Metals trading software for the global marketplace

Openlink provides comprehensive stress testing capabilities that allow testing of the impact of scenarios, such as a quarter-point change in overnight lending rates, on the profitability of the portfolio over time.

An Openlink solution also supports the management of the instruments required to hedge likely exposures – factors such as interest rate swaps, Interest Rate futures and FRAs, right out of the box.

Openlink provides extensive functionality for capturing and evaluating optionality in contracts. The solution uses projected market data to provide a present value for each option – allowing producers to price it correctly. As an end user, the system automatically recommends the best use of the optionality available (how and when to exercise it) based on forward-looking prices.

Our solution covers both physical contracts and financial derivatives, including swaps and exotic options like concentrates, so you get an aggregated view of positions, risk and P&L in a single solution with drill-down to the transaction level at the click of a mouse. Users can decompose exposure from more complex physical products such as concentrates, scrap and alloys into their constituent products and compare against the relevant derivatives.

Manage and view the full physical delivery details for precious metals with the Openlink bar management module. Detail fineness, quality and adjustments and match against the value of trades with actual physical delivery to expose any differences between expected and actual positions.

Openlink delivers an in-memory database for fast storage and retrieval of massive data amounts; can scale as transaction volumes grow and provides aggregated real-time position reporting to keep pace with even the largest trading operations.