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Community - Java Success Stories "Asset managers and investors can now employ the same risk quantification techniques used by professional traders and bank regulators. Riskview.com is a single-source tool to monitor total returns on individual equities or indices, evaluate personal portfolios, and perform 'what if' risk scenarios--with an integrated help system explaining every screen and every calculation. Riskview.com requires robust analytical processing capabilities. Java and RS/6000 parallel processors were the natural choices."

-- Ron Lang, Vice President, Marketing, Infinity Financial Technology

Company: Infinity Financial Technology, Inc.
Location: Mountain View, California
Industry: Banking & Finance
URL: http://www.infinity.com

Business Concern and Solution
Investors are demanding increased accountability for risks taken relative to returns achieved. Individual and professional investors need to track historical equity performance and conduct risk/return analyses. This meant having access to global financial market statistics, sophisticated methodology to assess risk and return, and network computing technology which will make this application universally available. How can individual and small business professional investors get this customized risk management service, when it is only available to leading international financial institutions for thousands of dollars per year? A partnership between Infinity Financial Technology, Dow Jones & Company, and IBM provided the answer.

Solution Synopsis
Riskview.com, a free Java-based web site, provides individual and professional investors with customized risk management analyses of international stock portfolios. The data includes the Dow Jones Global Indexes (DJGI) and its underlying stocks, providing over 3,000 indexes tracking stocks in 29 countries, 9 economic sectors, and 121 industry groups. Developed by Infinity, riskview.com, is a single-source tool to monitor total returns on individual equities or indices, evaluate personal portfolios, and perform "what if" risk scenarios using over five years of daily historical data. This site provides daily updates to the DJGI stocks and indexes and Value-at-Risk (VaR) analyses based on Infinity's EquityMetrics, a full set of return volatility and correlation estimates. IBM is hosting the web site on its scaleable, massively parallel RS/6000 SP computers. IBM is also providing proprietary agent technology to allow users access to related internet information consistent with their portfolio holdings.

Business Profile
Infinity Financial Technology, Inc., develops and markets best-of-breed applications for financial trading and risk management. The company was founded in 1989, and completed its initial public offering in October 1996. It offers global sales and support through offices in New York, Chicago, Toronto, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney. The company's clients are among the world's leading financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, Chase Manhattan, Mitsubishi Trust and Banking, National Australia Bank and Westdeutsche Landesbank. BusinessWeek recently recognized Infinity as #7 on its top 100 list of "Hot Growth" public companies in the U.S.

For Additional Information
Check out the free of charge web site, written entirely in Java, for customized risk management analyses at www.riskview.com.



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