AIM Software

Established in 1998, Advanced Information Management (AIM) Software is a provider of reference data management and risk management solutions with offices in Switzerland, the United States and Hong Kong. AIM Software operates on an international scope and services the major financial centers based on its worldwide service and support partner network.

After ensuring its position with the GAIN reference data management platform in Europe, AIM Software expanded its activities to the United States, the Middle East, and Asia. More than [http://www.aim-sw.com/clients/references 95 financial institutions] are using AIM Software's products.

Products

AIM Software's solution for reference data management and risk management, GAIN, enables institutions to process batch and real-time data feeds and to derive comprehensive risk assessments.

Data feeds:

* Bloomberg Data License
* Financial Times Interactive Data (FTID)
* FININFO
* FIX
* MDDL
* Reuters DataScope
* Reuters RMDS
* Swift (ISO 15022)
* Telekurs
* VRXML
* Wertpapiermitteilungen
* XML feeds

GAIN Data Management, the solution for reference data management, enables clients to access and process a multitude of data feeds. The modular and scalable solution combines features for cleansing, scrubbing and reconciliation with manual exception handling for reference data, prices and corporate actions.

GAIN Risk Management emphasizes a synergetic risk management approach by combining data feed connectivity, pre- and post-processing, instrument pricing and risk management in one package. GAIN helps financial institutions to face the challenges and hurdles in implementing the requirements of a modern, Basel II compliant risk management system.

Research activities

From March to July 2006, AIM Software carried out the third [http://www.dmstudy.info AIM Global Data and Risk Management Survey] on key issues of reference data management and risk management, approaching 1,027 financial institutions in 77 countries from North America, Central & South America, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe (CEE), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Middle-East & Africa, and Asia & Asia-Pacific. The industry survey covers plans of financial institutions regarding their reference data and risk management, the handling of regulatory requirements and standardisation efforts.

Basel II as driving force for the automation of reference data management

External links

* [http://www.aimsoftware.com AIM Software Website]
* [http://www.aimsoftware.com/products/gaindatadesktop/ GAIN Data Management]
* [http://www.aimsoftware.com/products/gainriskmanagement/ GAIN Risk Management]
* [http://www.dmstudy.info AIM Global Data and Risk Management Survey]