquidity, interact with broker/dealers, and agree on quantities and prices to execute trades.

TS Imagine Expands Executive Team with Chief Operating Officer Appointment
TS Imagine has appointed Thomas Bodenski as COO as the firm expands its executive team to support its rapid growth.

TS Imagine Expands its Operations in Montréal
TS Imagine is expanding its presence in Canada with new facilities in Montréal to boost its North American operations and drive its international growth.

TS Imagine Strengthens its Marketplace Leadership with Non-Exec Board Appointments
TS Imagine announces the appointment of three new board members to support the firm’s rapid growth.

TS Imagine Announces Strong Growth and Senior Hires as Demand Surges
TS Imagine, a global leader in trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for capital markets, today announced strong growth during the first half of 2022.

Enriching the HVaR Calculation:
Predicting the Past:
HVaR, By Dr Lance Smith, Chief Strategy Officer, TS Imagine Historical VaR (HVaR) has become a standard measurement of risk, in which a current portfolio is subjected to the market conditions of a prior day and the resulting P&L is recorded. Read entire article here.

TS Imagine Connects to Coinbase Prime
TS Imagine connects to Coinbase Prime and provides clients with another venue for regulated cryptocurrency trading.

TS Imagine Team at SimCorp IUCM 2022
TS Imagine recently participated in SimCorp’s 3-day International User Community Meeting (IUCM) attracting over 500 clients from around the world. For those who were not able to attend the event, we offer this summary of the history, rationale and benefits of the TS Imagine/SimCorp alliance.

TS Imagine EMS Integrates with Appital’s Bookbuilding Platform Ahead of Launch
EMS integration automates historically manual processes, unlocking hard-to-find liquidity for the buyside community.

Limitations of HVaR:
When the Future No Longer Looks Like the Past
HVaR assumes that present market dynamics are captured in past behavior so what should we do when the world changes? Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, commodity markets have entered new trading patterns and Lance Smith, TS Imagine Chief Strategy Officer explains some of the tools that can be used to help HVaR without disturbing other risk factors.

TS Imagine Extends Crypto Exchange Connectivity with Gemini
TS Imagine, the leader in trading, portfolio and risk management solutions for capital markets, today announces that it has successfully integrated with crypto platform Gemini.

Bitcoin Financialization (Part 3) – Calling All Crypto Asset Managers
Since its creation, Bitcoin (BTC) has been the subject of constant discussion regarding its potential impact on financial markets and the seismic shifts it could generate.

Bitcoin Financialization (Part 2) – The Many Stages of Bitcoin
Since its creation, Bitcoin (BTC) has been the subject of constant discussion regarding its potential impact on financial markets and the seismic shifts it could generate.

Bitcoin Financialization (Part 1) – A Tectonic Shift
Since its creation, Bitcoin (BTC) has been the subject of constant discussion regarding its potential impact on financial markets and the seismic shifts it could generate.

Reopening Call for Pre-Trade Clarity, Consolidation & Convergence
The most striking and recurrent theme for buy-side traders is a unanimous desire for better pre-trade analytics and decision support tools.

GOODBYE LIBOR: Smoothly Transitioning to the New ARRs
In this blog post, we share insight into the basic requirements, key challenges, our approach for a smooth transition from IBORs to ARRs and an outlook for what’s next in the multi-year journey to move away from IBORs.

ED&F Man Capital Markets Transforms Risk & Margin Management with TS Imagine’s RRC Platform
ED&F Man Capital Markets replaces legacy systems with TS Imagine’s fully-hosted, SaaS solution for high-volume, real-time analytics on cross-asset exchange and OTC trading.

Performance Attribution
When analysing performance, measuring a portfolio’s actual return answers the “what” and “when” questions –– it tells us what return the portfolio delivered over a specified period of time. While that information is obviously important, the goal of a performance attribution analysis is to go beyond “what” and “when” to explain “how” and “why”.

CASE STUDY: MTS
This case study presents just one example of how a collaborative effort between MTS Markets International, Inc. (MTS), a data/liquidity provider, and TS Imagine (TSI), an EMS provider, helped a mutual client – Agilon Capital – optimise its corporate bond trading operation.

TS Imagine Appoints Thomas Bodenski as the New Chief Transformation and Data Officer
TS Imagine, a global provider of trading, portfolio and risk management solutions for capital markets, announces the recent appointment of Thomas Bodenski as chief transformation and data officer.