Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. Selects Vichara's V* CMBS/CRE Solutions for Trading, Risk Management and Deal Flow Management

NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vichara Technologies, a global capital markets technology firm, announced today that Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. has adopted Vichara's V* CMBS/CRE Solutions, a highly scalable, transparent and customizable system that provides surveillance, trading analytics, and enterprise risk management of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other commercial real estate investments.  

V* CMBS/CRE Solutions (pronounced "V-Star") facilitates better-informed trading decisions and effective management of risk exposures on a large portfolio of CMBS investments, using complex and rigorous loan-level modeling under diverse economic scenarios.  The system also enables tracking of deals in different stages of the investment process.  The platform offers:

• High performance computing of CMBS analytics under multiple scenarios for large portfolios using very granular loan-level modeling.  The system's grid- and cloud-based cash flow analytics engine leverages proprietary loan-level credit models.
• High performance data management  that integrates data from multiple data sources, including Intex Solutions, trustees, internal underwriting teams, and others.
• A web portal that provides instant access to a variety of analytics and loan-level data, ranging from up-to-date delinquency and watch-list statuses to historic income statements for underlying properties.
• Efficient deal tracking and document management for direct commercial real estate (CRE) investment opportunities using Microsoft's Dynamic CRM.
• Cloud and grid management framework, with support for the Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Windows Azure platforms.
• Highly customizable web-based analytical portal and reporting framework.

"We are very pleased to have been selected by Oaktree, a leading investment firm, to help support its commercial real estate investment business," said Atul Jain, CEO of Vichara Technologies. "Our V* CMBS/CRE platform has been designed to offer unparalleled computational, data management, and customization capability to institutional commercial real estate investors. We look forward to working closely with Oaktree to continually tailor the platform to meet their changing needs and support their rigorous investment decision-making process."

Vichara Technologies

Vichara Technologies is a capital markets technology firm specializing in systems that support the trading of fixed income securities and derivatives. Vichara's V* (pronounced V-Star) platform focuses on valuation, analysis, and data management for various fixed income securities and derivatives, including RMBS, CDOs, CLOs, CMBS, bonds, whole loans. Vichara designs, implements and customizes enterprise systems for securities trading, portfolio management, asset securitization, risk management, e-finance and financial operations. Vichara also helps clients manage and transform their IT and software infrastructure through consolidation, integration, automation and virtualization. The firm has offices in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. To learn more, please visit http://www.vichara.com.

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