Driving innovation in risk management and technology

ActiveViam has triumphed at the Risk Markets Technology Awards 2025, securing three wins: Best user interface innovation, FRTB-SA product of the year and Best use of cloud with solutions that address critical challenges in risk management, regulatory compliance and cloud integration.

Best user interface innovation: Atoti Limits

ActiveViam’s Atoti Limits addresses the significant challenges risk officers and managers face when managing limits and breach alerts. This innovative solution enhances the user experience by streamlining the process of creating, updating and monitoring limits. Atoti Limits provides a centralised intuitive interface, allowing users to define limits at various granular levels and across multiple asset classes. The user-friendly design enables risk officers to manage limits efficiently while maintaining transparency and compliance with regulatory standards.

One of the most important features is its one-click breach investigation tool, which enables users to quickly identify the root cause of any breach alerts. This drastically reduces the time required to investigate and resolve limit breaches, which is critical in a high-stakes environment. Additionally, the audit history feature ensures complete traceability of all actions taken, providing financial institutions with full visibility into their risk management activities.

Atoti Limits has proven to be highly scalable, handling more than 200,000 limit rules across various asset classes without compromising performance. The system’s real-time visibility empowers traders and portfolio managers to make quicker, more informed decisions, enhancing agility in response to market fluctuations.

FRTB-SA product of the year: Atoti FRTB SA

ActiveViam’s Atoti FRTB SA is an important platform for financial institutions navigating the complex regulatory landscape of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). The solution excels in three key areas: reporting, explaining and optimising, making it an indispensable tool for banks striving for FRTB compliance.

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Atoti FRTB SA goes beyond reporting risk figures; it also ensures complete transparency by allowing analysts to trace discrepancies back to their data sources, addressing regulators’ demand for detailed explanations of any variations. This full transparency helps banks justify their figures to auditors and regulatory bodies.

The platform includes advanced optimisation capabilities, which allow banks to explore a range of scenarios and make better decisions around capital charge allocation. This ensures banks can minimise capital charges while optimising their portfolios. Atoti FRTB SA’s quick deployment – possible within just four to six weeks – makes it an attractive solution for institutions needing to meet regulatory deadlines swiftly and efficiently.

Finally, support for multi-jurisdictional compliance is another important differentiator, allowing financial institutions to manage different regulatory frameworks simultaneously, making it easier to meet global regulatory requirements.

Best use of cloud: Atoti with DirectQuery

ActiveViam’s DirectQuery functionality for Atoti represents an important shift in how financial institutions handle cloud data. DirectQuery allows Atoti to query external databases directly, without the need to load data into memory beforehand. This innovation expands the scalability of Atoti, enabling users to handle cloud-sized datasets that exceed the capabilities of traditional in-memory systems.

As data volumes grow, the cost of processing large datasets becomes prohibitive. ActiveViam has addressed this with DirectQuery by enabling users to perform complex analytics without the need for excessive data duplication and memory consumption. A variety of data warehouses and lakes are supported, including Amazon Redshift, ClickHouse, Databricks, Google BigQuery and Snowflake.

DirectQuery also enhances flexibility as it allows for real-time online analytical processing – known as Olap – cubes that start up in seconds. This simplifies deployment and enables dynamic, on-demand analytics across vast datasets. DirectQuery reduces operational costs while maintaining high performance by allowing IT teams to determine which parts of the dataset should be kept in memory for immediate access and which should remain in long-term storage. It provides a consistent semantic layer across cloud and on-premises environments, allowing applications to move between infrastructures without losing functionality.

Judges said:

• “Atoti Limits has a very intuitive design, tackling the important topic of efficient limit management.”
• “The emphasis on explanation and optimisation – areas [where] other FRTB-SA solutions fall short – makes this a deserving winner.”
• “A clear innovation developed over the past couple of years, DirectQuery allows clients to access large datasets at minimal cost.”

Laurent Sultan, chief revenue officer at ActiveViam, says:

“I am very proud of our team’s relentless innovation and dedication to delivering top-tier solutions for our clients. Sweeping three awards at the Risk Markets Technology Awards is a testament to their extraordinary work. ActiveViam technology continues to be an industry leader, trusted by over half of the world’s largest banks. These awards are another demonstration of ActiveViam’s unique innovative culture, combining customer satisfaction and excellence.”

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