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Application Networks

former software company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ19647851
Source-derived summary

Application Networks Inc. (AppNet) was a Palo Alto–based company, provider of JRisk, a packaged financial risk management software to use on-premises or as part of cloud computing environments. Its customers included global banks. Banks used JRisk for the risk management of their portfolio of securities, OTC contracts and financial derivative transactions.

Application Networks Inc. was acquired by Reuters in June 2006.

References

"Application Networks". Incisive Media.

Gregory, Jon (2003). Credit Derivatives edited by Jon Gregory.Risk books.

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“Application Networks” enters the record as former software company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Application, Networks and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Application, Networks and former.
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“Application Networks” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Application, Networks and former provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19647851. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from Application Networks” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.