Speedwell Environmental System

Enterprise software for pricing and managing a portfolio of climate risk contracts

Product Highlights

The Speedwell Environmental System (SES) is an open, client-server software application that supports trading in the index-based climate risk transfer market. The contracts supported include "weather derivatives" (eg HDD), derivatives supporting risk transfer relating to renewables (eg Wind Benchmarks, Solar Benchmarks) and other environmental variables including wave heights, sea levels etc.

SES supports contract valuation, portfolio risk management and data warehousing. SES offers full support for front, middle and back office and provides process management of the entire life cycle of a climate derivative trade including trade reporting features. SES provides user permissioning allowing different users to be assigned access to different functionality.

SES supports both vanilla transactions based on daily data as well as complex transactions including gas "quantos", compound transactions based on multiple climate / weather variables and structures based on hourly data.

Who needs SES?
  • Users of index-based hedging contracts covering a wide range of variables including wind, solar, temperature, rainfall etc.
  • Insurance companies / funds selling index-based risk contracts and managing a portfolio of such contracts
  • Entities sleeving contracts between over-the-counter participants or acting as prime brokers / clearing members for cleared climate contracts
Flexibility and simplification

SES is an open system that allows the user to create valuation methods to suit each type of contract from a toolbox of options. SES supports a wide range of climate contract types including those using hourly data, compound indices and super-exotics created through scripting.

 

SES Core Functions
  • Price / analyze index-based climate risk contracts
  • Manage risk on portfolios of climate risk contracts
  • Process contracts, invoices, , automatically calculate settlement values
  • Manage historical weather data, feeds and forecasts
  • Help meet regulatory reporting requirements

 

Front Office Features
  • Climate Risk Contract Valuation
  • P&L Management
  • Ticket Booking
  • P&L Reports
  • Daily & Expiry VaR Reports
  • Structuring Tools – Burn Analysis, Distribution fitting, correlation analysis, multi-model analysis, reverse pricing all supported
  • Super Exotics, inc hourly, strips, multi year, flexi and compound indices combining multiple weather variables all supported
  • Temperature-Gas Quantos

 

Middle Office Features
  • Mark-to-market / Mark-to-model
  • Risk management VaR
  • Credit Risk Reports
  • P&L Reports
  • VaR Reports (Expiry VaR, Daily VaR)
  • Regulatory reporting tools
  • Simulations
  • PCA / SSD analysis
  • Link to external pricing tools using Speedwell weatherML

 

Back Office Features
  • Full user Permissioning
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • Full trade lifecycle management
  • Batch processing of settlement calculations
  • Full auditing
  • Document management
  • View trades / confirm
  • Scheduled automatic risk report generation
What licences are available?

SES licences are available to cover the needs of small, specialist teams up to a full Enterprise Licence which covers the needs of a large organisation.

SES provides user permissioning allowing different users to be assigned access to different functionality.

 

What modules are available?
  • SES Data Manager and integrated database for Climate Data.
  • Front Office Climate Contract pricing tools.
  • Middle Office Portfolio Risk Management tools allowing the risk on a portfolio of Climate Contracts to be monitored.
  • Back Office Transaction Life Cycle Support components relating to managing the life cycle of a climate contract including trade reporting.
  • Invoice and Contracts Module: providing post trade functions relating to managing Climate Contracts.
  • weatherXchange® Integration components including Automated Pricing Service, APS.
  • RESTFul/WCF Data API to serve other desks

 

What are the installation / hosting options?

SES may be internally installed at the client’s data centre, at Speedwell’s data centre, or on the Azure platform.