Capital Markets

Our Capital Markets consulting practice specializes in business consulting and systems integration services to support the needs of asset managers, institutional equity and fixed income trading groups, custody, clearing and settlement.

We specialize in providing comprehensive solutions for automating the trading process from trade inception through clearing and settlement.

Over the last year, we have seen resurgence in client spending on Straight Through Processing initiatives. A number of market forces have contributed to this acceleration:

• Regulatory changes are driving increased investments in more robust pre- and post-trade compliance solutions
• Increased trading volumes
• For global firms, demonstrating strong market and operational risk management controls in compliance with the Basel II accord
• Industry adoption of common message formats is enabling greater information exchange amongst investment managers, custodians
• Maturation of industry utilities for trade matching and corporate actions event notification, and security master indicative data
• Continued focus on improved cost control and operational efficiency

Our solutions are tied to three key areas:

1. Achieving Straight Through Processing – enabling firms to reduce costs, operating and market risks
2. Achieving economies of scale and reducing operational risks associated with corporate actions event notification, distribution and processing
3. Improving reference data quality associated with client, counterparty, security and corporate actions event masters. Enabling enterprise solutions which address data acquisition, management and distribution of reference data