The two fintech companies have teamed up to leverage artificial intelligence across pre-trade activity.

ASN Tech, the fintech multi-issuer platform based in Lisbon, has entered into a strategic partnership with AI-driven risk/reward analytics provider IVM Markets.

This integration is an important step toward making the pricing of structured products more intelligent and transparent - Emilio Sainz de Baranda, ASN Tech

The two companies have reached an agreement to collaborate and integrate IVM’s pre-trade thematic basket upside and risk optimisation engine into ASN Tech’s multi-issuer pricing tool.

This integration will enable users to design, risk-screen, back-test and price across thousands of thematic equity or ETF/Index baskets in seconds resulting in a risk-reward mapping.

The partnership is aimed at “empowering complex decision making within a single, intelligent workflow, reducing time-to-market and improving both price competitiveness and investment outcomes”.

“This integration is an important step toward making the pricing of structured products more intelligent and transparent,” said Emilio Sainz de Baranda (pictured), CEO of ASN Tech. “By combining ASN’s multi-issuer pricing capabilities with IVM’s optimization, risk metrics, and stress testing tools, we’re empowering distributors to make better decisions, faster.”

The partnership will also link IVM’s AI agent - trained on over one million structured product strategies, growing by 200,000+ per month - into ASN’s multi-issuer pricing tool and lifecycle management platform.

The IVM AI agent proactively suggest new ideas or rollover ideas for matured or autocalled products, drawing from historical performance, client behaviour and current market thematics.

 “IVM is redefining structured product decision-making,” said Justin Sangster, commercial director at IVM Markets, adding that IVM’s AI doesn’t just generate ideas as it runs Monte Carlo stress tests, risk metrics and backtests to surface optimal, compliant baskets.

“With our upcoming integration into ASN’s lifecycle tool, we’ll also enable post-trade rollovers that are timely, personalised, and data-driven. This is about scaling human expertise with machine intelligence—at every stage of the product lifecycle,” said Sangster.

The integrated solution is currently in development and expected to be released later this year. A follow-up announcement will be made once the functionality becomes available to clients.

Esther Delgado, chief product officer at ASN Tech noted that the partnership is part of the company’s current focus on “technical development which includes a recent major revamp aimed at improving user interface to make the platform “more user-friendly and transparent”.

“We are taking advantage of our ability to minimize bureaucracy, integrate with partners like IVM fast and deliver new products and functionalities,” she told SRP.

Eric Glicksman, president IVM Markets, USA, also highlighted the advantages for technology development when transitioning from a large corporation to a more agile environment.

“This gives us the ability to quickly reprioritise based on critical growth opportunities,” said Glicksman. “Being flexible and responsive, enables faster development to meet client demand compared to traditional corporate structures.”

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