Open Source Risk Engine
The Open Source Risk project is a transparent, peer-reviewed, free-to-access framework for pricing and risk analysis. It serves as a benchmarking, validation, training and teaching reference and an extensive foundation for tailored risk solutions.
ORE is an Open Source Software project, designed for contemporary pricing and risk analytics of traded financial products. It was first released by Quaternion (a division of Acadia) as open-source software in 2016. ORE forms the foundation to many Acadia risk services, including IM Risk Generator.
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Following the 12th release of ORE, Acadia has set out a roadmap of contributions to the financial instruments covered. View the roadmap for the next four quarters here.
ORE’s analytics cover:
• Financial instrument valuation for a range of derivatives products and bonds across six risk classes (interest rates, foreign exchange, inflation, equity, credit and commodity).
• Market risk analysis, sensitivity analysis, stress testing, Value-at-Risk.
• Credit exposure simulation.
• CSA pricing and XVA calculation.
ORE is designed to be accessible to end users and provide:
• A simple command-line application with input/output files.
• Transparent interfaces for trade data, market data, system configuration.
• A detailed user guide with a large range of examples of ORE usage.
ORE is written in C++ and it is based on QuantLib, the “free/open-source library for quantitative finance”, which in turn depends on the Boost C++ libraries (http://boost.org). ORE provides a hierarchy of libraries for QuantLib extensions, data management and risk analytics which allow full extensibility. ORE’s SWIG language bindings facilitate integration of ORE with applications written in Python or Java.
Watch this short video to learn more about the Open Source Risk Project. Roland Lichters, formerly Co-Founder of Quaternion and now Co-Head Quantitative Services at Acadia walks you through ORE's history, project and analytics scope and demonstrates how to get started quickly with ORE.
Check out the ORE Academy for a full library of learning materials to discover all the possibilities within ORE.
