About

Altaira is a multi-asset class portfolio system for front-to-middle-office trading and risk-management. Altaira features the following:  
•100% Microsoft® .NET and C# for rapid application development and easy maintenance
•Microsoft® Silverlighttm for an amazingly rich client interface, either web-based or locally hosted
•Grid computing for outstanding performance and virtually unlimited scalability (scale-up, scale-out)
•Web services for both cross-platform interoperability and full extensibility
•Three-tiered architecture allowing any component (presentation, logic or data) to be upgraded or replaced independently
 
Some of the financial asset classes Altaira supports are listed below. Altaira uses market-standard (public domain) and open-source1 models by default, but many more can be supported with the client's choice of proprietary or third-party2 models.

•Bonds:
◦Convertibles
◦Corporates
◦Floaters
◦Municipals
◦Treasuries
◦Zero Coupon, etc...
•Caps/Floors
•Credit (Credit Default Swaps)
•Equities
•Futures
•Options:
◦Equities
◦Futures
◦Listed, OTC, etc...
•Swaps:
◦Fixed/Fixed, Fixed/Floating, Floating/Floating
◦Asset
◦BMA
◦CMS, CMT
◦Currency, etc...
•Swaptions:
◦American, Bermudan, European
◦Embedded caps & floors
•Misc:
◦Contract for Difference
◦Money Market

1 e.g., ISDA [JP Morgan] CDS Standard ModelSM, Marketcetera, QuantLib, Wilmott, etc...
2 e.g., Numerix, etc...

Altaira uses Microsoft Silverlight which delivers an engaging experience through all major browsers on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux client operating systems, and can run on mobile devices such as Windows Phone 7, Nokia Series 60.  It hosts a sleek graphics system for rich internet applications (RIA) with support for advanced data integration, multithreading, HD video using IIS Smooth Streaming.   Silverlight enables both online and offline applications for a broad range of financial applications