We are pleased to announce that Beacon has agreed to make its valuable platform available to the University of Colorado Boulder. Our students and scholars will benefit from this platform for analysing financial markets and develop and run analytical algorithms.
What is Beacon?
Beacon is a financial technology company that delivers a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With Beacon's open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, our clients can build in-house functionality on a platform that has been proven at some of the largest financial institutions in the world. We give financial and quantitative developers the tools they need to be as productive as they can be, so that they can focus on the business rather than plumbing and process. And for business users, we deliver fully integrated applications for analytics, pricing, risk management, and much more. For more information visit https://www.beacon.io/
Who uses Beacon?
Insurance Companies. Beacon enables insurance companies to modernize their technology for best-in-class risk management, portfolio management, and asset/liability management. Leveraging our experience in building and deploying enterprise technology at some of the largest and most successful financial institutions in the world, we designed Beacon to provide the right blend of rigorous controls, agility, and scale.
For more information on Insurance, please see: https://www.beacon.io/insurance-companies
Commodity Traders. Beacon provides commodity traders with a suite of unrivalled powerful end-user applications built on top of Beacon Standard and combined in a single comprehensive toolkit. Leveraging our experience in building and deploying enterprise technology at some of the largest and most successful financial institutions in the world, we designed Beacon to provide the right blend of rigorous controls, agility, and scale. For more information on Commodities, please see: https://www.beacon.io/commodity-traders
Investment Banks. Beacon’s precursors include the proprietary platforms at some of the largest and most successful financial institutions in the world: SecDB at Goldman Sachs, Athena at JP Morgan, and Quartz at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Leveraging our experience in building and deploying these platforms, we designed Beacon to provide the right balance of rigorous controls needed in today’s regulatory environment and the flexibility needed to run a dynamic, quantitatively-focused market-making business. Unlike most vendors, who offer “black boxes” that cannot be extended on demand, we give clients access to our source code so that they can respond to business needs quickly in a controlled, collaborative, and scalable environment. For more information on Investment Banks, please see: https://www.beacon.io/investment-banks
Commercial Banks. Beacon offers their clients a unique framework that combines a powerful technology stack, advanced components for data science and bank-centric model development as well as seamless integration with business, model risk management and other firmwide processes. Leveraging our experience driving all aspects of such initiatives at some of the largest and most successful financial institutions in the world, we designed Beacon to provide the right blend of rigorous controls, agility, and scale. For more information on Commercial Banks, please see: https://www.beacon.io/beacon-banking
Asset Management. Data management, pricing and analytics are critical for all modern asset managers, whether their portfolios are comprised of vanilla securities or complex derivatives. Beacon is designed to empower the quants and data scientists who build these tools, providing portfolio managers with a competitive edge, allowing for adaptation to a rapidly changing business environment, and to better serve their clients. Leveraging our experience in building and deploying enterprise technology at some of the largest and most successful financial institutions in the world, we designed Beacon to provide the right balance of rigorous controls, agility, and scale. For more information on Asset Management, please see: https://www.beacon.io/asset-management