Equinox Functionality Overview

High level overview of the Equinox functionality

Equinox User Documentation
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Supporting the transition to Sustainable Finance requires up-to-date data, relevant and trusted models and effective usable tools that are fully embedded in the organization. The Equinox platform is a cloud based framework that supports sustainable portfolio management activity using an entirely modern approach.

Equinox aims to make a difference by supporting all high level objectives of Sustainable Portfolio Management:

  • Provide portfolio information (help assess the current state of the portfolio) along important sustainability dimensions (current focus are GHG Emissions)
  • Help guide the origination of assets (help the formation of a future portfolio) with consistently embedded sustainability criteria
  • Improve the portfolio structure and reduce concentration risk expressing organizational objectives
  • Help implement and manage the risk appetite (setting and monitoring relevant risk limits)
  • Support the management of other financial and organisational objectives in a coherent and holistic manner

Specific Objectives and Use Cases

  • Support various forms of Energy Accounting on a portfolio basis using market standard practices (EECS, I-REC)
  • Support GHG accounting approaches of direct emissions on a portfolio basis (GHG Protocol for Corporates and Public Sector)
  • Support GHG mitigation analysis of sustainability oriented projects (GHG Protocol for Projects and Equator Principles),
  • Enable consistent Portfolio level GHG emissions attribution when managed emissions are indirect (such as financial portfolios and PCAF framework)
  • Enable Portfolio level GHG budget allocation approaches when financed emissions are indirect (PACTA framework)

Equinox Benefits

Powerful cloud infrastructure, modern databases, sophisticated algorithms and machine learning change how many organizational processes are carried out and Portfolio Management is no exception. The Equinox platform allows you to manage portfolios of financial assets and contracts using the best modern technologies.

With Equinox you can:

  • Use public or private cloud instances to deploy Sustainable Portoflio Management tools for maximum flexibility
  • Bring together Open Data, own Portfolio Data and powerful Risk Algorithms
  • Derive new insights using cutting edge visualizations

Developed with a Compliance-First Mindset

A compliant risk architecture has never been more important in the financial services industry. Compliance is not a box-ticking exercise but rather ensuring the organization has fit-for-purpose behaviors, processes and tools to fulfil its mission. In the context of Sustainable Portfolio Management compliance requires significant investment in data, model risk management and associated audits.

Equinox brings you right out of the box:

  • Transparently documented Linked Models
  • Provenance and tracking of Risk Data
  • Full Audit of Calculations

Highly modular and expandable to serve your needs for the foreseeable future

Piping

A Flexible and modular architecture based on the groundbreaking Open Risk API. An open standards based architecture is a pre-requisite for evolvable digital infrastructure that adapts to user requirements rather than the other way around.

Equinox allows you to:

  • Connect databases and model servers to meet evolving portfolio management challenges in a
    scalable and future-proof way
  • Integrate your existing systems and tools through well defined semantic API's

Integrate Open Source Libraries

Modern Cloud Infrastructure is based on open source technologies like Linux. Powerful model databases like mysql, postgres are open source. Machine learning is developed around open source communities (pytorch, tensorflow). These macro developments of how digital infrastructure develops help reshape also how risk management and portfolio management is pursued.

Leverage the enormous power of the open source movement to reshape your SPM operations:

  • Benefit from our growing collection of Open Source Risk Models
  • Extend Equinox with your (or third-party) Open Source libraries

Get in touch to explore how Equinox can help you reach your Sustainable Portfolio Management objectives!

Send us an email at info@openrisk.eu