Numerix tops the Structured Products Technology Rankings 2013

Technology vendors are having to respond as low interest rates and new volatility dynamics put the onus on innovation. Clive Davidson presents the results of this year's Structured Products technology survey. Research by Max Chambers

In many ways, structured products issuers are mediators, interpreting the needs of their clients, and weighing them against the often contrary realities of the market, then looking for innovative ways of reconciling the two. To make it even more challenging, neither element is constant - not the end-users, whose requirements, preferences and demographics are constantly evolving, nor the markets, which are subject to global and regional economic forces and political and social intervention in the