The hedge fund's Director of Research says: "OpenGamma were the only ones to provide a library with market standard analytics with full source code transparency and APIs we could use to seamlessly embed the analytics within our custom infrastructure. OpenGamma understands that these types of models should be standard and they make the code externally consumable at every level and fully open to self-evaluation. We have not encountered any other vendors who met these requirements."

The risk library, called Strata, provides state-of-the-art market standard analytics, including algorithmic differentiation throughout, for cash and derivative products. The analytics have been fully validated against all CCP models.

Strata is released as a Java library (for developers) and is also accessible through an Excel add-in (for business users). The open source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/OpenGamma/Strata), including developer examples. Comprehensive documentation is available on the Strata project website (http://opengamma.github.io/StrataDocs/).

"We are in an unprecedented time in the fixed-income markets, with the 'new normal' of negative interest rates and bank balance sheet contraction making alpha-generation in this asset class exceedingly difficult," says Mas Nakachi, CEO of OpenGamma. "In parallel, given the trend towards simplification and standardization of fixed income, there is a tremendous opportunity for the hedge fund industry to benefit from standardized, open source analytics, which provide full transparency and cost efficiency."