TS Imagine promotes Simarjit Johal to Head of Asia Pacific
“I am excited to unlock the massive growth opportunity within TS Imagine APAC. Throughout my time at the company, I have always had the right combination of freedom and support to make an impact — this rings especially true today and I am deeply grateful for this opportunity.”
TS Imagine has announced the promotion of Simarjit Johal to Head of Asia Pacific of the cross-asset class provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions.
Reporting to Rob Flatley, Chief Executive Officer of TS Imagine, Simarjit Johal will join the firm’s Executive Leadership Committee and relocate to Hong Kong when he assumes the role in September 2023.
Simarjit Johal joined TS Imagine seven years ago and has worked in numerous positions across the company including as a Product Analyst in Client Support, and as both EMEA and Global Head of Professional Services & Account Management. He was most recently Co-Head of Professional Services & Account Management.
He joined TS Imagine from Imperial College in London where he majored in Physics, and where he now plays an active alumni role mentoring and recruiting students who are pursuing careers in financial technology, according to the announcement.
“The region will thrive under his leadership”
Rob Flatley, CEO of TS Imagine, commented: “We are proud of our longstanding roots in APAC, which continues to be a key growth region for us. Sim is a well-rounded, cross-functional leader with the energy to serve clients and motivate employees, and we believe the region will thrive under his leadership.”
Simarjit Johal, Head of Asia Pacific of TS Imagine, said: “I am excited to unlock the massive growth opportunity within TS Imagine APAC. Throughout my time at the company, I have always had the right combination of freedom and support to make an impact — this rings especially true today and I am deeply grateful for this opportunity.”
TS Imagine has been operating in APAC for over two decades and has more than 60 employees in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney working across development, data, product, sales, professional services, account management, client support, finance, and human resources.
Earlier this month, TS Imagine announced the launch of TS One for investing teams seeking to drive alpha and scale their business as they navigate any asset class and market. The cross-asset class, SaaS-based solution delivers advanced execution management tools, risk management models, and comprehensive accounting software through a single intuitive interface.
TS Imagine launched RiskSmart X for prime brokers
Earlier this year, TS Imagine launched RiskSmart X, a configurable SaaS solution designed for prime brokerage and risk management professionals who need a real-time, comprehensive overview of their exposures across asset classes.
RiskSmart X is a sophisticated cross-asset class, real-time risk solution platform that comprises over 30 years of historical risk modeling expertise and best-in-class data management, within a packaged solution.
Prime brokerage and risk management teams can leverage RiskSmart X to observe and report their real-time risk analytics at any moment during the trading day, providing clarity to ease and accelerate decision making during both normal course and volatile market conditions.
TS Imagine goes into detail about RiskSmart X’s range of features and functionalities:
- Real-time risk analytics: Risk Smart X pairs vast swathes of market data from over 6 million instruments and over 100 markets, with users’ investment data, to deliver a clear view of all of their exposures as they occur. The platform’s analytics cover reference, security master, derived and pricing data to provide a holistic view of risk factors.
- Smart exposure: RiskSmart X factors Net Liquidating Value (NLV), risk sensitivities, Value at Risk (VaR), stress testing and margin considerations to present risk teams a comprehensive view of exposures.
- Historic modelling: The platform offers over 100 risk models, allowing firms to stress test their exposures across a variety of historic scenarios such as the Global Financial Crisis, Brexit, and the Dot Com Bubble.
- Scalability: RiskSmart X is already being used by several of the world’s largest prime brokerage businesses, and is designed with flexibility and scalability in mind, removing the need for cumbersome expansions to fill gaps as business expands.
In addition, the solution contains a few of TS Imagine’s signature features, such as:
- Multi-asset coverage: RiskSmart X leverages TS Imagine’s cross asset class expertise and provides a single view of exposures across asset classes including equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives and crypto.
- Seamless, continuous product evolution supported by TS Imagine’s technologists and data scientists: RiskSmart X’s SaaS architecture means that it is continually updated by TS Imagine’s global team of developers and data scientists, who ensure that users benefit from the latest technological innovation and that the data within RiskSmart X’s real-time analytics is consistent and high quality.
- Client perspective: TS Imagine’s global team blends the best global technology talent with former senior financial industry executives who bring a first-hand understanding of their client’s needs to product development, account management and client service. RiskSmart X is underpinned by TS Imagine’s global network of staff to maintain a highly available and secure service with 24/5.5 client support coverage in New York, Montreal, London, Singapore and Hong Kong.
