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SunGard launch: SunGard Capital Markets has launched its Panorama global risk management system in the US.

The new risk product was launched in Europe last year. It includes a suite of analytics running under Microsoft Windows NT workstations, together with a Unix or NT-based data warehouse.

Panorama's analytics include cashflow profiling, hedge equivalence, scenario analysis, derivative ladders, value-at-risk and stress testing.

GE at Hypo: Germany's Hypo Bank has gone live with the RXM risk exposure monitoring service developed and marketed by GE Information Services.

According to vendor officials, Hypo is using RXM to control risks on money market, foreign exchange and derivatives trading.

The system covers Hypo offices in Germany, the U.S., Austria, the U.K., Luxembourg and Hong Kong, tracking around 22,000 transactions per month, they add.

JPM swaps: Sources say JP Morgan has decided on in-house technology to support its London swaps back office operation.

The bank had been trialling its internal technology team against software from Infinity Financial Technology.

RiskMetrics: Separately, JP Morgan has released its latest update newsletter on its RiskMetrics value-at-risk service.

According to RiskMetrics Monitor, new features in the service include an add-in for Microsoft Excel that accesses RiskMetrics data. This add-in can be downloaded from JP Morgan's web site http://www.jpmorgan.com.

Object inspector: Object Design, developer of the ObjectStore object-oriented database system, has announced another extension to its product.

ObjectStore Inspector allows developers to browse and edit ObjectStore data objects via a graphical user interface.

The new add-on is already available on Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows NT platforms, say vendor officials. Unix versions will roll out throughout this year.

Object store inspector will increase the simplicity of managing object-based applications for end-users, says James Beagle, vice president of Object Design.