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Post execution process solution from IBM
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The goal
Improve the post execution process
Manual trade processing and repair. Inefficient communications with affirmation services and custodians. Complex trade processing systems and infrastructure. These issues can limit a financial markets firm’s ability to grow while creating unnecessary financial risk. The post execution process solution from IBM can help you improve efficiency while reducing the associated costs.

The advantage
A collaborative partnership
IBM has a long history of helping to ensure success in the banking, insurance and financial markets industries. Whether it's improving quality, reducing development time, automating manual processes, meeting compliance standards or transforming legacy systems, we can help your succeed with our:
  • Partnerships with best-of-breed ISV partners, for all aspects of the trade lifecycle.
  • Ongoing innovation—IBM launched the world's most powerful privately owned supercomputer, the Watson Blue Gene system (BGW), which can help to develop and run advanced mathematical algorithms for a variety of client problems. For example, BGW provides the power to track and analyze world financial markets in support of global risk measurement and management.
  • Consultants dedicated to the financial services industry—more than 7,000 in 160 countries.

The benefits
A sound platform for development and growth
In addition to improved automation and efficiency, the post execution process solution from IBM can also help you:
  • Reduce human intervention while improving accuracy.
  • Provide up to the minute trade settlement status.
  • Minimize trade failures and operational risk.
  • Limit the potential for unauthorized access to high value transaction data.
  • Improve customer satisfaction and service levels, while minimizing cost.
  • Increase settlement efficiency and transaction processing capacity.
  • Reduce trading churn to competing exchanges.
  • Improve straight-through processing rates.
  • More easily adapt to changing market, bank and regulatory requirements.

The approach
New institutional trading service
We have helped many of the top financial services organizations improve their post execution processes. A major portion of one specialist firm’s business involves the processing and clearing of equities trades. As a general industry rule, any institutional trader or hedge fund manager wanting to correct or cancel a trade needs to call and interact directly with another human being. This was an expensive and time-consuming process for our client and their partners, and frustrating for their customers.

IBM built a system to streamline their trading transactions across multiple disparate systems in the back office and on the Web, enabling the firm to:
  • Virtually eliminate manual intervention in the post execution process.
  • Provide better customer responsiveness and gain unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Benefit from lower costs and fewer errors.
  • Secure a higher market share and attract customers away from their competitors.

The financial advantage
Reduced operational risk and cost
By providing a common access and view of trading and operations data, we make it easier for our clients to improve their post execution processes and realize return on investment benefits. Our solution can help you:
  • Minimize trade processing and operational costs.
  • Reduce manual intervention.
  • Increase staff productivity—less data rekeying.
  • Reduce errors and operational risk, and their associated costs.

Next steps
 
Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM Financial Services specialist.

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