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History of pdv Financial Software GmbH

1991
pdv was founded by a team of computer specialists, securities traders and financial markets experts.
1993
Development start of first modules of the DECIDE™ product family incorporating latest research from Hamburg University as well as other institutions regarding the modelling of decision-making processes in complex financial instruments.
1996
Launch of DECIDE™'s derivatives optimizer covering analysis, optimization and trading of exchange traded equity derivatives.
2002
pdv Financial Software joined newly formed C1 Group, the Hamburg based consulting and IT services company.
2002
Introducing the DECIDE™ trading and risk management front office. The new platform fully integrates the trading and the risk management process of exchange traded and OTC equity and interest rate instruments including derivatives.
2003
Lauching DECIDE™ for ASP - a multi client enabled platform for deployment within ASP environments.
2004
Release of DECIDE™ VaR - Value-at-Risk. The module allows for market risk calculations / limits for freely defined risk factor universes - including but not limited to the RISKMETRICS methodology and standard sets.
2006
Launching DECIDE™ for structured products. The innovative structured product module features a generic product composer and pricing engine that supports easy generic definitions of complex structures with single / multiple underlyings across asset classes.
2007
Introducing DECIDE™ ETH - the MiFID compliant order management and smart order routing platform that supports the standard MiFID best execution policies as well as order-by-order best execution policies based on real time aggregated order books of exchanges and MTFs.
2007
DECIDE™ ASP - all modules of the DECIDE™ product family are offered to the market as application services offered by pdv and hosted by Deutsche Börse Systems AG.

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