Sunday, September 28, 2008

Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Technlogy - Goldman Sachs

Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities & Global Derivatives Technology
Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities and Global Derivatives Technology support the technology needs of the firm as it builds an integrated sales and trading desktop and service-side architecture to be used across product lines and divisions.

The primary responsibilities of each group involve:

Providing trade entry and position management functionality to mainly traders and operations
Processing trades and providing real-time trade reporting and batch feeds for the settlement and clearance of trades
Creating integrated solutions for trade positions, profit and loss statements and risk management
These two groups are comprised of the following departments:

Global Trading System globally supports interest rate products and credit desks by developing applications that support fixed income products such as US Treasuries, US and International Government Bonds, and Emerging Market Bonds and Futures.

Global Repo Systems supports firm financing, sales and trading and collateral management of fixed income, equities and loan instruments.

Mortgage Trading Systems supports Agency and Non Agency Mortgages and loan businesses by managing critical pool allocation flows.

Money Markets Trading Technology builds and maintains money market trading and sales technology that supports sales and trade entry, position management and electronic trading for all money market products.

Electronic Trading and Core Services provides technology to manage the electronic trading needs of various business-facing application groups. The team also supports various offering and execution models to communicate with external vendors across product lines.

Interest Rate Products supports highly complex trades that can take anywhere from a day to two months to complete.

Credit Products provides a highly robust and scalable system to support thousands of credit-linked derivatives trades a day, swiftly and without error.

Currencies Technology provides high pricing availability and integrity to allow for our strategies to be confidently placed into the market.

Commodities supports the firm’s trading of a wide range of commodities, including electricity, natural gas, oil, metals, freight, plastics, pulp and paper, in both physical and derivative form.

http://www2.goldmansachs.com/careers/our-firm/divisions/technology/how-were-organized/FICC-global-derivatives-technology.html

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