Q: What is Login strategy in the trading and risk management business?

A: Login's objective is to provide medium size banks and financial institutions with a global, complete and fully integrated trading, risk management, and back office system. We provide our clients competitive advantages through a highly flexible and cost effective solution.

Q: What are Acumen advantages?

A: Acumen is a fully integrated system, covering a wide range of instruments, and comprehensive front to back office functionality.

Acumen unique technology offers automation processes, helping our users to substantially increase their productivity and reduce user errors.

Q: How can you provide support to distant sites?

A: Our very first customer was located 1,500 kilometers away from Paris, and currently over 80% of our revenues is achieved with distant sites. We have set up very specific and proven procedures in order to provide high quality support to distant sites, even within different time zones.

Q: What is the typical implementation period?

A: A successful implementation project relies on a high degree of commitment from both the vendor and the client, requiring timely and adequate resources from both parties.

The implementation period obviously depends on the complexity of each project, and the resources provided by the bank.

Our system Acumen has been designed as a turnkey solution that requires a minimum implementation effort.

Q: Do you accept to undertake specific developments?

A: Yes. A software package rarely fits more than 90% of the requirements of a bank. We offer to undertake developments to satisfy our clients as much as possible. We believe that, in the long run, this policy strengthens our partnership with each of our clients.

Q: What is the product coverage of Acumen?

A: Acumen covers most commonly traded instruments in the forex, short term, fixed income, securities, exchange traded and OTC derivatives markets.

Q: Which platforms does Acumen run on?

A: Acumen is platform-neutral. Our clients run Acumen on Windows NT XP or  2000, with Sybase, MS-SQL Server or Oracle database management systems.

Q: How are security features handled in Acumen?

A: Each functionality or action in Acumen is subject to access rights and privileges. Each action on the database is fully logged, with the image before and the value after the change, in specific tables.