Agreement Express vs. Charles River IMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Agreement Express
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Agreement Express provides a solution to accelerate merchant boarding and drive scalable risk underwriting. The Merchant ScanXpress solution is designed for Wholesale ISOs, payment facilitators and ISVs to customize their scoring model based on their unique business needs across all merchant segments and the firm’s specific appetite for risk.N/A
Charles River IMS
Score 9.0 out of 10
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The Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) automates front and middle office processes for buy-side firms. The solution helps enable accurate and timely investment decision support for institutional and wealth managers, alternative investment firms, insurers and asset owners. Charles River IMS helps clients streamline operations, reduce risk, and improve reliability.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Cube
Cube
Score 9.8 out of 10

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Enterprises
BlackLine
BlackLine
Score 8.9 out of 10

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User Ratings
Agreement ExpressCharles River IMS
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User Testimonials
Agreement ExpressCharles River IMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Agreement Express
Agreement express is very well suited in places for multinational companies whose revenues are peaking and there are strong chances of encountering fraud along the way. While also being able to monitor each client with their overall scores and able to check for red flags. The Quickest KYCs and screenings come hand in hand with multinational companies for sure.
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State Street
If your are large asset management company focused mostly on interest rate products and you are large institutional trader your way is the use of Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics account which is most reputable custodian institution which offers superior tool for bonds trading - Charles River IMS. Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics is focused on large bond traders, so is not offered for small hedge funds. It is not appropriate if you are small account holder and focused more on stock market offerings, margin trading and less focused on custodian reputation. There is no separate risk module for trading group risk management.
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Pros
Agreement Express
  • the new clients can be onboarded within minutes and this stands out among other competitive applications
  • has ROI calculator within the website making it hassle free
  • Shows up risk flags of clients with special monitorX
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State Street
  • Focused on bonds
  • Risk approache based on counterparties risk measurement
  • Buid in scenario strategies and testing
  • CDS are available for trading (exlusive offering)
  • Portfolio construction
  • Yield analytics
  • Exotics: SWAPs, SWAPtions
  • Sophisticated options analytics
  • Currency forwards (exclusive offering)
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Cons
Agreement Express
  • Very recently they launched premium services of the application that seems overpriced but that won't be any bigger issue
  • I was not quite happy with the support team in overall but friendly team and coordinates well.
  • having control of the clients entire digital system seemed a bit too much but inorder to determine the score it becomes necessary.
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State Street
  • Equities - microstructure to consider detection of iceberg orders
  • Build in algos for large trades execution
  • Corporate or Banking level platform - not focused on mid sized business
  • SAP connectivity
  • Only Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics accounts
  • No trading group accounts capabilities
  • Needs arbitrage trading algo: spread, statistical, merger for stocks
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Alternatives Considered
Agreement Express
The one thing I loved about the agreement express over AuditGenius was the organization of loans to be audited, it is very organised as per the client and his portfolio and shows up flags while the AuditGenius has the list and seems very odd. But also in customer usage, I found many of my business partners using agreement express for the quick onboarding and also for ROI which indeed gave me a strong feeling about the application.
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State Street
Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics is a state of the art company which owns state of the art products Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics. If you are considering long term value, capital preservation strategy and pension funds management that is the right choice if holdien one account versus several to get systematic diversification. You can run even department of banks treasury with use of Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics. So good but focused on large investors needs and diversification focus.
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Return on Investment
Agreement Express
  • Although the premium version is recently released, have to recheck on prices for sure
  • ROI calculator really helped me get my work done
  • hassle free onboarding within minutes is a great takeaway in comparison
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State Street
  • Neutral. We are in system migration process.
  • We expect to get our P&L less volatile (+/- 5%). More international bonds in a mix
  • Top custodian is our first priority
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