Using Strategic Partnerships to Geographically Cross-Pollinate Best Practices Back Into the Client Organization

One of our global clients in the financial services space is a leading Wall Street investment bank. Our engagement with this firm commenced in 2003 with the detailed historical review and reconciliation of one of their large legal derivative contract portfolios. As a result of our deep knowledge base and unique delivery model, the relationship quickly expanded, across different product types as well as a variety of front, middle, and back office support processes. Today, our support processes for this firm include historical legal contract review, derivative cash flow confirmation and issue resolution, reference data maintenance, legal contract drafting and review, inter-system reconciliation (both to internal and external platforms), industry specific reporting, onsite consulting engagements, and finance and control audits.

The following chart illustrates the progression of our service relationship across time –
 

Client
Functions

Markets

Portfolio Optimizations

Portfolio reductions using set-off/close-out algorithms

Corporate Action Monitoring & Analysis on Traded Securities

Analysis of corporate actions
Measuring impact on securities and derivatives transactions

Fund Performance Benchmarking

Reporting of fund performance against market benchmarks

 

Reference Data Research & Maintenance

Company names
Traded securities
Corporate actions

Sales & Marketing Support

Managing request for Proposals for Asset management companies
Mining and analyzing market data
Credit event support and management

Operations

Process Improvement & Optimization Studies

Trade Confirmations (Paper + Electronic medium)

Generation, verification & close-outs of financial contracts

Cash Flow Calculations

Derivative transaction payment calculations

Settlement Processing

Payment settlement with counterparties
Error resolution

Trade Bookings

System entry of trades into trade systems
Verification data against reference and trade data

Trade Affirmations Transaction verification of with counterparties

System Migrations

Data migration programs
Parallel bookings and checkouts Risk checks

Process Documentation

Gap analysis and workflow documentation of banks’ internal trading processes

Metrics

Error trending
Systematic issue resolution
Day to day status
Competitor benchmarking

Risk Management

Portfolio Matching

Matching of trade portfolios
Fund allocations
Portfolio risk reporting

 

Overnight Trade Reconciliations

Trade data reconciliations
Broker / sales ticket reconciliations

Legacy Contracts Review

Complex confirmation review
Transaction benchmarking
Trend analysis

 

Finance

Profit & Loss Explanatory

Profit and loss reporting
Analysis of price moves

Monthly Trade Valuations

Positions valuations reporting

Structured Product Review

Detailed review of trade terms against internal booking legal contracts

 

Legal

 

Documentation of Legal Contract

Drafting new relationship agreements
Maintaining accuracy of internal systems’ data inter-linkages

 

 

 

 

Analytics

Operations Management

Audits and Reconciliations

Reporting / Metrics

 

 

             Our Core Competencies