Our Services
Operational excellence, from trade to custody.
Focused advisory across post-trade operations, clearing, custody, and wealth management — scoped to what actually moves the needle.
Key Focus Areas
Where we spend our time.
What We Do
Five focus areas, one accountable team.
Post-Trade Processing
From execution to settlement and servicing: the operational plumbing that has to work every day.
- Clearing & settlement — CCP connectivity, settlement cycle changes (e.g., T+1), DVP/RVP processes, failed trade management
- Reconciliation — trade, position and cash reconciliation design, exception management, break reduction
- Collateral management & margining — collateral usage, initial/variation margin (post-UMR), tri-party arrangements
- Reference & static data — instrument, counterparty and legal entity data governance
- Trade confirmation & matching — affirmation workflows, matching platform selection (e.g., DTCC, CTM)
- Regulatory reporting & settlement discipline — EMIR, MiFIR, Dodd-Frank, SFTR, CSDR, penalty regimes and cross-border harmonization
- Platforms & automation — system selection and implementation (e.g., Broadridge, SmartStream), STP optimization, cloud migration of post-trade infrastructure
Middle Office Optimization
Making the space between the front office and settlement faster, cheaper and easier to control.
- Trade lifecycle design — capture, enrichment, validation and hand-off to settlement
- Target operating model (TOM) — design for post-trade and middle-office functions
- Sourcing strategy — build vs. buy vs. outsource, managed services, vendor selection and contract negotiation support
- Cost-to-serve — analysis and efficiency benchmarking
- Exceptions & automation — predictive fail analysis and anomaly detection in reconciliation
- Controls & resilience — operational risk frameworks for settlement and clearing risk, business continuity, internal audit support
- M&A — due diligence and post-merger integration for post-trade operations
US Treasury Clearing
The SEC’s U.S. Treasury clearing mandate changes how cash and repo trades are cleared and margined. We help firms work out what is in scope and what has to change.
- Scoping — which cash and repo trades, counterparties and exemptions fall under the rule
- Readiness assessment — gaps measured against the SEC’s phased compliance dates
- Access model — direct membership vs. sponsored or agent clearing routes
- Operating model change — trade capture, confirmation, settlement and fails management for centrally cleared trades
- Collateral & margin impact — funding, margin methodology and liquidity effects
- Platforms & connectivity — vendor selection and CCP connectivity
Digital Custody
Safekeeping and servicing across traditional and tokenized assets.
- Custody & asset servicing — corporate actions, income collection, proxy voting, safekeeping operations
- DLT/blockchain for settlement — tokenized settlement and atomic DVP
- Digital asset custody — operating model and controls, and integration with existing custody platforms
- Platform modernization — custody platform selection and implementation
Wealth Management
Operations and technology for wealth platforms, where service quality and cost control meet.
- Wealth operations model — from onboarding to servicing, and where each activity should sit
- Platform selection & implementation — wealth, custody and asset servicing platforms
- KYC/AML integration — operational integration into onboarding and servicing workflows
- Data & reporting — client, position and cash data quality
- Post-trade integration — connecting wealth platforms to clearing, settlement and custody processes
Not sure where to start?
We start with a conversation, not a proposal — tell us the problem and we'll scope what's actually needed.
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