Bloomberg’s Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS) is a comprehensive suite of risk management tools that delivers consistent, consolidated results across your entire firm. Powered by Bloomberg’s world-class pricing library, market data and mortgage cash flow engine, MARS enables front office, risk and collateral professionals to analyze their trading and investment portfolios, manage and mitigate their exposure and ready themselves for any turn of events.
MARS Valuations is an enterprise solution that provides credible and complete valuations and Greeks for portfolios. It has comprehensive asset class coverage that encompasses a broad spectrum of financial instruments, including cash products, exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives, and structured products. Valuations are powered by a high-quality pricing library along with high-quality market data.
MARS Front Office provides a comprehensive suite of risk analytics that delivers consistency between risk and front office. With advanced scenario and stress test capabilities as well as streamlined workflow solutions, MARS Front Office contains everything you need to adapt to changing regulation and thrive in a challenging business landscape.
In today’s complex and interconnected markets, both buy-side and sell-side firms need a powerful solution to monitor, assess and manage intraday and end-of-day risk. MARS Market Risk is a complete risk analytics and reporting solution designed for all risk managers, from the chief risk officer to the risk analyst.
Bloomberg’s MARS Credit Risk seeks to provide clients with consistent, comparable portfolio analytics to evaluate, monitor and assist in managing the credit risk of financial and corporate counterparties. It works with the Bloomberg portfolio management framework to provide an automated solution to monitor counterparties and enable comparative analytics. Analytics are available via user interface or via API integration.
Both front office traders and credit department risk managers can benefit from an enterprise-scale solution designed to help them comprehensively measure and manage the counterparty risk arising from OTC derivative portfolios. That’s what MARS XVA delivers, whether you’re calculating and hedging XVA, or managing a firm’s counterparty exposures. Our market-leading analytics enable quantification of the costs arising from counterparty credit, funding and capital in a holistic manner.
Bloomberg’s MARS Collateral Management seeks to provide our clients with a powerful tool to mitigate counterparty credit risk within the Bloomberg Professional service. It is an end-to-end collateral management and processing hub that provides clients with a straight-through automated solution to holistically manage and monitor their exposures and collateral positions.
Closer scrutiny of derivatives on a balance sheet and an organization’s hedging policies has led to a greater need for transparency over hedge accounting practices and its effects on the balance sheet and income statement.
Bloomberg offers a hedge accounting application on the Terminal that provides comprehensive and flexible hedge accounting functionality to support hedge documentation, assessment and measurement, including:
- Hedge designation
- Hedge effectiveness testing
- Accounting and reporting output
- Audit/controls
