Solutions for financial markets

IBM analytics and trading solutions help financial institutions address the exploding information tsunami so traders can respond to market opportunities that fuel sustainable growth.

Basel II can help banks and financial markets firms strengthen risk management and capital allocation strategies to yield significant long-term benefits. But the high cost of compliance, combined with a lack of time, data and proper technology has been a significant challenge. IBM can help.

Align your IT investments with your business objectives. Minimize downtime and streamline recovery processes. Customers expect your organization to run without service interruption. Don't disappoint them. We can help with business continuity strategies and planning for high availability and recovery.

IBM clearing, settlement and depositories solutions provide a solid foundation to help financial services utilities and institutions meet today's market challenges.

Every business day, companies issue notices of events that affect their securities. Processing these corporate actions often involves manually-processed data in non-standardized format. The corporate actions solution from IBM can help provide an integrated solution for you and your clients.

Support the strategic goals of your bank with component-based transformation and reuse components across multiple processes.

IBM technology gives exchanges and trading venues high availability and scalability, helping to reduce costs and ensure 99.99999% uptime.

Support the core business of your exchange with a trading reference architecture designed to promote low latency and cost efficiency. Your trade environment requires dynamic performance capabilities and IBM has developed technology to support the high throughput and low latency needs unique to exchange business processes.

IBM financial crimes solutions can help you determine the right mix of detective and preventive controls to better manage events, and to combat financial crime activities.

Dramatic increases in specialized financial applications. Constantly changing messaging standards. Conversion to new applications or formats. Financial institutions face ongoing challenges to remain technologically competitive and provide cost-effective trade processing. IBM can help you manage the impact of these changes.

From front to middle to back office, IBM can help provide a single, consistent view of data across your firm with an enterprise data management solution customized for financial markets. Enhance your regulatory compliance, risk management, client reporting, cash and custody management, and corporate governance capabilities.

Process and service models from IBM can help financial markets firms transform core financial systems, ranging from front- to back-office functions such as trade processing, payments, corporate actions processing and securitization. Meet tomorrow's demands today and align your IT plans with your business strategy.

IBM risk management solutions can help financial companies address increasingly complex financial risk.

IBM Rational® software and services can help you optimize application development and delivery within your company and externally. With IBM, financial services firms can establish effective governance to optimize development, support business needs, meet regulations and establish a balance between innovation and oversight.

IBM has a proven track record helping financial companies address complex governance and compliance projects.

Virtually all financial institutions have multiple financial messaging systems. These systems evolve at differing times and purposes creating process duplication. With payment systems representing a higher percentage of expense than revenue, financial institutions need a more efficient and enterprise-wide payments solution.

Are you effectively and efficiently preventing fraudulent activities? Our solution can help protect your reputation by preventing fraud to help you know and understand your current and potential customers, their relationships with each other and your employees, complementing your existing transaction monitoring systems.

IBM IT and infrastructure risk solutions include a range of capabilities throughout the operational risk management cycle, including assessment and planning, design, implementation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and ongoing management.

Where is your infrastructure's weak spot? Availability and recovery? Facility power and security? Change management? Most financial organizations struggle with these and more. IBM can systematically diagnose root causes of risks, and prescribe actions to reduce risk and improve resilience.

Phishing, Trojan horses, identity theft. Do you have the processes and technologies in place to safeguard your systems, applications and information? IBM can help you deal with risk across your extended enterprise. Protect information assets. Pursue new business initiatives securely. Prevent problems before they occur.

IBM can help you gain fast, scalable and flexible access to market data to seize competitive advantage for your financial markets firm.

IBM offers effective master data management solutions that can enable long-term financial market success. A single source of trading data can improve compliance, efficiency and CRM.

Leverage risk management for profitable growth. Enable compliance. Improve your reputation. Maintain flexible, resilient systems. Support business continuity. Turn to IBM to effectively support financial institutions’ processes and systems to manage and control operational risk and turn it to your advantage. IBM can help.

Streamline. Online. Improve the accuracy and speed of your payments systems. Increase your volume of business easily. Manage the growing complexity of your customer bases. IBM can help. Reduce costs by automating payments from start to finish. Offer your customers online payment options. With full security and tracking. Meet government requirements.

Does your business need help integrating post execution processes? From trade matching on the exchange to settlement, the post execution process solution from IBM can help you prepare and streamline—including the confirmation process, asset allocation, collateralization, prefunding and financing.

IBM sales and client services for financial markets can enable near real-time access to customer information and data to help increase profitability and drive growth in high-velocity trading.

Maximize front office efficiencies. Enhance information sharing across your enterprise. Streamline your business processes with IBM software and consulting services. We can help you integrate customer intelligence, market data and research information for greater efficiency across your organization.

Escalating call times and volumes, high staff training costs and inconsistent, slow service can all lead to frustrated customers. IBM and KANA can help your organization extend the value of your current CRM system to provide exceptional customer service at a lower overall cost by focusing on service resolution management.

IBM trade and order management solutions can help you compete globally while reducing transaction costs. Improve order- and trade-flow throughout internal and external processes.

Maximize trading efficiencies. Enhance information sharing across your enterprise. Streamline your business processes with IBM hardware, software and consulting services. We can provide support for different pre-execution trading applications for a fully automated order capture and execution environment.

IBM trade processing solutions enable enterprise-wide trade lifecycle management, including transaction monitoring, derivatives integration and business process automation.

Effectively manage risk exposure and reduce costs by quickly identifying and resolving failed trades. Transaction monitoring and exception management from IBM can help streamline the process for handling exceptions throughout a trade's lifecycle, which can account for more than 50% of back-office costs.

Payments make up a large portion of your expenses. But processing costs offset revenue generated from the related fees. Complex payment systems. Manual intervention. Disparate information sources. These are the problems. IBM can help you streamline processes to reduce costs, improve service, build a competitive advantage.